Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "
saying something like:

My apologies, I should have added "If you don't have any further
information regarding this particular proposal, please feel free to
have an inarticulate, bigoted rant on some barely related topic".

**** off, this is usenet. IBrants are the meat and drink of it and
provide entertainment for countless dozens out there.
It is not that I am defending the Queen, but have you not noticed that
only the ordinary peeps pay death duties, it is not just the Queen who
evades them, all the powerful people do as well, how else do they keep
their power? As they have the power behind the scenes the death duty
laws, enabling them to evade it will never be altered.