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The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 3:54 pm
by Neville Briggs
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.
Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 3:56 pm
by mummsie
Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 4:22 pm
by Maureen K Clifford
and a sleazy wink at that - he looked like he had a facial tic

Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 4:30 pm
by Bob Pacey
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
Bob
Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 4:40 pm
by Ron
Good one Nev,
Only way to treat it all, with satirical humour!
Ron
Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 4:44 pm
by Terry
Hi Neville
I agree with Ron.
Terry
Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 5:22 pm
by Neville Briggs
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.
Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 5:36 pm
by Heather
That little wink didn't work on me! He winks like he walks.....
Heather

Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 5:59 pm
by r.magnay
Heather wrote:That little wink didn't work on me! He winks like he walks.....
Heather

...with one eye shut?......

Re: The Things that Matter
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 6:01 pm
by r.magnay
Yeah Neville, the media must be pretty hard up for news!....