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      <title>Re: taking the piss out of Dubya</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3350#msg-3350</link>
      <author>poestscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[2DTV is actually quite cruel to ol' Dubya. For instance, he only takes advice off a sock puppet operated by his military advisor from under the desk. Yesterday's show had him hitting his ears repeatedly. It then cut to inside his head, where he was playing pinball with a very small brain as the ball. They later pulled the same stunt with him playing Labyrinth, and also trying to get it into a very ssmall basket ball hoop.]]></description>
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      <title>Re: taking the piss out of Dubya</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3339#msg-3339</link>
      <author>All-American-Cutie</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yeah, Ben, I saw that...we thought it was hysterical here...wished we could do something like it!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:23:10 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>taking the piss out of Dubya</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3337#msg-3337</link>
      <author>Carla</author>
      <description><![CDATA[everybody should read &quot;Stupid White Men&quot;!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:06:13 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3334#msg-3334</link>
      <author>poestscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Did you know that over here it's illegal to take the piss out of Dubya for the purposes of a TV advert? Absolutely true. It was an advert for the satirical TV show 2DTV, which is bloody funny. Thanks to the joy of the web, it's available here http://www.2dtv.co.uk/pages/itv_movies.htm.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:45:39 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3333#msg-3333</link>
      <author>All-American-Cutie</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dubya couldn't exactly send in one of our ships to check out that weapons shipment!  Even HE wouldn't be THAT stupid (hard to believe I know!)  So he sent the Spaniards in to check it out.  That way he doesn't look like the big bully he really is.

(no, not all Americans are terribly keen on this whole Iraq thing. Yes, Saddam is a baddie - is his hair slicked back?, but who's to say what comes after him won't just be worse?!)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:19:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3318#msg-3318</link>
      <author>C M O T Dibbler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Oi, will you stop using my catchphrase.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:33:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3313#msg-3313</link>
      <author>dave</author>
      <description><![CDATA[read the first half of The Star Faction (Fraction?). Then got distracted.

Is it any good? Can't remember..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3311#msg-3311</link>
      <author>fuzz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[While we're on the subject of Trots, has anyone else read any Ken MacLeod?  Mainly  scifi with a very strong political theme, although he's toned it down a bit in the recent books.  I'm guessing his publisher told him there was no way he would sell a book in the US that had *shock horror* socialists in it, macarthyism being what it is (should that have had a capital M?)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:58:01 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3309#msg-3309</link>
      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[But that doesn't explain the Che beards they grew.... (i'm not even going to try and spell 'Guevara')]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:52:39 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3307#msg-3307</link>
      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The tune is trad., arr. International Revolutionaries. US readers will know it better as O, Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum (Oh, Christmas Tree, oh, Christmas Tree).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:51:07 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3304#msg-3304</link>
      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Red Flag - words + tune, apparently

I'm sure we used to have to sing Grace before lunch at my school to the same tune. Obviously we had Trotskyist Dinner Ladies.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:47:36 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3301#msg-3301</link>
      <author>fuzz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I like the song, is there a copy of the original words anywhere?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:43:28 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3260#msg-3260</link>
      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ssssh ... at this rate LIAGB will be impounded on Ellis Island as subversive literature ....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:23:12 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3254#msg-3254</link>
      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It's a bit like the current thing of 'We know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. And here's the invoice we sent him to prove it.'

Did anyone notice how the USA is now supporting high seas piracy? And against a shipment that they knew about 12 months ago?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:18:20 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3253#msg-3253</link>
      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[*falls off chair laughing and gets very odd look from Minsky*]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:16:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3251#msg-3251</link>
      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Psst ... wanna buy a flat? Half a mill the pair, and that's cuttin me own throat ....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:15:10 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3246#msg-3246</link>
      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Pretty good, and very much to the point!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:12:28 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3245#msg-3245</link>
      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Workers' flag's now privatised,
We've flogged it off to PFI's.
The Tories' corpse is dead and cold,
But Thatcher's got our hearts to hold.

