and in this case a new message is queued for transmission at the next slot.
Wearing the average-dad outfit of someone twice his age and singing with his hand in his pocket like he was queued for beer at a hockey game, he had the stage presence of a grump.
In Delhi, the national capital, where the shortage is most acute, consumers have been queuing for hours at government-run outlets to buy onions at subsidised prices.
The photographs show British people at their most happy and eccentric, whether that's queuing for Jaws at the Halifax Odeon or a group of men in a smokey room at Nasebottom Chapel having the annual general meeting of the "The Ancient Order of Henpecked Husbands".
Cars are queueing for hours at the dwindling number that still have fuel, but they are limited to about seven litres.
It is a bright, cold morning in London and hundreds of people are queuing for food at Coal Drops Yard, in King's Cross.
Locals are queuing for hours at reopened money-transfer kiosks to receive much-needed remittances from abroad.In this section Scrabbling for survival Wolf sheds fleece The almost-lost cause of freedom Reprints Related items Post-earthquake chaos in Haiti: A massive relief effort limps into gearJan 21st 2010The streets seem calm, and are now largely free of corpses and their stench.
And one thing the über-rich can't resist is a bargain, which is why they are queueing for hours at the White Cube stand to let Jake and Dinos Chapman doodle over the royal portrait on their fivers, tenners, 20s and 50s.
An estimated 300 people were queuing for food at the time of the blast.
Teachers are queuing for hours at the few banks that have opened hoping to receive their missing two months' pay.
