Did He Really Resign?
Nov. 5th, 2014 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloShe gets fixated on particular headlines. This morning it's the final short paragraph in the Telegraph's editorial column- a piece of heavy-handed Tory humour at the expense of the resigning Lib-Dem Minister Norman Baker who has an interest in UFOs and fronts a rock band.
"Did he really resign?" she asks.
I tell her all about it.
"Did he really resign?" she asks again.
I've lost count but I think we've now been through the cycle five or six times.
Sorry, since I started this post she's asked again so that makes it that six or seven.
I try to vary my answers. That way I preserve the sweetness of my temper. I haven't yet said how feeble the humour is or how evil the Tories are, but I'm sorely tempted.
"Did he really resign?" she asks.
I tell her all about it.
"Did he really resign?" she asks again.
I've lost count but I think we've now been through the cycle five or six times.
Sorry, since I started this post she's asked again so that makes it that six or seven.
I try to vary my answers. That way I preserve the sweetness of my temper. I haven't yet said how feeble the humour is or how evil the Tories are, but I'm sorely tempted.
