and to start it off, here’s something from The Observer
Things they wish they had never said
‘As Wembley is synonymous with tennis, so snooker is synonymous with Sheffield’ – Sports Minister Richard Caborn flaunts his grasp of the new brief
‘The French have no word for entrepreneur’ – George W Bush fails to resurrect Franco-US relations
‘They are all notoriously hideous’ – Orlando Fraser, prospective Tory candidate for North Devon (and likely to remain so), when asked if he would marry a local girl
‘An extremely disturbed person’ – Children’s Minister Margaret Hodge’s opinion of former abuse victim Demetrious Panton
‘I’m England’s answer to J-Lo’ – is ‘schadenfreude’ in Martine McCutcheon’s lexicon?
‘The quiet man is here to stay… and he’s turning up the volume’ – Iain Duncan Smith. Two weeks later he was out on his ear
‘I do not borrow on credit cards, it’s too expensive. I have four children. I give them advice not to pile up debt on their cards’ – Barclays Bank chief Matt Barrett has a Ratner Moment before a Commons Select Committee
‘I’m doing very well. I’m selling a lot of Charlie and I’ve got three sports cars’ – Cocaine dealer Raymond Casling’s boast on the Friends Reunited website. The police read it shortly before arresting him
‘I have absolutely no doubt that these weapons of mass destruction exist’ – Tony Blair cries in the wilderness
‘Really, if I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would’ – Maryland’s ‘First Lady’, