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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (123026)	10/17/2009 10:34:24 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542154

My Brit friend thames_sider likes to embarrass me by pointing out he is to my left. I remember questioning a colleague at a talk he gave sometime in the late 80s about politics. I made some statements about my own politics as a preface. He interrupted me. Noted that my politics were to the right of some prominent British conservative at the moment. Forget just which. Certainly not Thatcher. I was more than a little stunned. And doubly so because it was a fairly public occasion. I insisted that my friend make the case for that assertion since it didn't seem to be even close to being true. He did. And I learned.