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July 12, 2006
ACL and SCL
Following my comment yesterday about the Society for Closing Libraries (SCL), Mrs Sideloader, to whom the mysteries of the City are perilously exciting, was heard on the beach asking Mr Grimsdyke to explain the difference between the SCL and the ACL
"They are completely different" he rebuffed her advance, for it would have been an insensitive man who could not see the nature of her opening line. "The Association for Closing Libraries (ACL) is a group that meets the Minister, Mr Woolly Jumper and advises him which libraries to close. The Society for Closing Libraries (SCL) meets itself and decides which libraries to close. There is no connection between the two. Both groups have exactly the same members, for the sake of their own convenience, and to allow them to enjoy two sets of expenses. The same people are all, of course, on the board of SYRUP, the professional body, which allows them further constant international travel."
"But who would wish to go further than Bloggington beach?", she smiled at him as they sipped their strawberry milkshakes and enjoyed Mrs Picker's Winkles in the sunset.
"Quite"
Posted by Perkins at July 12, 2006 7:32 AM