A phrase spoken in a mid 70s, mid-Atlantic accent which confirms the DJ as a total @&*%$£ and that you are not going to enjoy any of the remainder of the evening.

It did however pop into my mind whilst dealing with the latest two phone enquiries.

The first whisked me back to the days when firms wanted to expand, take on new contracts and were often genuinely positive about the future of Legal Aid. I remember an almost parallel situation to this one; firm wanting a civil contract in an area with insufficient supply being told that Legal Aid Stake-holders (eligible clients to you and me) could use irregular public transport to find a supplier at some distance. The current enquirers look like having their all too rare enthusiasm crushed by another act of bureaucratic idiocy.

My second act of time travel was not as far back in time and unfortunately involves a more common problem of recent history - autorecbots and contact reconciliation. There is a similar paradox here in that it involves mucking about a firm positively engaging with the post Carter agenda.

That the LSC does not have the foresight and flexibility to assist, or at least not to hinder, those firms willing to "row with them" remains one of the great mysteries of our age.