Comments on: Got it!

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:20:00 +0000

Lenin is married? And his mother-in-law *used* to say …? what happened to her? And was she fat?

By: James O

James O — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:54:00 +0000

Dick Emery was Lenin’s mother-in-law? The history books will have to be re-written after this one

By: lenin

lenin — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:20:00 +0000

Mark Thomas isn’t an SWP member, but I suppose the convention would be that we don’t believe in property. As my mother-in-law used to say to me, "you are awful, but I like you".

By: dsquared

dsquared — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:38:00 +0000

Len, is there a convention in the SWP that party members are allowed (or even obliged I suppose) to nick each other’s jokes and pass them off as their own? Because the one that John links to above comes from Mark Thomas’ stand-up act in the 1980s, quoted in the book "Reasons To Be Cheerful" by Mark Steel.

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:52:00 +0000

Tim, there's a book in that story.

Or an ITV 1 Drama Premiere.

By: lenin

lenin — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:35:00 +0000

John, you’re too soft. Smack em up, I say! It’s the only language they understand. God knows I’ve tried to speak to them in a sufficiently mono-syllabic fashion, but they just grunt and repeat the phrase "If you don’t get off my foot, sir, you’ll be arrested. And then I’ll bugger you with this truncheon".

By: john b

john b — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:03:00 +0000

"Some sympathy" coming from the whole "we pay their wages so they bloody well ought to act like our servants not our masters" thing, rather than a literal endorsement of violence.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:00:00 +0000

Coem to think of it, we pay the firefighters’ wages. It’s we who whould be entitled to set fire to buildings with people trapped inside. Obviously.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:58:00 +0000

Surely the police are just the armed wing of the civil service. I'm not fond of them myself.

John,

Are your employers entitled to knock you about a bit?

By: Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:56:00 +0000

As a rabid right whinger I’d just like to point out that I do not think coppers are just great. Idle spongers the lot of them.
But then I do think my views might be slightly coloured by the Detective Sergeant who nicked my girlfriend while investigating me.