"SNORTY BOY, Skinner is banned for drugs jibe at Tory MP",

was the headline of a very funny article (URL below) appearing in the Daily Mirror today. Skinner known by the Tories as the "Beast of Bolsover", has a unique style for someone in a profession, in which some measure of duplicitous sweet-talking would be considered a minimal requirement.

I only saw Skinner once on TV, when he was being interviewed many years ago, and was astonished by the way he snarled at the interviewing journalist in a fiercely hostile manner. I don't think the journalist's tone was overtly hostile; he was probably just peddling the usual dishonest, covertly hostile line of the Establishment, i.e. talking as if it was self-evident that it was incumbent on the workers in an industrial dispute to cave in, because of all the trouble and disruption caused by their action or inaction. There was no question, of course, of the intransigence of the bosses being the stumbling block to peace and harmony. Anyway, I've never seen him interviewed on the box since! They daren't have him on a genteel program such as "Question Time", because he would be an overnight sensation. Here's the URL:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_objectid=16463984%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html

And strangely excited.

This is merely proof that Skinner is indeed omnipotent and everywhere all at once. All glory be to Skinner, forever and ever, Ramen. DU probably doesn't pay all that great anyway; a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do :shrug:

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Hey, I've just heard a seditious Scottish journalist on the box alluding to the affair, and describing coke as the "Conservatives' marching powder"!

:-)

except for those damn automatic camera tickets that get mailed to me!

The 35 in a 25 for $50 week later letter really ruins the DC experience - IMHO.

:-(

Is it something to do with smoking cocaine in paper currency? I'll drag myself away from Boston Legal for a few seconds. What a show, and what a star in that role Shatner is!

take a picture of my car and then mail to my home a letter with the picture and tell me I owe "X" dollars for speeding - giving me the exact mph I was going in the lower mph zone the camewra was located in.

There is no real appeal possible.

And driving 25 miles per hour is hard!

At least for this old fart!

:toast:

:-)