Cameron on Letterman

[Resurrection Man]

Nurse! The screens! An emergency sense-of-humour failure in FoR3

No, Ams. Humour...that which makes people laugh. Snide threads like this are schoolboy humour.

[mercia]

personally I wouldn't have been able to put a date to Magna Carta, so well done Dave (C)
I think he was a good sport to appear on the show and it sounds as if he was able to correct Letterman on a few facts

it's basically a comedy show, isn't it ?

[amateur51]

No, Ams. Humour...that which makes people laugh. Snide threads like this are schoolboy humour.

I'll bow to your superior judgement, RM ... but it did make me laugh. Who briefs Cameron?

[eighthobstruction]

I think we should possibly close FoR3 immediately....we are all such cads and cadesses....we are such dreadful people....


....apples anyone??....

[amateur51]

ah, I see

I got lost in all the abbreviations

I prefer the abbreviations to the tax advice

[heliocentric]

I prefer the abbreviations to the tax advice

I prefer schoolboy or for that matter schoolgirl humour to either.

Apart from presiding over the most ideologically pernicious political programme in the UK in living memory, Cameron is a total embarrassment. I would love to watch his Letterman appearance but I think the knuckle-biting would probably permanently destroy my hands.

[eighthobstruction]

>>>'pernicious'<<<

Yes....Gove, Hunt , Grayling, Maude, Lansley's modus O, do bare a huge similarity to the MO of the Japanese Knotweed....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

...yep slime mould adapts .....

what is the translation of Magna Carta [Big Deal?] .... never mind what it is called, has he bloody well read it!? i read the copy in Lincoln Castle a few years back and then visited the Gaol and its abhorrent Pentonville system promulgated under the MC etc .... by toffs against plebs ... one child got four years for stealing two sticks of rhubarb ... with the beautiful cathedral an excellent three hours of civic studies and aesthetic delight .... but beware the hill ...

well Cameron shows exactly what Boris said about the value of a First in PPE at Oxon .... [ a snort .... of derision not cocaine]

[Serial_Apologist]

Cameron should now be subjected to the British whatever it's called citizen admissability test. My betting is he would fail. A Magnum = a small bottle of champers? Probably...

I hope he doesn't send his kids to Eton - for their sakes.

[burning dog]

Youngsters today innit? At one time most well educated people would have known Arne, but DC like most of his contemporaries would be better at answering questions on the Jam and the Clash. I'm sure DC could have worked out the Magna Carta thing given time.
Daft Boris would have no problem, he excels in Latin though I'm not sure about his English.. WhatWhat?

[Resurrection Man]

The congregation will now sing Hymn 235.

"Tell me the old, old story"

[Serial_Apologist]

Youngsters today innit? At one time most well educated people would have known Arne, but DC like most of his contemporaries would be better at answering questions on the Jam and the Clash. I'm sure DC could have worked out the Magna Carta thing given time.
Daft Boris would have no problem, he excels in Latin though I'm not sure about his English.. WhatWhat?

Apparently Cameron answered the question, where was the Magna Carta signed? correctly. Hardly surprising given Runnymede is only a stone's throw from Eton.

[burning dog]

Childish humour it may be, but at least it's BRITISH!
Here is the respectful version then, Cameron was just flustered he has wide knowledge of Classical music and is unaware of the Jam. Boris Johnson always speaks in concise English and sticks to the point. John Prescott is the Peoples Poet. Clegg fights tooth and nail in Cabinet for his Liberal beliefs risking the very existence of the Coalition. Mandelson and Blair are passionate Socialists who only kept quiet about their leanings to get some radical left wing economic policies through Parliament by stealth.

[french frank]

The answer to the question, Who wrote 'Rule Britannia' was apparently: James Thomson. Though Thomas Arne composed the music. If someone suddenly asked me that, unexpectedly, on television, I can quite imagine my mind going completely blank. But never, ever would I have suggested it was Elgar ... Unless ... in a panic ... I confused it with LandOfH&G. In which case.

I did the D Telegraph quiz and just stopped myself putting 1914-18 for the dates of WWII

[IRF]

Pre -U is what they currently teach them.

but not table manners.
From what I have seen.

Is that where the "Eton mess" comes from?