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March 19, 2012
A claim
Rear-Admiral Sir John Forster Woodward describes the reception at his return from the Falklands in 1982.
“I wasn’t even properly debriefed. Nobody seemed to want to know.” The civil service had its own welcome. “Usually if you have been the victor in a major military event, there is some acclaim. Mine was 'a claim’ from the people who do the accounts, saying, 'We have been looking at your entertainment expenditure as admiral and observe that you haven’t spent anything over the last three months.
"So we have revised your allowance downwards and backdated it. You now owe us £600.’ That was my reward. I didn’t bother to say I had been entertaining the Argentinians.”
"So we have revised your allowance downwards and backdated it. You now owe us £600.’ That was my reward. I didn’t bother to say I had been entertaining the Argentinians.”
The important thing to understand about Monty Python is that it isn't comedy, it's documentary.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 19, 2012 05:57 AM