In the Guarniad this morning was some bloke asking Red Ken to do something about congestion as it had taken him over five hours to walk 3-1/2 miles through London last Saturday. And yup, I was one of the million others doing the same. Some of the inspired slogans spotted:

"Blessed are the cheesemakers"
"Make tea, not war"
"Sufferers of daily sex untie"
"Sex workers of the world unite" - and yes, I ended up marching behind it AGAIN - I don't try to find it deliberately, it just follows me about like that ball in 'The Prisoner'
"English Bush - Harmless" (under a Bonsai tree on a stick)
"Don't drop bombs, drop acid"

anybody seen any better ones? (I'm sure there were some, I've just forgotten them..)



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Since I was baaaad and only went in the march for about 5 metres I didn't see any weird ones...

I was going to go, honest, but first I didn't leave till 2 and then got a phone call that diverted me to the pub...

I still crossed the march... so i can say i did it for a bit
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Yep, saw 'War does not prove who is right, only who will be left.' And (this is in Oz-land), I saw a protestor dressed up as a dentist. His placard read 'Fight plaque, not Iraq.'

Somehow the entire thing passed me by until late friday night, I have no idea how. But psd, if the sign follows you about, how come you were marching behind it? The public needs to know.

fuzz wrote:

> psd, if the sign follows you about,
> how come you were marching behind it? The public needs to
> know.

Easy - I had been hanging about going nowhere but with a damned good samba band to keep me occupied (dancing in the streets of London feels like a forbidden act) when the bloody sign pops up. Unless I'd been spectactularly innattentive (not exactly unheard of) then the bugger must have been working back down the line until it found me...



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Are you sure that you weren't marching backwards (for Christmas)? :-)

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There was a brief period of confusion when everyone suddenly decided they were facing the wrong way, but no, I really was facing the right way.

EDIT --> Thinking about this further, we hung about for ages doing nothing while people tried to work out which way we were supposed ot be moving - does this count as democracy inaction?



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Re the 'further thoughts' : "Groooan..."

By the way, what does the newest Latin tag translate into English as?

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Stand aside Plebians! I am on Imperial business!

Yup, another groan worthy one...

I like the one about the wood chuck better I think.



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The best two placards I saw were the very polite, restrained

"Down with this sort of thing"

and the less restrained

"Bombing 4 peace is like shagging 4 Virginity" whci put across a very true, acurate and relevant statement in a novel, eye catching, thought provoking way......

I read about the 'down with this sort of thing' one, and also heard about one reading 'It's noty a terribly British thing to do, if you don't mind awfully, Mr Blair'...

And Sarah - don't wory - there'll be another one next week... Or I might go back to Bibo ergo sum.



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Hey, you get made homeless, have to beg borrow and steal friends' computers, and then the Fforum goes and gets changed on you!
I'm checking in though, in between watching my house get demolished by builders even more than several thousand gallons of water demolished it (drilling all the wet plaster off), and arguing with insurance companies (truly the scum of the earth).

Anyway, political slogans I liked:

A terrorist behing every Bush
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease

There were a lot more, but someone's been messing with my short term memory.

Polly

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If it makes you feel any better I spent all afternoon knee deep in muddy water with a pick axe.



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poetscientistdrinker wrote:

> If it makes you feel any better I spent all afternoon knee deep
> in muddy water with a pick axe.

You clearly need some better method of disposing of the bodies. Have you tried acid?



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psd - well, they say that variety is the spice of life!

Or is that Oregano? I forget.



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Another slogan I saw was "The only Bush I trust is my Own"

Acid doesn't dipose of bodies. The faries yoou see when you take it refuse to take them away. Not that I know this from personal experience, or anything, oh no.



My reality check has just bounced again.......

Well, there was a disturbing number of old fertiliser and lime sacks in lower layers, so I think pouring acid on would merely cause the entire garden to start fizzing....

and Sarah B - surely that's 'variety packs'. Did anybody else always end up with multiple packets of All Bran clogging up the cupboard and your mother saying 'I'm not buying any more until you've eaten the ones you have...'. Bloody rabbit food.



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PSD: Surely as a good researcher you should try it ? You could section off different areas for different tests, leaving one area (possibly a large one) fallow as control...

I also preferred the woodchuck tag. It amuses me that it's a tongue twister in Latin as well as English.

Well, we are trying a policy of scorched earth, so maybe it wouldn't be such a dumb idea... The other worry of course is that all those sacks were the result of bombmaking activities, and the entire neighbourhodd might go up in smoke.

This might count as civic improvement...



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PSD - Yeah, but we always ended up with the Honey Nut because we don't eat nuts in our house. Too much like cannabalism.



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