All of which are better, IMO, than the "my esteemed colleague on the other side of the aisle" BS spouted by our politicians.
-P Bob W wrote: > I'm not sure how grown up they are, really. > > Labour MP Tony Banks once described Tory MP Terry Dicks as "living > proof that a pig's bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to > Parliament". > > Churchill said Clement Attlee was "a sheep in sheep's clothing". > > Harold Wilson described Edward Heath as "a shiver looking for a spine > to run up". > > Clement Freud called Margaret Thatcher "Attila the Hen". > > -- > Bob > > >> ========= >> The only system I've seen that looked grown up (and >> admittedly I haven't >> seen very many) was a while back. They carried some of the >> British Parliament >> meetings on CSPAN. I think it was when John Majors was in. >> Veddy, veddy polite, >> so veddy polite you had to listen really, really hard to >> realize how much >> the politicians were dishing each other. Now THAT'S adult. I >> was impressed. >> >> Maybe it's changed. Humans have a way of reverting to adolescence. >> >> Marnie aka Doe :-) >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
