Six feet under
Nothing more will be said about John Prescott’s private life here other than to note that the Deputy Prime Minister was always one to call a spade a spade and yet today was a fine day to inhume infelicitous tidings.
Posted on April 26th, 2006 at 7:35 am
This is what I thought when I heard about this one, and listening to Radio 5 this morning there where apparently an aweful lot of other other people texting in with the same impression.
That can only be good news. Seemingly, scepticism about the Government is fast evolving from a learned trait into a hard-wired facet of the public’s thought processes. It’s becoming a Pavlovian response.
I need only to coin a sexy name for this, like Dawkins’ “meme”, and retire.
I must say that if I had the nickname “Two Jags”, I would think long and hard before giving anyone the occasion to call me “Two Shags” and probably give up.
btw, Justin, I think it was Robert Anton Wilson who noted that while we have “conspiracist”, “paranoid” and so on, to describe that kind of person, it is curious that there is no concise word or phrase in the English language to describe someone who is terrified and suspicious of his government for completely rational reasons.
How about “Two Bags”? Under his eyes, you understand.
It’s the old “just because you’re paranoid it doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you” thing, isn’t it? The Friday Thing have a Neologist’s Corner asking for suggestions for words to sum up actions that haven’t yet been pithily encapsulated. I’ll suggest your idea…
May I be filthy enough to say the following:
“The Orifice of the Deputy Prime Minister”
/coat
“it is curious that there is no concise word or phrase in the English language to describe someone who is terrified and suspicious of his government for completely rational reasons.”
Citizen?