(1) Any person who knowingly causes a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply to a nuclear weapon explosion carried out in the course of an armed conflict.
Here at the Ambiente Hotel we have always assumed that “Augustus Shoe” (sometimes written “Auguste Sabot” or “A Shoe”) is a communal nom de plume used by the Theory Cadre, whose handwritten communiques appear regularly on the noticeboard of the downstairs back bar.
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Sense of humour failure all round, if you ask me:
(1) Any person who knowingly causes a nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply to a nuclear weapon explosion carried out in the course of an armed conflict.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1998/ukpga_19980007_en_1
Hmm, I’ve been getting “augustus shoe” in my search strings this month. Presumably M John Shoe’s painterly nephew.
Here at the Ambiente Hotel we have always assumed that “Augustus Shoe” (sometimes written “Auguste Sabot” or “A Shoe”) is a communal nom de plume used by the Theory Cadre, whose handwritten communiques appear regularly on the noticeboard of the downstairs back bar.
Hence the title of Wren A Mammal’s seminal cottage graffiti sequence “Discarding Sabot”.
So I believe.