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bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:09 am

moonkatt wrote:

Love the picture of the lightening over the houses of parliment. They trying to say something with that or is Vince Cable in the house again?

Michael Howard, surely?

AOB · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:42 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/articl ... claim.html

Rivals rubbish Asda's '10% cheaper' claim

Not a Mailite comment and it's a few days old but this made me smile;

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Tesco brandished the claim as 'utter rubbish', while Richard Hodgson, Morrisons commercial director, said: 'Unlike Asda, we're not in the business of gimmicks and stunts.'

No, not much! Must be a different Morrisons that's had Richard Hammond and Denise Van Outen amongst many other well-known names in its advertising campaigns pushing trolleys through fields and on boats as a way of showing how fresh their produce is. And it must be a different Morrisons that's recently used children of primary school age to advertise their supermarket cos it's not Richard Hodgson's as he's "not in the business of gimmicks and stunts."

Danson's Forehead · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:32 am **Posts:** 718

It takes some ingenuity to work a "lol" into a comment on a story about a child being killed in a road accident.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ident.html

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i thought with sat navs that don't update themselves (or how over it works lol) it if there has been recent road works then the sat nav wouldn't know any different ?? so in this mans defense he wouldn't have known but also instead of thinking the sat nav is the bee's knees shouldn't he have been looking at road markings and looking at the traffic?
- Lukeey, Gillingham, Kent, 3/2/2011 9:46

I'm not putting this in COTD, because it seems that for some people "lol" has just become the natural way to end a sentence.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:22 pm

On the story about the failed application to stop Southampton putting fluoride in water:

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I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
- General Ripper, RAF St Athan, 12/2/2011 10:37

I do hope this nutter isn't really working for the RAF, the implications are slightly horrifying.

And here's one to make Mailite heads explode:

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Fluoridation was made legal by the Water (Fluoridation) Act 1985. Who was prime minister at the time? One Margaret Thatcher, a qualified chemist who would have been far more able to come to a reasoned decision on this than me or, I suspect, 99% of the population at large.
- TonyB, Melbourne, Australia, 12/2/2011

Green/red arrows currently dithering around the zero mark.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:53 pm

General Ripper was the insane rogue US general in Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, played by Sterling Hayden. That 'vital fluids' schtick was one of the themes in his insane rants.

Did I mention he was insane?

pillows · **Joined:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:23 am **Posts:** 17

Can you even get non-fluoride toothpaste? I bet Dr Ripper uses soot and spit on a stick, on the special occasions when he might get to 'cuddle' with a lady (through a hole cut in the tinfoil sheets).

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:26 pm

I think General Ripper would find it hard to brush his teeth with his tongue so firmly in his cheek.

Adam · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:46 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

General Ripper was the insane rogue US general in Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, played by Sterling Hayden. That 'vital fluids' schtick was one of the themes in his insane rants.

Did I mention he was insane?

And one of the funniest things in the whole damn film. And it's a very funny film. Fozzy, educate thyself. Swiftish.

Seriously. It's fucking brilliant.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:55 pm

OK, massive education fail here. Saw Dr Strangelove decades ago, largely forgotten it.

Still, looks as if I'm not the only one, judging from the comment's approval ratings.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:18 pm

It (the Ripper character) was also a brilliant satire on cold-war US attitudes.

What am I saying - they haven't gone away, they're just called Sarah Palin and the NRA.

Son Of Hand · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:14 am

Been a long time since I saw the film, although 'You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!' is definitely etched on my brain. Was Ripper the one riding the bomb on its way down?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:07 am

Jack D Ripper (played by Sterling Hayden) was the crazy paranoid Airforce Brigadier General who ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the USSR.
The bomb-rider was Major T.J. 'King' Kong, played by the marvellous Slim Pickens (real name Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.).
Peter Sellers played three parts, including the rather wonderfully named President Merkin Muffley.

Adam · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:07 am

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Jack D Ripper (played by Sterling Hayden) was the crazy paranoid Airforce Brigadier General who ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the USSR.
The bomb-rider was Major T.J. 'King' Kong, played by the marvellous Slim Pickens (real name Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.).
Peter Sellers played three parts, including the rather wonderfully named President Merkin Muffley.

He was also meant to play Kong as well, but apparently couldn't get the accent right.

You also get to see a very young James Earl Jones in the bomber.

J · **Joined:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:06 pm **Posts:** 349

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All secular Islamic schools should be shut down because they are an insult to British People. The French would not allow this to happen in their country. Unfortunately our politicians are spineless wimps and our law and order has been destroyed since Blair signed the EU human rights treaty that destroyed Britain.

- Lew, Ayrshire, 13/2/2011 3:38

Perhaps Len means state schools?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:30 pm

How can a school be both secular and Islamic?

Mail commenters really are the cream of the crop...

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