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By: nick s

nick s — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:43:48 +0000

Does that make the Daily Mail a bogus columnist support agency?

(Knowing a few of the smudgers at the Mail, who are cynical bastards, and usually not of the paper’s political persuasion, I hope the ambiguity was quite deliberate.)

By: P O'Neill

P O'Neill — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:59:01 +0000

Anyone know whether they got the capitalisation right in the print edition?

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:14:20 +0000

Tragically, one must assume that the usual Daily Mail sub-editor wrote the headline.
the Bill & Ted reference is real, mind – remember John Major calling something a “bogus sham”? He picked the term up from oner of his kids, I imagine.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:04:35 +0000

Von Bladet, are you Ted Rogers returned from the grave?

By: sherlock von bladet, analytic detective

sherlock von bladet, analytic detective — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:49:55 +0000

Hmmm, let’s see. A bogus child, so presumably a doll. A child support? Perhaps some kind of cradle or crib. So a bogus child support would be a doll’s crib, such as is found, at this time of year, in nativity scenes. So the bogus child support agency can only be…

[pause for effect]

The Church! Melanie Phillips wants to abolish the church!

(It’s amazing what you can do with a little elementary clarity and rigour, isn’t it?)

By: brendan

brendan — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:33:00 +0000

Isn’t ‘totally bogus’ a phrase from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure? Maybe she is complaining that the CSA only helps, y’know, like, totally bogus kids, instead of like rad dudes, yeah?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:14:34 +0000

Pass the crack pipe, Mel…

By: ajay

ajay — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:59:33 +0000

-It’s a baby!
-For heaven’s sake, Penelope. How many times? It’s not a baby, it’s a balloon.
-Charles, how could you? It’s a baby!
-It’s a balloon, Penelope.
-It’s a baby! – It’s. A. Balloon.
(pop)
-Pig!