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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
2:05 pm [ruudboy]	Via webofevil: (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
12:17 pm [nja]	Take that, Charles Darwin! I wonder if the presenter of the Channel 4 programme The Genius of Charles Darwin can explain the origin of the species of angels? They are mentioned in St Luke's Gospel, Chapter 2. Frank Evans, Enderby. (Also from Frank: God is better than Football). (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
12:26 am [ruudboy]	I think this one ticks every box. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
1:55 pm [offensive_mango]	surely a hoax Bags not strong enough I WISH the scientists would get it right with polythene bags. Two years ago I filled several with leaves. Last week I went to spread the leaves as a mulch. The bags just disintegrated. Surely it's not too much to ask, polythene bags that last for years. John Swain, Brooklands Road. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
10:49 am [nja]	The British tradition of queuing can sometimes be refreshing if practised philosophically. Man prefers traditional cashier services rather than so-called "banking-machines". (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 28th, 2008
11:29 am [nja]	There aren't enough people whistling today Wednesday morning, while I was sitting in the waiting area at my dentist's in Birstall, I was quietly whistling, as I often do, when an elderly woman came in and went to sit opposite me. Before she sat down, she told me to stop whistling because it annoyed her. I asked her why it annoyed her and she said because there was no tune to it (she had been in the place a matter of seconds). I asked her if she would like me to whistle a "tune" for her. She gave me such a glare and promptly pulled out a paperback from her bag, so I continued to whistle quietly when she suddenly said: "I expected you would carry on, you mindless idiot." I told her there was an empty room behind her and she would be better off sitting in there. She deserved something a lot stronger, but I took her age into consideration. But honestly, how miserable and rude can you get? As far as I am concerned, there aren't enough people whistling today - not like years ago. We always whistled to ourselves, didn't we? I hope she had a bad filling! G Allen, Rothley. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, December 7th, 2007
2:08 pm [offensive_mango]	Why do Christians celebrate Christmas? ( as Rusty Shackelford says in the first comment, 'Now even the Christians are trying to take the Christ out of Christmas. Bill O'Reilly and Fox News will not be amused. I think Herb is just trying to get out of buying a present for Mrs. Page.' ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
4:12 pm [offensive_mango]	time travel Osama I see where some people are mad because terrorist supporters affixed Osama bin Laden's head as an association with Jesus. It makes me think of all the TV shows, where people go back in time; thinking they can change the world by preventing Abraham Lincoln from being assasinated, or something like that. Hey, if I could go back in time and catch a couple of primitive Roman soldiers taking Jesus to the cross; and knock them out and replace Jesus with Osama, so he would get crucified and Jesus could escape to anonymously continue to do great things in the world, and still get credit for dying for our sins, I'd do it! And of Osama; say: "Good Riddance!" And I don't know about you, but I'll bet a week's pay that Osama will not rise three days later. As long as they don't replace Jesus before he healed the sick, restored sight to the blind and brought Lazarus back from the dead, I'm not worried about it; because I'd bet a year's pay that after being crucified; Osama is not going to rise from the dead in three days. - Robert Norwine (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
2:33 pm [offensive_mango]	Makaleigh Shaye: why I haven't picked up my dry-cleaning yet. New Arrival I have my first granddaughter. And I have typing to do that should have been done two days ago, but I don't care. I have a new granddaughter. She's beautiful, even though she has a bruise around her eye from the battle of 24 hours of labor. There are puffs of dog hair everywhere I look in on the ground floor of my house, but I don't care. I have a precious little fuzzy head that will lay on my shoulder. There is dirt from the garden tracked all over my house, but I don't care. There is a new little life that will smile for me when she won't for other people. There is a stack of books and magazines that have been sitting in a chair for a week, but I don't care. Makaleigh Shaye is here, and she is the cutest baby in the world, beating out her mother and aunt when they were babies. There are two days of dishes stacked up in the kitchen sink, but I don't care. After 24 hours of labor and a C-section, my daughter and son-in-law have given me the gift that reminds me of how unimportant 99 percent of things in this life are, a gift who will remind me again and again of how good God is, a gift that will make me smile and laugh and rejoice in the simplest things, a precious gift that will renew my spirit and make me want to be a better person. My house is a mess. my work sits undone. I have bills to pay. but I don't care. Makaleigh Shaye is here to remind me of what life is really all about. Cindy Rush Conway (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
