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Bloopers

Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Saw this in the Guardian yesterday December 19th, 2005 in the Media Guardian and had myself a good chuckle Tom Tickell- an appropriate name compiled this and here are some of the selections


Once separated from the rest, the baboon’s a sitting duck”.
Steve Leonard, BBC 1

“Que Sera, Sera, they chanted in English.”
Henry Winter, Daily Telegraph

“Fire alarm help for dead people.”
Worksop Guardian

“Woman made most senior female officer.”
Press and Journal

“Stiff competition for best cemetery.”
Yorkshire Post

“It would be like chasing a dead duck round a farmyard.”
Chris Patten Radio 4

“I think I should put my feet where my mouth is.”
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Radio 4

“Council to make rubbish decision.”
Belper News

“Some of our greatest figures have been adulterers. Regrettably, the days have vanished when the ability to do the job in hand came in first.”
The Times

“Gilbert and George….. see the hooded sweatshirt as clothing version of the foreskin- a simple way of expressing your masculinity”
Janet Street-Porter, Mail on Sunday

“The door is wide open for [Tiger Woods] to kick it in.”
John Inverdale, Radio 5 Live

“Bush: One of the worst disasters to hit the US.”
Sky News caption for damage caused by Hurricane Katrina

“At the end of the day, you’ve got to have the balls to be feminine.”
Susannah Constantine, BBC 1

“He has lit the fuse to a match that was already boiling.”
Alan Parry, Sky Sports

Happy reading!

Cameron

Wednesday, December 07, 2005
The Tory party has spoken and voted in the young Turk, good luck to them but why have they selected a Blair clone. Oh if that George Osbourne continues with that shrill and strident tone I can see that there will be trouble ahead. Boy that man has the most horrible sounding voice. It is really irritating and so grating. The Tories believe that their fortunes are changing and good luck to them but they had better not have that Osbourne on the opposition front benches.

Dependence

Saturday, December 03, 2005
At the job interview I was asked a question about dependence and how to wean African women from dependence. That question took me by surprise, what is about lack of understanding of the conditioning that African women are reared up on, we are educated from an early age that it is men who will provide for us as fathers, husbands and even sons in our dotage... Then when as forward thinking women realise that salvation does not come from outside, we then become religious where are told that God, the almighty will provide... Further to this when we have disasters of biblical proportions we see white people fundraising for us, speaking for us, feeling our pain. How do we wean those who are dependent into being independent? That question is still beating a drum in my mind as to the answer..

I was feeling melancholic feeling blue and the cold was deep in my bones when over the horizon there was beautiful rainbow that took my breath away.....

Thursday, December 01, 2005
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I really wish I had the words to say what HIV/Aids has meant to me as an African woman living in the United Kingdom, the blame, the stigma and the prejudice. The lack of understanding and even the ignorance that surrounds this disease. I wear my Red Ribbon with the humility of knowing that there have been so many needless deaths, so much fear and that there are times when words can never be enough. You do not have to be HIV positive to understand. There will be assumptions made about me by those who do not know me. I took part in a poster campaign in 1991 and people's reaction was incredible.

Train Journey

Went for a job interview to Eastbourne from East Croydon and the station announcer said we should get in the first 4 coach of the train as it separates at Haywards Heath. Well l got in the first coach which, as it happens was the First Class compartment, I did not check to see, just went in as the men were being slightly pushy. The train was new and l noticed that the seats were comfortable; realising it was new it did not occur to me that it was the First Class coach. The notice also read and with the train announcer saying over the tannoy that the train has a First Class compartment and if you are sitting in it you may be liable to pay the fare difference. I seriously did not think I was in the First Class compartment until my return journey when I sat in the the third coach, the floor was different, the seats were hard, the writing surfaces were smaller and puny and there was something different in sitting in this coach as compared to the First Class one- yeah pesa na pesa. Even the smell is different like the vents exude a different smell- the seats are hard. Oh well time to rethink my First Class position.