The Things that Matter

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The Things that Matter

Post by Neville Briggs » Thu May 22, 2014 3:54 pm

THE THINGS THAT MATTER.

Stop the presses; hold front page !
a crisis breaks into our age.
The moon goes dark, the sun won't shine
it is the hour of judgement time.
Apocalypse stalks at the gate,
salvation's time is very late,
if we don't try to keep our heads
we'll all be murdered in our beds.
So man the trenches, hold the line,
if we stay brave we should be fine,
but danger's worse than you might think,
for Abbott has been seen to wink.
Neville
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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by mummsie » Thu May 22, 2014 3:56 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
the door is always open, the kettles always on, my shoulders here to cry on, i'll not judge who's right or wrong.

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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by Maureen K Clifford » Thu May 22, 2014 4:22 pm

and a sleazy wink at that - he looked like he had a facial tic :shock:
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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by Bob Pacey » Thu May 22, 2014 4:30 pm

I believe that was more of a squint Maureen. If I was doing an on air interview and a pensioner told me that she manned the sex chat lines to earn a quid I reckon I might have developed a tic as well.


What a load of ;) ;) ;) ;)


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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by Ron » Thu May 22, 2014 4:40 pm

Good one Nev,
Only way to treat it all, with satirical humour! :lol:

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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by Terry » Thu May 22, 2014 4:44 pm

Hi Neville

I agree with Ron.

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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by Neville Briggs » Thu May 22, 2014 5:22 pm

Thanks for the replies everyone :)

The late Neil Postman wrote a great little book called Amusing Ourselves To Death in which he deals with the way newspapers feed the public appetite for the sensational by creating ''news" out of pure wind.
Neville
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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by Heather » Thu May 22, 2014 5:36 pm

That little wink didn't work on me! He winks like he walks..... :lol:

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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by r.magnay » Thu May 22, 2014 5:59 pm

Heather wrote:That little wink didn't work on me! He winks like he walks..... :lol:

Heather :)
...with one eye shut?...... :roll:
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Re: The Things that Matter

Post by r.magnay » Thu May 22, 2014 6:01 pm

Yeah Neville, the media must be pretty hard up for news!....
Ross

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