Chorus:

Keep Maggie's standards flying here,
Apply our lips to Dubya's rear.
Though Tony Benn may swear and curse,
You've had the Tories, now have worse.


We'll flick the V's to firemen,
Tax the students, hate Red Ken.
The Labour party's modernised,
Socialism paralysed.

We'll go to war for Yankee oil,
We'll feck you over, young and old.
Our principles are up for sale,
Just twenty quid buys Tony's smile...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:10:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3234#msg-3234</link>
      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry, I only know the first verse.  In fact, I'm not even sure I know all of that... *blush*]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:54:06 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3229#msg-3229</link>
      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Actually, you might know this... Wasn't there a line or two in the 'Red Flag' about the evils of landlords...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:47:31 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3225#msg-3225</link>
      <author>Minsky Cat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I _knew_ Santa wore red for a good reason. ;-)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:42:07 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Labour Santas...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3214#msg-3214</link>
      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sarah - good job the Mail never heard about it - imagine the outcry over 'indoctrination' by 'Red Santa'...

I wonder if there's now 'New' Santa, who wears purple as it's a 'pretty straight kinda colour', had privatised the reindeers (Donner and Blitxen are now dog meat as part of the 'modernisation' programme), and stockings are going to be subject to a 'top-up fee'. And the rich kids are going to get even more than ever. And he'll also be sub-contracted to 'deliver ordinance' to Iraq, as the jargon currently has it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:24:25 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3210#msg-3210</link>
      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I remember when they used to make bus drivers dress up as Santa - not all of them, just one from each depot. I met one such in the canteen of the Arndale bus station. He stood there, head down, uttering the mantra &quot;____ing kids. ____ing, ____ing, ____ing, kids&quot;. Said it all, really.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:15:56 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3206#msg-3206</link>
      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[When I was in the Labour Party, our branch, for reasons unknown, was asked to provide an emergency Santa for a local primary school.  We were all enthusiastically in favour, but none of the men actually wanted to do the job.  In the end I lost patience and said that if the men were all going to wimp out, I'd do it myself... so I did!  (I was a great deal flatter-chested in those days - I don't think a Santa in a D cup would look quite right.)  One little girl gave me a very searching look and said, &quot;You're not the _real_ Father Christmas, are you?&quot;  I grinned at her from behind my cotton wool beard and replied, &quot;Shh, I'm doing my best!&quot;  This seemed to be the correct answer, because she went away obviously satisfied.

Thinking about it, it was a damn sight more fun than the politics...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:10:37 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3203#msg-3203</link>
      <author>Carla</author>
      <description><![CDATA[help help Triz's time/month/week continuum is getting mixed up]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:08:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3200#msg-3200</link>
      <author>poetscientistdrinker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Can't imagine professional Santa impersonators affording much time off in early December....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:03:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3196#msg-3196</link>
      <author>Ooktavia</author>
      <description><![CDATA[My parents and my sister are all vicars in the good old CofE, this makes holidays at Christmas and Easter impossbile for them, as you can imagine. It also meant we ALWAYS had at least 2 non-related elderly ladies/gents visiting at those times when I was growing up. The senile ones were good entertianment though. (We were kids. We had no concsiences)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:11:25 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3192#msg-3192</link>
      <author>ScarletBea</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hmmm I can never take days off in the 1st week of the month, but now at JC the month end isn't exactly the last day of the month, but rather the last friday after 4 weeks, except every 3 months when the month has 5 weeks, so...
erm... ask me first when is *my* 1st week of the month lol
And I can't take holidays in July (doing budget)...
And I can't take holidays between Christmas and New Year (doing cycle counts)...
...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:12:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3180#msg-3180</link>
      <author>Jon</author>
      <description><![CDATA[*NOTE*

ConStuff (Yorkshire) and CMOT Sales Inc. would like to assure the public that no frogs were harmed in the making of this Fforum. Humans, yes; frogs, no.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:31:59 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Holidays</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,3149,3179#msg-3179</link>
      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Try saying _that_ when you've had one too many.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:31:22 +0100</pubDate>
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