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[ahinton]

Just seen on the Facebook page of Peter Donohoe and thought that I'd like to share:

I think I can post this without revealing my politics; whether or not you are a raving looney rabid naive communist or a complacent 'I'm-alright-Jack' self-deluded right-winger - or anywhere in between - you have to admit that this is funny in its own right [Thanks to Tully Potter]:

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A Brexit up a gum tree.

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the fifth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the sixth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six Tories groping,
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the seventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Seven Boris cock-ups,
Six Tories groping,
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the eighth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eight Mays a-mocking,
Seven Boris cock-ups,
Six Tories groping,
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the ninth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Nine backbenchers whining,
Eight Mays a-mocking,
Seven Boris cock-ups,
Six Tories groping,
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the tenth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Ten lords a-lying,
Nine backbenchers whining,
Eight Mays a-mocking,
Seven Boris cock-ups,
Six Tories groping,
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the eleventh day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eleven hedge funds thriving,
Ten lords a-lying,
Nine backbenchers whining,
Eight Mays a-mocking,
Seven Boris cock-ups,
Six Tories groping,
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve Hammonds Scrooging,
Eleven hedge funds thriving,
Ten lords a-lying,
Nine backbenchers whining,
Eight Mays a-mocking,
Seven Boris cock-ups,
Six Tories groping,
FIVE TRUMP TWEETS,
Four budget cuts,
Three food banks,
Two Michael Goves,
And a Brexit up a gum tree.

Pity, perhaps, that it seems not to have been done a little earlier and sent to King's College Cambridge in time to include in its 2017 Service of Nine Unlearned Lessons and Carols...

[vinteuil]

... you have to admit that this is funny in its own right..

Nope.

I may agree with the sentiments - but this is effortful and not remotely witty.

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[Stanfordian]

...you have to admit that this is funny in its own right .

Not at all funny. Tiresome at best!

[burning dog]

Not at all funny. Tiresome at best!

Brexity is not the soul of wit?

[ahinton]

Not at all funny. Tiresome at best!

Please note that I didn't personally express an opinion on whether or to what extent this example of Potter-y is funny...

[vinteuil]

Please note that I didn't personally express an opinion on whether or to what extent this example of Potter-y is funny...

... implicitly you did, by electing to post it.


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[french frank]

Please note that I didn't personally express an opinion on whether [ … ] this example of Potter-y is funny...

Yes, you did. You said, 'you have to admit that this is funny in its own right'. It provoked a certain curiosity as to what would come next, but the extent of funniness, on a scale of 1 to 5 would probably be 0 to -5 depending on how sympathetic one was with the sentiments [Sympathetic 0, unsympathetic -5 ].

[jean]

... implicitly you did, by electing to post it.

...and even explicitly, by writing:

...you have to admit that this is funny in its own right...

[ahinton]

Yes, you did. You said, 'you have to admit that this is funny in its own right'. It provoked a certain curiosity as to what would come next, but the extent of funniness, on a scale of 1 to 5 would probably be 0 to -5 depending on how sympathetic one was with the sentiments [Sympathetic 0, unsympathetic -5 ].

Oh, no I didn't! (as they say this time of the year); all of that is a quote from Peter Donohoe - I din't express an opinion on his remarks or the piece itself!

[ahinton]

...and even explicitly, by writing:

...except that, as confirmed in my reply to FF, I did not write this as my opinion but quoted what Peter Donohoe had written about it.

[vinteuil]

...and even explicitly, by writing:

... unless of course (as I suspect) everything after the first colon is not ahinton but a quote from Mr Donohoe. In the which case, quotation marks might have been helpful...

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[ahinton]

... implicitly you did, by electing to post it.

I don't see that this necessarly follows but at least you now appear to understand that, rather than having voiced my own opinion of it, I had quoted Peter Donohoe's.

[jean]

Where are the quotation marks in your introduction, then?

[ahinton]

... unless of course (as I suspect) everything after the first colon is not ahinton but a quote from Mr Donohoe. In the which case, quotation marks might have been helpful...

Well, you now have no need to "suspect" as you know; however, the post did begin "Just seen on the Facebook page of Peter Donohoe" and, since I do not impersonate him on his FB page, I would have thought that it was clear from the outset who had written what I was quoting (which said, I wouldn't mind being able to impersonate his piano playing!)...

[ahinton]

Where are the quotation marks in your introduction, then?

Nowhere, because there isn't one! (see #14).