Douglas, Douglas, you've let us down. We have come to expect a daily
laugh as you (increasingly desperately) try to "prove" that petrol is
too cheap. We've had comparisons to the price of water, ethanol and
electricity, all of which were comprehensively demolished. You
provided a link to a Times article which you claimed said that petrol
is too cheap (it didn't). Yesterday, we had a link to a Guardian blog
which purported to show that petrol is not, by historical standards,
expensive. Unfortunately for you, when the author used the correct
figures, it showed that petrol is more expensive than at any time
since 1920.

Today, however, we have ... nothing. C'mon, Doug, have another go.
Perhaps you could explain that petrol is more expensive than liquid
gold. Or maybe you could prove that the sentences for stealing petrol
are lower than those for stealing other goods. We're waiting ...

Brian Whitehead hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

At the rate things are going, a litre of petrol will be more expensive
than a flat in Catford before long.

On 29 May, 18:45, Adrian gmail.com> wrote:

True. I'm sure there must be a good joke in there, along the lines of
Ratner's infamous "our jewellery costs less than an M&S prawn
sandwich, and lasts about as long", but I can't quite think of it.

Brian Whitehead hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

I'd rather have an M&S prawn sandwich than a flat in Catford.

Adrian gmail.com> wrote:

I'd rather have the dysentery that would follow the M&S prawn sandwich
than a flat in Catford.

On 29 May, 19:17, %%ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

Libel! But I like it ...

Brian Whitehead hotmail.com> wrote:

Believe me, if M&S want me to prove the effect that their prawn
sandwiches have on my bowels I'd happily shit on the chairman's desk.

On 29 May, 22:08, %%ste...@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:

Well, given that in a libel action the onus is on the defendant to
prove that what he said is true, you are probably safe!