<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Alison-</div><div><br></div><div>Could be worse. Imagine a gaggle of Americans with mattresses on their backs queueing at the VAT refund kiosk at Terminal Four (Heathrow). All clad in varying amounts of Basset Crap. No Bassets though, it probably still takes several months' administrative and veterinary amusement to even think of bringing a dog into the UK. Hawaii is similar. Still 'easier' AFAIK than bringing a pooch into OZ/NZ, where coming with foreign dogs is viewed as a causus belli (Act of War), slightly less so than actually launching strategic nuclear weapons at mutton.</div><div><br></div><div>I do recall seeing a British Airways ad offering cheap return tickets. Imagine a bunch of non-EC tourists telling a sleepy Immigration officer at the doG awful hour of 7am: "We've come to Britain for a cheap mattress offer holiday."</div><div><br></div><div>A dozen or more years ago, I lived with a woman named 'Alison'...she had such a time with people misspelling her name, I just called her "One-L".</div><div><br></div><div>Aaarrroooossss-</div><div><br></div><div>Charlie</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Alison wrote:</div><blockquote webmail="1" style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:verdana;" mce_style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px; font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:verdana;"><div >Someone in marketing at Sleepmasters is trying to figure out why they are getting a bunch of random hits on their website from America!</div>
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