Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Sentences I Wanted To Write This Week But Didn't

Without further ado...

Like his namesake, the legendary American journalist John Reed, British Home Secretary John Reid had once been a die-hard Communist in his youth.

Sources, however, could not confirm that Reid wants to be buried in the walls of the Kremlin like Reed (author of “Ten Days That Shook The World.”)


In recent weeks, Conservative Party Leader David Cameron has also burnished his environmental credentials by riding his bike to work in the morning through the streets of central London.

Though approaching middle age, with his Oxford education and upper class background, Cameron has been compared to Sebastian Flyte, the hero of Brideshead Revisited, the classic novel by Evelyn Waugh.

In particular, observers have been struck by the effect of the rising sun has had upon his floppy hair streaming poetically behind him in the wind - striking many of them dumb and causing them to mourn their own lost youth (along with the passing of the British empire.)

“Look upon him,” one of them sighed yesterday. “Is he not glorious?”


After sending out umpteen-billion press releases over the last five years, concerning his views on every last development in British politics under the sun, professor John Doe of Central East Gloucester University said that he “couldn’t think of a single thing to say” over the latest ICM poll.


After a brief discussion, Professor John Smith of Western Brompton College said that he “had no idea” why anybody would be asking him about the latest terrorist incident.

After further discussion, he pointed out that while his university bio did say that he was an expert in “terrorism,” it also clearly pointed out his area of specialty was the ETA movement in Spain of 1950s.

After more discussion, which could be characterized as “heated,” he added that it was “a big diff” and made some vague, somewhat disparaging comments on the state of American education.


Despite being called Islamofascists, several biographers of Benito Mussolini said this week that it was unlikely that the deceased Italian dictator would have recognized radical Muslim terrorists as kindred spirits.

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