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Article: Better late than; answers to correspondents.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2002
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never QUESTION The excuse of a friend in Australia for replying late to an email was: 'We're very preoccupied acquiring a gold mine.' What other equally bizarre yet true reasons for lateness have other people been given?
TORY MP Boris Johnson, the 'blond bombshell', once apologised for his lateness in handing in work with the epic statement: 'Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.'
Had someone working for me apologised like this, I would have let them off.
Ian Kidd, secretary, Boris Johnson Fan Club, St John's College, University of Durham.
I WAS having a very hungover ...