>  "Somebody named Paul O'Neill wrote the following (with apologies to W.S.
> Gilbert) and posted it at rec.music.opera.

Actually, I used to drink in the former home of W.S. Gilbert, in Harrow
Weald (Old Redding) - it is an Hotel, not very big but quite poshe. In the
days in the UK when drinking hours were quite ridiculous I would visit
there with a young lady when all the pubs were shut & pretend to be a
guest, so could drink all day & night (as long as the night porter was
awake !). It was also about 200m from the best Night Club in the south of
England, of which I was also a regualr visitor :-)

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