5:25 pm [offensive_mango]	global warming ( It's under a cut because it's a big image. But you want to read it! You really really do! ) (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
3:48 pm [mr_tom]	Insert usual Tom Lehrer gag here. The words of the prophets are written on the local newspaper comment sections. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
9:27 pm [ruudboy]	Everyone on the letters page of the London Lite tonight can just fuck right off. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 31st, 2006
1:13 pm [restingpedant]	Bill Williams writes in time-honoured fashion to the Argus to put everyone straight about Brighton's forthcoming summer Pride event. Say what you like, but you can't fault his placement of quotation marks. PROUD OF WHAT? With reference to "Gay Pride", may I ask what the participants take "pride" in. I think of "taking a pride in one's achievements", "taking a pride in one's family" and, if you were in the forces, "taking a pride in fighting for your country". So, what do gays and lesbians take pride in? Indulging in grossly obscene sexual acts with members of the same sex? Is that what they take "pride" in? Bill Williams Twyford Gardens, Worthing (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
2:52 pm [nja]	Unacceptable Say no to "booze"! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 1st, 2006
8:45 pm [mockduck]	Evening Argus, Brighton Letter: Ungentlemanly From the archive, first published Tuesday 27th Jun 2006. What on earth is John Gammon on about re the would-be nude cyclist protestors (The Argus, June 17)? He says "these are not paedophiles". Well, I'm afraid unsolicited open nudity on our streets in front of the general public, which obviously includes children, is legally an act of indecent exposure and clearly comes rather close to a paedophile crime. Brighton is certainly a tolerant place - from Clifford Musgrave's history we learn there were nudist beaches in 1850 - but Victorian traditions at least taught us not to be ungentlemanly. Nowadays, unsolicited nudity may be seen as sexist too. And if anyone tries to claim children are more likely to be killed by cars than by paedophiles, imagine the fuss if they tried to use arguments like those to play down racist and homophobic attacks. Protestors should grasp that Lady Godiva is the stuff of myth. -Richard Whitehouse, Brighton (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 15th, 2006
4:28 pm [nja]	Isaac was a Hebrew Is this the dullest letter ever? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
12:58 pm [nja]	Woolies Alas, she rejected the tortoise (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, April 24th, 2006
12:10 pm [nja]	Fruit salad misery I always made strenuous efforts to treat everyone else to the cherries. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
2:18 pm [spiritof1976]	It's a bit of an exercise in demolishing straw men, but I do enjoy browsing through the letters page of the Socialist Worker to look for amusing examples of stupidity. There's a good un in this week's issue. Mark Brown is right to say that Hamas’s election victory in Palestine isn’t a step backwards (Letters, 11 February). But I think his analysis is overly critical of Hamas. The vote for Hamas was more than a protest vote against the corruption of the Fatah party and its many compromises with Israel. People voted for Hamas because of its record of fighting against Israeli oppression and its progressive position on Palestinian statehood. Hamas’s use of suicide bombings and the organisation’s religious nature – unsurprising in an area with a significant proportion of Muslims – are not the criteria for judgement. The question is whether or not Hamas lead the struggle forward. And in the face of US and Israeli dominance, this cannot be achieved solely through the Palestinian Authority. It rests on the ability to link the Palestinian struggle with wider forces across the Arab world – especially in Iraq and with the rising tide of resistance in Egypt. Colin Smith, North London So, Colin Smith of North London, someone using a suicide bomb to blow up himself and a crowd of terrified civilians is something that you really wouldn't want to judge them on? I suggest you avoid doing jury service. Still, glad to hear that Hamas' "progressive position on Palestinian statehood" (something about wiping Israel off the face of the Earth, if I remember rightly) is the criteria for judgement. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, February 20th, 2006
3:14 pm [jollityfarm]	In the offchance you haven't seen it... Daily Mail Letters. Some poor chap sifts through the letters of the Daily Mail and puts his favourites up there :) (Comment on this)