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    The Great Gordino Newsletter - Issue 306 - Wed 23rd Mar 2005
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    Hi There,

    I hope your week is going well.
    I'm writing quickly today, as I'm shortly off into London to see
    the Mary Poppins musical.
    Let's hear you, all together now...
    'I've got a luverly bunch of coconuts'.
    Er, wait, hang on, no that's not from Mary Poppins.

    'Doe a dear, a female dear...'
    No, nor that one.

    'Happy talk, keep talking happy talk?'

    Oh bugger it, I'll tell you on Friday!

    When I had my recent computer crash, I lost bits and bobs.
    Nothing vital, as I had backed up most of it, but one thing I
    *did* lose was a list if ideas I had jotted down for newsletter
    material.

    I was reminded of one of them by my current election idea.

    I watched a documentary about a Danish businessman.
    Curt Stavis was sitting at home (in Denmark), and worked out
    that the England to France channel ferry crossing was per person
    per distance, about the most expensive ferry in the world.

    So, he decided, with absolutely no knowledge of the ferry
    industry, to start a cut price ferry service!
    He raised the money from his neighbours, and set about finding
    a ferry he could buy.
    His theory was that if he could make it work in the Channel
    crossing, he could make it work for any ferry crossing anywhere
    in the world.

    The documentary followed the early teething troubles, most
    notably that the engines failed on the maiden voyage.

    The more they investigated the boat, the more they realised that
    it was, in fact, knackered.

    They also had huge problems with the other ferry companies,
    with reports of plenty of dirty tricks campaigns.

    A year later, and a year spent living in a hotel room, with his
    office on the bridge of the ferry, Curt now feels he is finally
    making progress, and plans are to launch a second ferry later
    this year.

    Isn't that amazing?
    To just have the idea, raise the money, and set off to get it
    done!

    How many people might have the same idea, but just dismiss it
    as unreasonable, or too scary?

    It's not something I'd try, but good luck to him, I hope it
    succeeds.

    Ok, that's it for today, like I say it's a quickie, I'm off to sample
    the experience of public transport, and here's the thought for
    today - to follow your idea, how brave would you *really* have to
    be?

    'Til Friday,
    Health and Happiness,
    Gordon
    email me at gordon@gordonbryan.com - you'll have to copy and paste
    thanks to the idiot online spammers!



    
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