ViLco wrote:
> merryb wrote:
>
>> LOL- I have that book also! One of the lines cracks me up- a well hung
>> woodcock??
>> I wonder if all of those birds are still around.
>
> One is here in Italy and is a Public Prosecutor, Henry John Woodcock from
> Somerset (UK). Unluckyly for him, he often worked on crimes committed by
> politicians thus he found lots of obstacles on his way. In many occasions a
> case he was working on has been moved to other public prosecutors to stop
> his work, like the famous "VIP gate" case (regarding personalities from many
> political parties, finance, press, bureocracy...) which got moved to Rome
> where it got finally forgotten. Ops, pardon me, "archived". Rome's Courtroom
> is also known as "the foggy bay" where trials against politicians get lost
> forever, as in that case.
> He's a good PP and a good person, we need more people like him.

I gather the subject of his endowment will not come up....