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Surely "banker" covers it? And how could they possibly object?
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Vasily Petrenko's (and Dmitri Shostakovich's) team, Zenit St Petersburg, beat Man Utd in the European Super Cup last night: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/7584103.stmI expect that will get VP an extra cheer when he opens the season at Cultureville Phil next month! This is not really a humorous story - though more sectarian Liverpool fans will see the funny side - but we don't have a sports board so I thought I'd post it here. |
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It's a bit much when they make you gag on your Coffee Mate!
LONDON (Reuters) - A British MP trekking in Colombia was held at gunpoint in the jungle and forced to eat coffee whitener from a jar in his backpack after soldiers mistook it for cocaine.
Michael Fabricant was on a walking holiday in South America with a friend when they were stopped by a group of gun-toting men in camouflage uniforms.
The soldiers found a container full of coffee whitener in their bags and immediately suspected it was drugs.
"In order to demonstrate that it wasn't cocaine, I had to take a whole pile of it and throw it down my throat," the Conservative member for Lichfield in Staffordshire told BBC television.
"They waited a few minutes to see whether I collapsed or went delirious and said something completely ridiculous like 'Gordon Brown's got a great personality'.
"Because I didn't say anything too weird, they came to the conclusion that it wasn't the case and they let me go."
His explanation for putting powdered whitener in Colombian coffee, regarded as among the best in the world, will be familiar to many Brits abroad.
"You have to be a little bit careful about what you eat," he said.
(Reporting by Peter Griffiths; editing by Steve Addison)
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #456 on: 12:28:09, 06-09-2008 » |
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went delirious and said something completely ridiculous like 'Gordon Brown's got a great personality'.  I'd vote for him, whoever he is |
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« Reply #457 on: 12:46:12, 06-09-2008 » |
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Everything you heard about labradors' eating habits is true ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/06/animalwelfare |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #459 on: 12:48:02, 20-09-2008 » |
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Evidence, if any were needed, that nobody does culture wars quite like the French: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4791195.ece |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #461 on: 12:45:26, 01-10-2008 » |
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Have we had the Shane Warne Musical noted anywhere? The life and times of the Australian spin bowler Shane Warne are being set to music by a comedian who promises to deliver a "Wagnerian tale" of sex, scandal and over-indulgence.Apparently, he's none too amused. Ho ho ho Tommo |
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The German TV-Licensing Authority GEZ has pursued poet Friedrich Schiller for monthly payments of €17.03 which it alleges he owes. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/02/germany.theatreHerr Schiller died more than two centuries ago, and over 100 years before the first working prototypes of television were invented. |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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As it happens they are still pursuing me too, a year after I left Germany, though this pales into insignificance.
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« Reply #464 on: 19:33:40, 02-10-2008 » |
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"Schiller, who died in 1805, is best known for his poem Ode to Joy."
Is this really Schiller's best known work?
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"People hate anything well made. It gives them a guilty conscience." John Betjeman
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