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« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2013, 18:37:47 » |
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Do they teach them nothing at school?
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2013, 19:00:20 » |
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Treacherous Gove, Michael Cove!
I gather his latest scheme is to insist that history is taught in chronological order. Quite apart from the vexed issue of 'when do you start?', this means the next generation of kids are unlikely ever to learn about the Industrial Revolution and after, because they'll run out of time. You couldn't make it up.
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« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2013, 21:23:45 » |
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Luckily for Michael Gove, I have been working on the definitive text book. Entitled "The History of the World from the Big Bang to Last Tuesday" (when I started writing it), it's 82 pages long including the index, so it's quite comprehensive. It should be finished for the new school year, although I'm struggling with a couple of details, including whether Ian Fleming wrote the Bond novels before or after inventing penicillin. And why it's still the Marathon in the Olympics, when it's been Snickers everywhere else for years - a Greek thing, I suppose. I thought that one had passed everyone by unnoticed. |
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« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2013, 21:40:59 » |
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I thought that one had passed everyone by unnoticed. on this forum gets past me unnoticed, Four Track, Now! |
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« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2013, 21:48:05 » |
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Luckily for Michael Gove, I have been working on the definitive text book. Entitled "The History of the World from the Big Bang to Last Tuesday"...
Well with your undoubted influence it is sure to become a set book by the beginning of the new acedemic year. Do you have a foot in both camps? |
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« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2013, 22:27:06 » |
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Unfortunately, in terms of popular credibility, Michael Foot chose a donkey jacket when everyone else was wearing Gannex raincoats ...  |
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« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2013, 22:29:48 » |
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Treacherous Gove, Michael Cove!
I gather his latest scheme is to insist that history is taught in chronological order. Quite apart from the vexed issue of 'when do you start?', this means the next generation of kids are unlikely ever to learn about the Industrial Revolution and after, because they'll run out of time. You couldn't make it up.
I lost count of how many times I did the Tudors & Stuarts at school. Meanwhile my son once asked me if I had ever met Queen Victoria! (Makes a change from "what did you do in the war" I suppose!) |
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« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2013, 23:11:56 » |
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Unfortunately, in terms of popular credibility, Michael Foot chose a donkey jacket when everyone else was wearing Gannex raincoats ... The "Donkey Jacket" was not a donkey jacket, something acknowledged by even the Telegraph, hardly the newspaper most likely to stand up for a labour leader. Michael Foot and the donkey jacket that wasn't
Michael Foot is often caricatured wearing a donkey jacket, a somewhat inaccurate reference to what was to become an infamous appearance at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday in 1981.
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Mr Foot, then Labour leader, laid his party^s wreath wearing a short dark coat, in contrast to the long black overcoats worn by other men in attendance.
The contrast was so striking that on Labour MP▸ said he was ^disgusted to see that the leader of Her Majesty^s opposition looked more like an Irish navvy than a party leader^.
But according to Mr Foot^s official biographer, Lord Morgan, the coat was not a donkey jacket ^ which would have leather shoulders ^ but a ^a short, blue-green overcoat^ bought for Mr Foot by his wife, Jill at considerable expense.
During the Remembrance ceremony, the Queen Mother, is said to have complimented Mr Foot on the garment, telling him that it was ^a smart, sensible coat for a day like this^. I am happy to put the record straight on behalf of my late one-time boozing buddy Mickey (or Footy, as I sometimes refer to him). The whole Gannex / Kagan / Forkbender business occupied many column inches in newspapers for a while. It certainly wasn't the first time in history that a political donor (Joe Kagan funded Harold Wilson's private office) had been knighted, then ennobled, then imprisoned. It was a scandal at the time, meaning that we lost sight of the great success of Gannex as a raincoat. Wilson wore one one a trade mission before becoming Prime Minister. As a result, Lyndon Johnson, Nikita Kruschev, and even Mao Zedong bought them, with obvious benefits to the company, as did the Queen, for herself, Prince Philip, and even the corgis. They were popular with the military and police, too. To bring this once autobiographical item back on thread, I have never owned a Gannex raincoat or a donkey jacket, nor been knighted. I have, however, partly funded a former leader of a political party, although in fairness, he bought the next round. |
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« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2013, 08:36:07 » |
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Well I'm very happy to share a messageboard with someone who has had a pint with someone who knew Eric Arthur Blair.
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« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2013, 23:17:54 » |
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« Reply #26 on: May 17, 2013, 01:10:08 » |
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Well I'm very happy to share a messageboard with someone who has had a pint with someone who knew Eric Arthur Blair.
Tony's dad? Although I thought A. C. L. Blair's dad was the Randy Scouse Git.   |
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« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2013, 09:19:26 » |
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Tony's dad? Although I thought A. C. L. Blair's dad was the Randy Scouse Git. Shurely shome mishtake. My dad was Joe. Randy Scouse Git is TB's father in law. Well I'm very happy to share a messageboard with someone who has had a pint with someone who knew Eric Arthur Blair.
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« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2013, 09:21:06 » |
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« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2013, 09:25:23 » |
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Would have enjoyed a pint with him myself, even Georges Brewery's. I've read many of his books. Or, well, several anyway. (See what I did there?)
I've read every single word he wrote, even the Collected Shopping Lists 1936-39. He had nice things to say about Michael Foot. I do like Orwells that end well. |
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