ooh! thanks!
Every few years or so I re-read "the cuckoos egg" which is his account of this incident (and contains a rather good recipe for chocolate chip cookies)

There is a german film I can't remember the name of which is based on the events at the other end of the wire. It's worth a look as well. I think it was called something like "26"

I'll see if I can dredge it out of the imdb somehow
( LP, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 10:25, Reply)

I was 3 out
www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/
( LP, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 10:27, Reply)

I will never forgive you
NEVER
(Ol' Ginger Bastard that ginger fuck, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 11:26, Reply)

it's ok
that one really isn't a horse link
( LP, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 11:34, Reply)

Sweet!
I'll be sure to check that out. Someone told me about it but I'd somehow managed to confuse it with a Jim Carey movie.
(syntactic, Sun 10 Feb 2013, 11:35, Reply)