Further reflections on the funeral

[jayne lee wilson]

As the smoke rises in the Gentlemen's Club, there is heard The Chorus of Consoling Platitudes, and The Dissident Voices are Shouted Down...

[scottycelt]

As the smoke rises in the Gentlemen's Club ....

Thoroughly deviant behaviour if true (at least in the UK) ... such recently-declared deviancy has been illegal (if that word doesn't offend and is still deemed acceptable) since 2009. Even in Gentlemen's Clubs.

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Howsomdiver, "deviant" is an offensive term in the same way that the notorious N word and various other denigratory terms of race, class, gender, religion etc are. If one chooses to use such a term, in this day and age, knowingly, then one is knowingly choosing to cause offence.

40 years ago I was supposed to apologise for protesting about derogatory language; I'll be damned if I do so now. If some people can't or won't understand why I objected then it's time they educated themselves.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Stain-Philip-Roth/dp/0099282194

Spooky!

[Richard Barrett]

As the smoke rises in the Gentlemen's Club, there is heard The Chorus of Consoling Platitudes, and The Dissident Voices are Shouted Down...

[mercia]

would any of you recommend F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom [mentioned in the bishop's sermon] as a good read ?

[Ferretfancy]

would any of you recommend F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom [mentioned in the bishop's sermon] as a good read ?

Give me Elmore Leonard any time !

[Nick Armstrong]

Give me Elmore Leonard any time !

With you there Ff !!

[Richard Barrett]

would any of you recommend F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom [mentioned in the bishop's sermon] as a good read ?

The Road to Serfdom was used by Churchill as propaganda in the 1945 general election since it warned that a planned economy would lead to totalitarianism. Hayek asserted that individual freedoms could only be safeguarded by giving total freedom to the market to function without regulatory controls, which is why his work was used as intellectual justification for Thatcher's project. "The prosecution rests" are the words that spring to my mind.

[amateur51]

With you there Ff !!

I see Caliban as a Maximum Bob kinda guy (in another life, of course)

[eighthobstruction]

Maximum Bob : A "Twin Peaks"-like series. "Maximum Bob" is an ultra right-wing conservative judge in Florida who has a psychic ex-marine show mermaid for a wife.....Eh????? ¬/<**¬^`¬¬....

....who rides a bike!!

[amateur51]

Maximum Bob : A "Twin Peaks"-like series. "Maximum Bob" is an ultra right-wing conservative judge in Florida who has a psychic ex-marine show mermaid for a wife.....Eh????? ¬/<**¬^`¬¬....

....who rides a bike!!

I think you have to read the book, 8thO

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maximum-Bob-Elmore-Leonard/dp/0753822393/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366549242&sr=1-1&keywords=Maximum+Bob

I know nothing about the TV series - have you seen it?

[Anna]

I see Caliban as a Maximum Bob kinda guy (in another life, of course)

When someone delivers an alligator to Judge Bob Gibbs' porch, there's no shortage of suspects - hard-sentencing, womanising redneck 'Maximum Bob' is pretty much the most unpopular man in Florida. Throw into the mix the Crowe clan - about as primitive and aggressive as any alligator - a doped-up doctor on early release with a tag, quick-witted probation officer Kathy Baker, a mermaid and a long-dead slave girl called Wanda, and things get a tad complicated.

[Flosshilde]

Maximum Bob : A "Twin Peaks"-like series. "Maximum Bob" is an ultra right-wing conservative judge in Florida who has a psychic ex-marine show mermaid for a wife.....Eh????? ¬/<**¬^`¬¬....

....who rides a bike!!

Anyone remember the feminist slogan - 'A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle'?

[Nick Armstrong]

When someone delivers an alligator to Judge Bob Gibbs' porch, there's no shortage of suspects - hard-sentencing, womanising redneck 'Maximum Bob' is pretty much the most unpopular man in Florida. Throw into the mix the Crowe clan - about as primitive and aggressive as any alligator - a doped-up doctor on early release with a tag, quick-witted probation officer Kathy Baker, a mermaid and a long-dead slave girl called Wanda, and things get a tad complicated.

Sounds like a normal day on the R3 Forum... I can see Flay, Beefy, Pee, Frenchie... even you Anna... all represented there!!

I'll go with Maximum Bob, ammy

[amateur51]

Anyone remember the feminist slogan - 'A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle'?

I'm certain there are at least a couple of furrowed brows reading that on here, Flossie