Should Maude Resign?

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  • amateur51

    #31
    Baroness Warsi sets the tone .... (and tells us what we should be thinking )

    Baroness Warsi accuses Labour of trying to make political capital out of the news that a woman suffered 40% burns when petrol ignited as she was decanting it in her kitchen.

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    • Lateralthinking1

      #32
      When two gas people came to work for six hours into the night to repair a leak in the pavement of over 52 LEL (explosive level), I gave them mugs of tea. I knew that it wasn't a job I could do. I would be surprised if they were on anything like the same rate of pay as tanker drivers. Of course, I could be wrong.

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      • LeMartinPecheur
        Full Member
        • Apr 2007
        • 4717

        #33
        Originally posted by Mahlerei View Post
        Maude gone?

        With Willy the butler?
        I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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        • Flosshilde
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7988

          #34
          John McCormack - Come Into The Garden, MaudJohn McCormack (14 June 1884 -- 16 September 1945), was a world-famous Irish tenor and recording artist, celebrate...


          Or are we just being led up the garden path?

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          • Lateralthinking1

            #35
            Francis Maude....Come into the Garden Maude.......Maudlin.......Reggie Maudling. Ah yes, dear old Reggie Maudling.....

            ......oh and a demure Margaret and worries about coalitions with the Liberals.

            Declaration of result in Chipping Barnet Constituency (Reginald Maudling) and interviews between Sir Robin Day with Margaret Thatcher (Finchley) and Reginald...


            What more do you lovely people want?

            Well, this possibly:

            CJ s cross. He didn't get where he is today by telling the truth to customers when they make complaints... Classic British comedy from BBC Worldwide.This is ...

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            • Mahlerei

              #36
              I'm not sure why a tanker driver's salary should be an issue here, as ferrying around several thousand litres of highly flammable fuel must be one of the more dangerous jobs around. I gather they are concerned that supplier incentives to get more deliveries more quickly has raised safety concerns as well.

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              • aeolium
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3992

                #37
                Come into the Garden Maude
                Or perhaps, the granny's version of this old poem:

                Come into the garage, Maude
                And listen to a granny's moan.
                Come into the garage, Maude
                For a crack on the funny bone.
                For the petrol all has gone to hoard
                And the car's as dry as a stone.

                No longer drift hot pasty smells
                Through streets and homes up 'ere.
                Those nasty Tory toffs and swells
                Have taxed our pies and black beer.
                We'd gladly all knock seven bells
                Out of yon cronies drear.

                I can't be doing with such as Maude
                Who care for those with cash and bling.
                Their City pals get fat with fraud,
                While folks for their suppers sing.
                How long before he's made a Lord?
                And here no pasties, petrol, anything!

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                • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 9173

                  #38
                  rather fine piece of versifying there aeolium!

                  and a rather to the point op-ed piece by Charles Moore in the Torygraf
                  Last edited by aka Calum Da Jazbo; 31-03-12, 10:34.
                  According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37637

                    #39
                    Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                    rather fine piece of versifying there aeolium!

                    and a rather to the point op-ed piece by Charles Moore in the Torygraf
                    Yes... till you get to his penultimate paragraph. That second sentence could itself take up a dissertation's worth of deconstruction!

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                    • ardcarp
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 11102

                      #40
                      Come into the garage, Maude
                      And listen to a granny's moan.
                      Come into the garage, Maude
                      For a crack on the funny bone.
                      For the petrol all has gone to hoard
                      And the car's as dry as a stone.

                      No longer drift hot pasty smells
                      Through streets and homes up 'ere.
                      Those nasty Tory toffs and swells
                      Have taxed our pies and black beer.
                      We'd gladly all knock seven bells
                      Out of yon cronies drear.

                      I can't be doing with such as Maude
                      Who care for those with cash and bling.
                      Their City pals get fat with fraud,
                      While folks for their suppers sing.
                      How long before he's made a Lord?
                      And here no pasties, petrol, anything!


                      ..and one might end, "I am here at the pump a-(top C, glissando down) lone."

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                      • Flosshilde
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7988

                        #41
                        Originally posted by aeolium View Post
                        Or perhaps, the granny's version of this old poem:

                        Come into the garage, Maude
                        And listen to a granny's moan.
                        ...

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