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Lady of Letters
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*bangs head on desk repeatedly, again*
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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#462 |
Elf Lord
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Well, Gaffer, perchance those were Exeter twats with strong socialist leanings who ran the Empire?!
Sun-star, kindly discontinue the headbanging! It alarms the neighbors and may place sober, reliable celebrants of the end-of-term at precarious identity with wallbangers, bridgebangers, and other reputable bangers in Britiain! ![]()
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#463 |
The Intermittent One
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is there something wrong with people from exeter?
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#464 |
Elf Lord
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Could be Exeter College of course.
But yes, cease and desist the banging, you're waking the baby.. |
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The View from the Tater Patch
Since Hector asked, I bump this thread.
Since Labour won the General Election last year, two of the three party leaders have quit and Bliar has announced that he will step down before the next Election. So, Britain will almost certainly have a change of Prime Minister, but it will be chosen by the membership of the Labour Party rather than the electorate. And it is almost certain to be Gordon Brown. The only real question is when Bliar will choose to go. The Tories have a smarmy git of a new leader called David Cameron, a Nice Young Man who is doing rather well at being photogenic without actually saying anything substantive. However, he has got Labour in a bit of a lather as he might swing the gusset vote back to the Tories. However, Bliar got him right between the eyes at a recent Prime Minister's Questions. Noting how, in the space of one week, Cameron had described himself as a "True Blue Conservative" to the Daily Telegraph, a "Liberal Tory" to voters in the Dunfermline East constituency, and one other completely different thing which I can't remember, Bliar commented: "No wonder he's opposed to identity cards: he hasn't got one!" |
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smarmy git seems about an accurate assessment
do you know his new baby is called Arthur Elwin Cameron ![]() |
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I wanted to bump this thread just for that Tolkien-related tidbit:
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tory is right
labour is supposed to be left lib dem is centre |
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here, have some cheese ... it is very nice cheese ...
what better gaffer than some nice cheese, and some philosophy and intelligent political debate? watch out for The mexican btw ... ![]() ... so Gaffer and Hector (shame on you! ![]() also- at an educated guess, how many chins does John Prescott have now- and doesn't not declaring these put him in potential conflict with the priveleges commitee? best, BB |
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um .. i am eating some strawberry cheesecake ice cream at the momment, if that helps??
btw ..shame on you!! ![]() ![]() anyway gotta go watch David Attenboroughs new incredible HD series- Planet Earth. you lnow old davey now dontcha? ![]() (shame on you! ![]() |
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[short off-topic post, won't happen again, but chance was too good to pass up]
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I heart you Eärniel.
![]() Apparently Tony Blair is being investigated for allegedly selling seats in the House of Lords. 1. How would one go about selling the seat? I imagine it's not like buying a seat in an old movie theatre in order to restore it. ![]() 2. What the hey hey hey now!?
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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I would just like to say, I totally called this:
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. |
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Fnarg. Worrying. Do you think he's angling to stay on longer then?
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Most right-wing? A toss-up between the UK Independence Party and the British National Party. They former hate all foreigners, but especially Europeans; the latter hate everyone except Anglo Saxons. In the mainstream, the Tories are still significantly more rightwing than Labour. For all of Bliar's neo-Thatcherite poncing about, Brown has actually done some moderate redistribution of wealth on the sly while no-one was looking. However, you need to look deeper than the policies to tell them apart these days ![]() John Prescott only has two chins, but one of them has recently been designated a Site of Special Scientific interest because previously-thought extinct species of moss, lichen and a nocturnal polecat have been found nesting there. Here he is pictured when the team of zoologists broke the news to him: ![]() Here he explains his views on having night vision cameras installed in his lower jowls to monitor their behaviour. ![]() Last edited by The Gaffer : 03-29-2006 at 01:27 PM. Reason: Found a better picture of the Prescott left hook |
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I watched John Prescott on Deputy PMQs this morning, and there's really something charming about his bumbling. It's impossible to hate someone like that - he even referred to that egg incident again, and brought up the William-Hague-at-Tory-party-conference-aged-13 story.
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Yes, it is great to see you, Gaffer! We've missed you a lot around here, lately.
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I totally agree. You can't help but feel affection towards someone who will stick two fingers up at the press and twat some countryside alliance eedjit right in the gob.
Mind you, I think that bloke would have had him if the Secret Service hadn't pulled them apart. How lovely of you both to say so. Just a fleeting visit for now. Back later hopefully. |
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