The Commons looked at it only in standing committee; ruthless timetabling prevented any discussion by the whole House at the debate stage.
Other fans focus on timetables, standing beside the track in, say, Yazoo City, Miss., to chronicle what time the City of New Orleans passes through.
Of course, much else has changed since then – much else besides our 20-year-old peace process, that is – the electronic timetable for one (in the old days you were lucky to have a timetable of any sort), the smartphones, on which, still standing at the bus stop, no bus in sight, I check the BBC Northern Ireland news website.
SNP leader Alex Salmond, who announced he was standing down after losing Thursday's referendum, has warned that the timetable for constitutional change is slipping.
SNP leader Alex Salmond, who announced he was standing down after losing Thursday's referendum, has warned that the timetable is already slipping because, he claimed, Mr Cameron could not guarantee that his backbenchers would vote for it.
No more standing in line at the airport; no more travelling according to someone else's timetable; no more getting into the same plane as beastly ordinary people.
Brent Wilkes, the national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, was standing with Reid on Thursday and said he understands why Democrats are not committing to a firm timetable.
For Labour, one worry is the short timetable to recruit enough candidates to fill the bulk of the 73-MEP slate, with 21 of the party's 25 existing MEPs standing again.
