Thursday, 9 June 2005

Personal

No nukes then

The rumour — as I remember it — was of a nuclear bomb in the basement. Two months after Iraq invaded Kuwait I started college, in the building directly over the road from the Iraqi Embassy in South Ken.

The Kuwait Embassy stood perhaps fifty metres further south, and once the metal detectors and permanent Police presence started, there was no stopping the talk. There was much discussion of the college's new evacuation plans. Sparkies offered details about the suspiciously large 'television antenna' that appeared on the top of the Iraqi embassy, and someone from MechEng had seen a warhead being smuggled into the basement after a heavy night at the union bar.

The truth, it seems, is rather more mundane. As journalists chatter about this exciting discovery I just shrug my shoulders and ask, "is that all?".

Posted by pab at 12:44 | Comments will be back later in the year. Please email me instead!