"jubilee" wrongly stressed

[gurnemanz]

Here's a classic John Prescott utterance with an unintended second meaning.

"Some need a kick up the arse. Some need a carrot."

[Flosshilde]

[Vile Consort]

Gone (fortunately) are the days when the news was full of reports of people being shot in the Bogside

[Segilla]

Blimey Segilla, I've often pondered on that architectural juxtaposition - a tragic tale :

If you know or knew College Road, higher up, the library was opened by Mark Twain c. 1900 - and closed by the Council c. 2012.

Even higher up, the vicarage suffered a direct hit in 1940. I lived almost diagonally opposite and was asleep in the Anderson shelter in the garden and never heard a thing.
Next day the sight of the destruction is still clearly imprinted in my memory. Glass everywhere and my next door neighbour waggling the stile of his garden gate, all that was left of it.