Prozzie down

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge

Some of those perms are pretty challenging you know. Not easy to achieve
in one step. Champ probably draws up a project plan, Gantt charts, that
kind of stuff. Then gets someone else to actually apply the lotion.

It's progress. Of a kind.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

You're kidding. Have you any idea how many approvers have to sign off a
change in hairstyle?

 

<thinks about Champ getting someone else to apply his 'lotion'>

<pukes>

--
Krusty
www.MuddyStuff.co.uk
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'02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250

 

The future's bright; the future's Orange.

Never did go down that well as a slogan in certain bits of Belfast.

 

I think they originally called themselves Hutcheson here. Now back as
Orange

 

Well that was the company name back in their 'Rabbit' days. As one of
only a couple of hundred privat Rabbit subscribers I was offered a
refund or a subscription to their not-yet-launched cellphone network
when they finally decided to give it up for a bad job. It wasn't until
another year or so that they came up with the 'Orange' name.

--
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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
`

 

Hutchison Telecommunications was one of the original names of the
company, in general, not just in NI.

 

Indeed but they were already branded Orange on the mainland

 

Hutchison Whampoa, iirc, was the HongKong owner.

Ali

 

And now owners of 3.

 

Not related to Jardine Hutchison, were they? Also HK based.

 

Not sure. I never really got to grips with all those HK companies after I
stopped selling to Korea. (And I'm desperately trying to recall the Chinese
term for them. Arg.)

Ali

 

Jardine's were (are?) a very old HK company with their fingers in just
about every pie.
--
_______
..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
`

 

Jardine's were (are?) a very old HK company with their fingers in just
about every pie. Jardine Matheson, for example, was one of their older
concerns, and act(ed?) as P&Os shipping agents there for decades.

--
_______
..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
`

 

Started trading in opium, iirc.

 

They were, I believe, the model behind the Struan family/company as
depicted in James Clavell's Noble House novels, so yes, I suspect
you're correct.

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..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 (slightly broken, currently missing)
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2, IBB#10
`\|/`
`

 

Yup.

 

"Sold voluntarily" to China Telecom