"They should totally just sail what is essentially an enormous floating bomb through a narrows laced with mines which is also a shooting gallery for drones and ballistic missiles, I can't imagine what could possibly go wrong."
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"The wallet inspector showed me his badge," part umpty-million in an apparently ceaseless series.
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That, too.
Truly astounding that just saying obviously idiotic things on television continues to be a viable career path.
"Why are these yellow-bellied, jelly-hearted, lily-livered cowards unwilling to sail a large, slow, unarmoured target filled to the gunwales with flammable cargo through an active war zone."
Have you never been to Australia? Grapefruit, steak and pineapple juice is one of our favourite drinks.
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I reckon I could do 10 days of this.
Actually genuinely warming to the idea now.
Looking forward to flying London to Melbourne via Bamako, Asunción and the Cook Islands.
ARE YOU AN AYATOLLAH.
Will ask. In the meantime, you can find it towards the end of yesterday's Daily. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
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Clapped in irons in the cargo hold at the very least.
Enjoy, but I stopped watching during the first quarter. Genuinely unendurable.
My new favourite AFL player will be the one who, if invited to choose after-goal music, chooses nothing, and cedes his time to the crowd. #AFLGiantsHawks
Not that there wouldn't be a good week for such a reform, but this would be a really good week to change all social media platform prompts to "Are you sure about this?" or "Do you really have even the faintest, wispiest clue what you're talking about?"
Granted that the general progress of the match is not improving my temper, but earnestly believe that people who sing along to "Sweet Caroline" at sporting events should be deprived of the vote, and possibly arrested. #AFLSunsCats
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Thanks kindly. I think we calculated afterwards that it was something like 37 years since the first time I'd interviewed him. (In our defences, we both started very young, etc.)
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Was he once mugged by a windmill, has anyone looked into this.
The real joy of the performance is the way the audience start laughing as soon as he says "Unfortunately. . . " Something curiously especially enjoyable about a punchline everyone sees coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF-P...
Posted as it reminds of the Tommy Cooper joke about finding a painting and a violin in the attic and getting them valued, and being told they were a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. "Unfortunately, Stradivarius was a terrible painter, and Rembrandt made rotten violins." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
