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Thread #59418 Message #2801933
Posted By: Rapparee
02-Jan-10 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
No, seriously. My friend (who I would rather not name) was visiting London on business and was talking to a young business woman in the lobby at Claridge's, and in discussing various subjects the young lady mentioned that very recently she had been chatting with Winston Whats-His-Nam -- "Mr. Penelope Rutledge, you know who I mean." Seems he'd put the moves on her, telling her that he was "so sick to death, now that his beloved wife had died."
Well, she didn't fall for THAT line and extricated herself graciously from someone she described as "a sloppy drunk who had become all hands."
She is, by the way, the CEO of a major "global player" in the trade with China and was meeting my friend (another woman) regarding trade expansion with Canada, especially in computers and electronic equipment.