[Chris O'Carroll]

No 4272
By Tricia Parrott
Essex Police commented after the Vicky Pryce conviction: “We hope this conviction serves as a timely reminder to motorists.” We want compers to send in similar examples of bathos, in regard to any dramatic or historical event, past or present.
Max 150 words by 18 April comp@newstatesman.co.uk

[Rob Stuart]

Gosh, this is a dreary one. Can anyone be bothered?

[Brian Allgar]

No, especially since it was only four weeks ago that they set a competition with Vicky Pryce in the subject. (I didn't enter that one either.)

I think I'll go back to hibernating now. Would someone please wake me up when a decent competition comes along?

[Chris O'Carroll]

On the other hand, the less attractive the comp, the fewer entries it draws, the better the odds for anyone who shrugs, grumbles, and submits something.

[Douglas G. Brown]

I just Googled Ms. Pryce, and it seems that she got a few months in the jug for taking the blame for her hubby's bad driving?

Is that all ... 3 hots and a cot for dissembling to a traffic cop?

Doesn't Merrie Olde England have any Ministers or MP's who have driven a car off a bridge, drowned a woman, and gotten a $75.00 fine for leaving a scene of an accident?

[John Whitworth]

No it wasn't his bad driving. She took his speeding points. Or rather he said she was driving the car when she wasn't there.. It's a disgrace she went to prison at all. The story is quite complicated. Suffice to say he is a shit cubed and she was getting revenge on him because he left her for a youngish lesbian. I'm not making this up. The newspapers compared her to Medea, though I didn't notice she had cut up any of her children. Indeed they were in total agreement with her as to his total shittiness. Anyway, take it from me she is a good egg and he deserves to be impaled.

[basil ransome-davies]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

No it wasn't his bad driving. She took his speeding points. Or rather he said she was driving the car when she wasn't there.. It's a disgrace she went to prison at all. The story is quite complicated. Suffice to say he is a shit cubed and she was getting revenge on him because he left her for a youngish lesbian. I'm not making this up. The newspapers compared her to Medea, though I didn't notice she had cut up any of her children. Indeed they were in total agreement with her as to his total shittiness. Anyway, take it from me she is a good egg and he deserves to be impaled.

Pace John, I'd say they'd have spoiled another couple. (And maybe they have now.)

[John Whitworth]

You could do this in limericks.

A Salutary Warning

Julius, first of the Caesars,
Was killed by some horrible geezers,
Which shows, I suppose,
That that's how it goes
When you share your initials with Jesus.

[Jerome Betts]

John, V.P. may have been or be a brilliant economist and possibly badly treated but she still behaved very foolishly though not enough to warrant an eight month sdentence and all that pompous stuff about 'perverting the course of justice, I agree.

I have no first hand information about Chrish Huhne's privatde or domestic life and don't wish to acquire any. He was, however, an effective environment minister and that's the main point for me. We elect MPs for their public performance, not their private. Nor, by the way, was he like your married John Major, preaching back to basics morality and his version of Victorian values in public yet at the same time pronging a Parliamentary paramour in private, or having a curry n' salmonella on the side.

[Brian Allgar]

Good one, John!

Said Lot to his wife “Do not do it!
If once you look back, you will rue it.”
But she wouldn’t listen -
How Sodom did glisten! -
So now her remains fill the cruet.

Invasion at Hastings and Rye!
King Harold said “Lads, do or die
To repel the intruder!”
The Normans were ruder,
And gave him a poke in the eye.

There once was a thane called Macbeth
Who foully put Duncan to death.
“I fear”, said his wife
“That it wasn’t the knife,
But a blast of your horrible breath.”