LINE NOISE News from Chez Diesel 1 August, 1988 An innocent-looking Pizza Restaurant became a temporary branch of Chez Diesel on Saturday night for the first-ever Fed Meet. About 20 people attended this historic occasion, which was presided over by Our Illustrious Leader and Traders Pugwash and Pegasus. As well as being the life and soul of the party, these three also ended up paying for most of the drinks (the significance of this cost - \42 - being a prime example of bistromathics). The guest list: Bella Pugwash Pegasus Zugger Bilbo Bullfrog Hawk Anthony Ranger Pony Fordprefect Piemur Jibbywabby Molly Matt Apologies were received from Traders Omi (on holiday), Cloudbase (leg in plaster), Toranaga (over-worked) and Linebacker (his wife wouldn't let him come). A few hangers-on who had been dragged along against their will spent the evening wondering what we were talking about! 20 pizzas, 37 portions of garlic bread, numerous bottles of Chianti and the obligatory chocolate fudge cake (with cream) later, the waiters finally lost patience with our insistence on having separate bills so the Meet moved to a nearby pub. By pouring even more wine into Bella, some really juicy Fed secrets were revealed, but unfortunately everyone else had also had far too much Chianti to remember them! Unlike Chez Diesel (Social Centre of the Solar System) which, due to a conveniently located time warp, is open 26 hours a day, the pub finally ejected us onto the pavement and we were forced to move the collective drunken haze back to the luxury penthouse flat in glamourous London Docklands where Trader Pugwash stays when she isn't Trading. I have been unable to obtain any coherent reports of what went on there apart from some strange rumours about Pegasus eating a cat, but I understand it continued until dawn, when the command was changed to ! For those of you who like taking part in this sort of thing, the next Fed Meet will be during the PCW Show in September, and there is talk of a Northern Fed Meet sometime towards the end of the year. Watch this space for details. .