yeah, I have this strange feeling that we are approaching War and that it will be announced on December 2012

1984 is only 28 years off
Henry North London | Homepage | 12.28.08 - 4:35 am | #

Note to WAR: Bring your own beer!

Signed,

Y2K, The Mayan Calendar, The Galactic Alignment, Nostrdamus and The Antichrist
persnickety curmudgeon | Homepage | 12.28.08 - 11:44 am | #

England prevails.
Fellow Traveller | 12.28.08 - 3:00 pm | #

Did we blame the Black Death of 1348 on the Jews, when they'd all been expelled in 1290 ?
Laban | Homepage | 12.28.08 - 3:35 pm | #

Of course. You don't think that a little fact like the absence of any Jews on this island prevented them from being blamed for spreading the Plague do you?
Fellow Traveller | 12.28.08 - 3:44 pm | #

Well, yes, actually. Any evidence to the contrary ?
Laban | Homepage | 12.28.08 - 6:22 pm | #

(I'd have blamed the Scots myself. But according the Philip Zeigler's book they were massed on the border, praising God for finding a novel way to exterminate the English. Then the plague hit them ...)
Laban | Homepage | 12.28.08 - 6:25 pm | #

You guys think you got it tough? You're welcome here in the USA - Pickpocket to the World.

Oh and would the UK mind hosting "The Mouse That Roared" literary review for the next few years? We really hate keeping it all to ourselves - though I surely will despair at missing Hugo Chavez auctioning his copy autographed by Fidel Castro and the Argentine Junta.
Persncikety Curmudgeon | Homepage | 12.28.08 - 9:03 pm | #

It's time for a war on verbs. Anything less is more or less complex, local and global. Actually, less is more. Although I'm not sure about that "is".
phil | Homepage | 12.28.08 - 9:44 pm | #