Someone should start compiling a 11 September Excuse Book, a volume of the trends and events now bei...
Someone should start compiling a 11 September Excuse Book, a volume of the trends and events now being attributed to that momentous day. We all know that America will never be the same, but did you realise that the collapse of the World Trade Center towers is behind the plunging productivity of window cleaners in Leeds, the state of the roads in Norfolk, and the deteriorating punctuality record of a printing firm in Plaistow? No? You should get out a bit more, then. From bricklayers to bridalwear outlets, businesses are shamelessly attributing their problems to 11 September, using the dis...
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