Edwina Currie gives me a death stare

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About ten years ago I was in the queue in The Windmill Pub on Clapham Common, waiting to order lunch, when my brother-in-law, who was also queuing asked me what I was going to have. I replied by saying that I really fancied a curry. At that moment Edwina Currie, who was immediately ahead of me in the queue, turned around a gave me the most withering of looks
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:02:47 +0000Coincidence ID:5175