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Unread 05-07-2017, 05:58 PM
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Well, Roger, that's a novel approach. What has the great Bazza to say about this? His opinion carries greatest weight of all.
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Fair enough. I don't know, but my guess is his views will not correspond with yours and will lean more in Brian's direction. I await his guidance.
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Unfortunately, Bazza's far too smart to waste time contributing to pointless arguments on the General Talk board. (A quick search reveals that he never, ever has. Further proof of his genius.)
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Ah, Julie, but Bazza has many faces. It is true that all this chat is a bit of a waste of breath when one might be writing poetry or watching the England cricket team on Murdoch's marvellous Sky.

Bazza is an anarchist in my book. You and Brian are deluded lefties, bless your little cotton socks.

I just have to add today that the latest opinion polls in the UK give the Tories 49% and Labour 27%. This would give Theresa an overall majority over all parties of around 170 seats. As I have possibly said before, she is lucky in her English political enemies. They are all useless.

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I think anything over 50 would be a result, so long as the Scots Nats get stuffed. Here's my favourite Whitworth
poem, by the way:

Epigraph: Being the Bad Guy
by John Whitworth

A posh English accent is Hollywood shorthand for villainy — even the Nazis have them.

I’ve been the Bad Guy a long time:
Sir Farquar Fitz-Arthur Fitz-Arse.
For hundreds of years I’ve been calling the shots
And I soon had my copybook covered in blots
As I duffed up the Irish, the Welsh and the Scots,
But you have to admit I’ve got class!
He’s got Class,
Yes, we have to admit he’s got class!

I’ve been the Bad Guy a long time:
Captain Courtney Carruthers-Carlisle,
Perfidious master of legerdemain.
I did for the Beards and the Galleons of Spain
And I did for the Froggies again and again,
I was evil but how I had style!
He had Style,
Oh so evil, but look at his style!

I’ve been the Bad Guy a long time:
Lord Valentine Vernon de Vere.
I’m a titled and treacherous, base and baronial,
Rabid reactionary, cheap ceremonial,
Vilely Imperial, Home and Colonial
King of the kick and the sneer!
Yes the sneer,
Uncrowned king of the kick and the sneer!

I’ve been the Bad Guy a long time:
I’ve been Just-As-Bad-As-It-Gets.
I seduce with sang-froid, I corrupt with finesse.
I’m a serial sinner, a monster, a mess,
I’m Caligula, Satan, the Waffen-SS,
And I even (gulp!) smoke cigarettes!
Cigarettes,
Yes, he even (aaargh!) smokes cigarettes!

I’ve been the Bad Guy such a long time
I don’t think I know how to stop.
Ah the lure of the laudanum, the lick of the lash,
As I ravish young girls and abscond with their cash.
It’s a quip and a curl of my villain’s moustache
Keeps the Englishman always on top!
He’s on top,
For the English are always on top!

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Interesting, by the way, that at the moment there are 48 people reading General Talk and 2 reading metrical poetry.
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Yes, but quite a few of those 48 are spambots trying in vain to post spam to years-old GT threads (such as the one on Sarah Palin).

I don't know if that's encouraging or depressing.
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Good Heavens! Did we have a thread on Sarah Palin? Did I contribute to it?

David, thank you for your endorsement. I have just been watching an old sixties film where all the posh Brits were villains. The hero was Gregory Peck, a Professor of Hittite, who punted from the wrong end. Never mind, he got the girl.

Re the Brit Election I believe you can get 50 to 1 on, on a Tory victory. Looks a good investment. Go to Joe Coral. For those of you who don't know about betting, that means you bet £50 and get your stake back plus £1 when you win. So bet the house and get back a free brick.

I was reading metrical poetry before I came here, David. There's a nice poem by me there. Go and comment on it.
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Did you contribute to it? You dominated it, John! And it wasn't just your referring to her as the greatest political mind since Winston Churchill; it was all the sexual innuendo. That comment about the marmite was disgusting.

I'm not going to do your work for you. You'll have to find it for yourself.
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Fortunately, Michael, Julie appears to have done it, bless her.

Do you know, I've entirely forgotten who she was.
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