[followed by trumpet fanfare] \ufffd Tom Lehrer '50s

[link|http://bookshop.libdems.org.uk/author.jsp?ID=68| Paul Richards] - for one ref.

(At least there are Liberal, Labour parties in UK - along with whatever the Tories are calling selves lately (besides Liege, Sire)). It's bloody insipid crap when there's only our One Party.. which can't figure out what it wants to 'conserve'. Clearly the vaunted US Constitution ain't one of the things)

ComPatriots.. hmm has a ring to it. I See ~~~
I See: The Winter pre-War Schedule !!!
Mud Wrestling in Arena at 11
ComPatriots VS ComSymps [Boo!]

Open rules:
\ufffd dangling participles and insipid slogans permitted
\ufffd that which is not prohibited is compulsory
\ufffd no *definitions* of blab-words required [One Night only!]

Door prize - Choice of
\ufffd John Wayne's first draft deferment notification, in aspic.
\ufffd Herb Caen's original tripewriter in glass-house case.

Well, there's +Fox's Saturday lineup for the winter.

+ Our imported Official Provider of Grossness in Meeja


Ashton
[Seriously though *cough* - I've never before seen the state of 'Language' over here, in such desperate straits. Every public utterance (not as usual - 'just most') is a baldfaced-Lie/Dissemble or the start of a Tissue-of. G\ufffdbbels possessed at least a pseudo-rationale within most fulminations; our 'writers' just spout unpolished turds. And.. hardly a peep, except from the Usual Suspects, who aren't reported anyway.]