[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:02:38 -0400, David Froble wrote:


>> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 17:10 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
>>
>>> Yes there was and still is a lot of rivalry between the US and British
>>> forces.   A tale I heard during the Russian occupation of Afgahnistan
>>> was that a Russian helicopter had been captured and US and British
>>> officials had a meeting to decide who got to take it apart.  I think
>>> the US won that round, but right at the end of the meeting the British
>>> said "Oh, you might find this helpful", dropping a full set of
>>> blueprints for the helicopter onto the table :-)
>> 
> Yeah, we're good at that ;-)
> 
> Definition "ally".  Only slightly less of an opponent than enemy.
> 
> Definition "enemy".  Only slightly more of an opponent than an ally ...

The programme "Yes Minister" comes to mind.

> Sort of like a DEC salesperson.  Loss of a sale to another DEC
> salesperson is only slightly less of a loss than loss of a sale to IBM
> ...   or not ...

Or interdepartmental rivalry and NIH. :-(

-- 
Paul Sture