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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes


For satirical perspicacity par excellance.

Ah, gotta love 'Reg'!

Lizzytysh

Nobody is being "squelched".

Linda Ronstadt mouthed off at a concert. Some people cheered. Some people booed and walked out. The Reporter for the Las Vegas Sun gave her concert a lousy review. The owner booted Ms. Ronstadt from his property.

I count at least 3 constitutional rights here...speech, press and property. ALL of the people involved exercised their "rights." Linda had the right to wax lyrical about Michael Moore. The audience had the right to boo her and walk out mad. The reporter had the right to express his opinion about her sleep-walking through her songs. And the owner, believe it or not, had the right to fire her a-s.

Our rights are not "disappearing." Your faux-logical quantum leap from Linda In Las Vegas to the Holocaust is silly as well as obscene.

And Sir Elton should get a grip on his hair plugs and shut up about artists "living in fear."

Newsflash!

Saddam Hussein prefers Muffins over War!

American Muffins!!!

Saddam Hussein is spending his time in solitary confinement writing poetry, gardening, reading the Qur'an and snacking on American muffins and cookies. One of his poems is about his arch-enemy George Bush.
The intriguing glimpse of the former dictator's daily routine as he awaits trial on charges of war crimes and genocide was given to the Guardian yesterday by Iraq's human rights minister, Bakhtiar Amin, who visited Saddam in detention on Saturday.

Excerpt from The Guardian

I agree that all had those rights, Midnight. It's the absurd application of the rights for the highly-questionable reasons that is part of the process of the loss of rights. You and I are truly so much at odds on this issue that time will serve as our most effective mediator.

As for your Newsflash on Saddam [of course, he may be eating the standard-issue muffins, since I doubt he has menu choices], an ironic score on the premise that it was George Bush who prefers War over Muffins! but .

It's the absurd application of the rights for the highly-questionable reasons that is part of the process of the loss of rights.

Honey, you're just not making any sense here.

I think Elizabeth means the flagrant abuse of the Rights enjoyed by all, but manipulated by the few. Lawyers are experts at this form of word play. They play with words to bamboozle the less articulate.

I do not mean that Elizabeth is playing with words. I mean that she dislikes those who do play with words.

I am just pleased to see the the Democrats are distancing themselves from the hollywood crowd, and the Bush bashing and starting to wake up to the fact that it is going to take more than that to get the American peoples vote. Maybe I can restore my faith in that party, again.

United we stand, divided we fall.

It's been two days now and I am still trying to diagram that sentence.

You are so wrong Byron. Elizabeth positively frolics with words. She'd make the perfect lawyer.

Funny you should say that, Midnight . I had a relationship with an attorney [a very successful defense one] years ago, who tried to talk me into going to law school. However, no interest in that arena of practice, then or now. I'm not denigrating the profession. I enjoy talking with attorneys. I just have no personal interest in doing that to earn my money. Successful attorneys also tend to be 'great' orators. I am not at all in that category. For my own usage, I'm more adept at ~ and prefer ~ the written word.

Nonetheless, thanks for what I strongly suspect you intended as a left-handed compliment. I love your phrase "positively frolics with words." For some reason , I now just feel like a picnic, in the clearing near that field of daisies. I'll be wearing gossamer. You bring the crossword puzzles . I'll bring the blanket, Thesaurus, and Webster.

~ Lizzy

Mr Tony Blair says that we are at war again with Iraq and yet he neglects to mention muffins at all. This is the height of hypocrising and shows dreadful élan imo.

Paula, I have just voted.

Mrs Blair is well known for the quality of her muffins. Tony has no need to mention muffins, because it is taken as read that he regards his wife's muffins with total respect. There are few in this green and peasant land who do not show true defference to the aura that surrounds Mrs Blair's muffins.
She breeds them in a small underground shed in the back garden of number 10 Downem'all Street. Oft has been heard the cries of delight as yet another muffee enters this world to the joyous clapping and singing that acompanies these events. The amount of clap is only outdistanced by the reverence for the muffin mistress and her olde worlde art.
Rest in your beds this night, safe in the knowledge that despite heart scares and new houses, the undaunted Mrs Blair continues to entertain Tony wiv 'er muffins.

Byron,

I know you will celebrate, along with all peace loving people the world over the return to the t.v. of our champion.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressr ... ffin.shtml

Dear Rob,
Holy Sh*t !!!!
I remember Muffin the Mule, AND the signature tune!
It went something like this :
"We love Muffin, Muffin the Mule, we love Muffin, Muffin the mule" etc.
I don't know how to put chords onto a message board, but trust me on this: at my next attendance at a Leonard Cohen "meet-up", I will sing the song. Perhaps Pete could accompany me on his serious guitar
Nostalgia ain't wot it used to be.
Andrew.