Use The Adventure Game instead. It's an older show, so more gravitas will be generated, and you can refer to them as aspidistra clouds. Simple really.
No-one has vowed to carpet-bomb New Zealand yet. We need some love here.
On the bright side, Clinton did compare our prime minister to a cockroach and describe her as "former prime minister", so we're not entirely left out.
John Sitton made the same comparison about Leyton Orient fans in the celebrated documentary...
Although the cystal maze would probably have lasted longer that way...
Who and what is a Squeaky Fromme? Was he the author of The Art of Loving Your Whoopee Cushion?
no I think she was the brave soul who tried to off Reagan. I'm probably wrong though. I trace all this macho BS posturing to him but maybe it should go back to McCarthy -- a man who REALLY never should have left the back rooms of the gay bars.
Who and what is a Squeaky Fromme?
For that matter, who and what was Leslie Van Houten their pin up girl?
No posts, FR? I shudder to think what your work-load must be like. Surely you have some observations about this business of Boris Johnston suddenly having a real job, with real challenges that won't go away when he complains about political soundness.
Then I read in Sadly,No! that the US media are suddenly calling for an invasion of Burma on account of their inadequate response to a hurricane (all without mentioning the words "Katrina" or "New Orleans"). I'm not sure who is supposed to do the actual invading, since the US military is otherwise engaged. Perhaps they think that a renewed UK occupation of Burma would go down well with the locals... or perhaps an invasion from Thailand.
The only other possibility is that Time and Newsweek are not seriously expecting a benign military intervention, and their main motivation for speaking on behalf of a few hundred thousand dead Burmese is to salvage the general concept of humanitarian invasions -- to make up for the bad rep it received from that poorly-executed business in Iraq. In that case, however, given Chris Hitchens' negative feelings about ventriloquising the dead, I'm sure he would have had something acerbic to say by now.
In any case, if Hammer & Anvil won't give me the channelled opinions of George Orwell about occupying Burma, then where can I read them?
I shudder to think what your work-load must be like.
Precisely zero, since I've been on holiday... And that means a holiday from everything, I'm afraid. I've got several posts floating in the ether that closely resemble this one...
http://flyingrodent.blogspot.com...mmon-
sense.html
...Without the charm, precisely the kind of thing I so often take the piss out of, so I've been staying away from the computer.
Mind you, this Burma thing is pretty unbelievable, isn't it? Not the event itself, which is so godawful I can't get my head round it - the terrible, ambulance-chasing shits trying to crowbar the situation into their deranged worldviews. Certainly plenty of ammunition there for a few posts.
...if Hammer & Anvil won't give me the channelled opinions of George Orwell about occupying Burma
I wish - I certainly don't recall that many knob-gags in Orwell.
Incidentally, The Hammer & The Anvil is one of the metaphors that most pissed Orwell off, as he notes in his famous essay.
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