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The chairman goes in search of his ideal partner

'What sort of qualities do you look for in an ideal partner?' I asked the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet as I delicately raised a pint of Granny MacLeod's 12-Bore to my mouth with my non-drinking arm. We were sitting in the back of The Chatham Rules trying to numb the pain generated by the previous day's exercise of shooting at clay pigeons and not hitting very many. 'Oh, you know, the usual,' replied the chairman smiling at the barmaid he'd talked into helping him drink his own pint so he didn't have to raise his arms at all. 'Stout liver, good ...

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