IRS?? That's American
AND it's Income Tax!!
No, dear boy - I was an Officer of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise and proud of it, until Gordon B****y Brown decided that he couldn't handle two revenue departments and allowed the scumbags in the Inland Revenue to take us over. I understand from former colleagues still under the yolk that under the new regime simply to mention the words "Customs and Excise" in the office is a disciplinary offence.
And as for a pint at lunchtime......
![Shocked :o](https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/Smileys/Tug/shocked.gif)
I'd not last a week!
A groat is still legal tender in the more remote parts of Lincolnshire. Mind you, they think that Elvis is still alive there.......
DM