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Thread #16031 Message #147251
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
09-Dec-99 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: Shades of 'Yes Minister'!
Subject: RE: Shades of 'Yes Minister'!
If you can, get your hands on a paper edition. It's every bit as good, particularly if you've watched it on TV and see Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne in your mind's eye. But even without that, the characters and situations are so well drawn and seem to be taken straight from life. Our own German slush funds scandal makes me think of 'Yes Minister' quite often. All these wide-eyed, innocent boys, having the wool pulled over their eyes by each other ... I find, though, I have to read the episodes one at a time, the way they're meant to be on TV. Otherwise the effect wears off. - Susanne