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THE BRITISH THREAD II

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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 04:05 pm
@roger,

And Braunschweig is Brunswick.

If you ask me, I think Habsburg got off lightly.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 05:26 pm
@McTag,
Football?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 17 Jul, 2011 11:55 pm
@roger,
roger wrote:

Oh, don't be silly. We've got a town in New Jersey called Teaneck. A fine old Dutch family name. We just corrected the faulty Dutch spelling of Ten Ecke.


Sorry, a bad hapitude. And I don't want to start with the hapeas corpus act now, either, ...

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 12:06 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:


And Braunschweig is Brunswick.


That's okay, since Braunschweig is called Brunswiek in low German.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 12:51 am
@Walter Hinteler,
Still happy for Clarke here.

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 01:14 am

Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian, tells his story in Newsweek: How the Guardian broke the Mudrdoch scandal
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 03:53 am
@Walter Hinteler,

Met Commissioner Stephenson gone.

Cameron next? What a time to be out of the country- he's in South Africa.

There's not much left for Private Eye to be sarcastic about.
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 04:07 am
@Walter Hinteler,

Good article, Walter, thanks.

Maybe it will resurface in The Guardian, but I've printed it out anyway.

The week that changed politics in Britain, eh.
McTag
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 12:19 pm
@McTag,
A C Yates gone now.
P M Cameron coming back early from Africa, tomorrow.
Parliament recess is postponed.

The sky has fallen.
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 12:38 pm
@McTag,
NoW whistle-blower Sean Hoare found dead in Watford
ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 12:45 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Yikes.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 18 Jul, 2011 01:03 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Well if you can post the same thing on two threads so can I.

If you'd ever been to Watford you'd quickly find yourself losing the will to live.
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spendius
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 12:52 pm
That was funny. Just as the strap was going across the bottom of the Sky News screen congratulating us all on free speech and transparency the comic aimed the custard pie at Rupe and they cut the pictures off explaining that when an incident occurs it is protocol to forget free speech and transparency.

That Brooks woman certainly knows how to choose her words carefully. It was one non sequitur after another. I presume she hoped we didn't notice on the assumption we are all thick.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 01:36 pm
@spendius,
So you watch Sky News then?
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 01:39 pm
the "Met" looking for a new leader, i vote either ACC Fischer (Pie in the Sky) or Chief Superintendent Mullet (A Touch of Frost)
djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 01:40 pm
@spendius,
spendius wrote:
That Brooks woman certainly knows how to choose her words carefully.


wait, that wasn't Fizz off Corrie?
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 19 Jul, 2011 01:40 pm
@djjd62,
Why not go the whole hog and give the job to Inch High Private Eye?
McTag
 
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Reply Wed 20 Jul, 2011 02:08 am
@izzythepush,
Isn't the job going to Cressida Dick, the woman who supervised the shooting in cold blood of an innocent Brazilian on the tube?

Izzythepush, interesting name, might one suppose you are a midwife?
izzythepush
 
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Reply Wed 20 Jul, 2011 03:08 am
@McTag,
No, I'm a nova criminal.
McTag
 
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Reply Fri 22 Jul, 2011 08:00 am
@izzythepush,

I don't know what one a them is.

Wendy Deng, she's quite a lady. I wouldn't tangle with her.

Now our meeja are getting quite apologetic about the emphasis placed on the Murdoch saga, when other more important worldwide events are going barely reported, but it rumbles on. It's beginning to look bad for young James, which is good. I read yesterday too, that James' grandmother was very disapproving when Rupert bought our scandal-rag the NoTW. He should have listened to his mum.
 

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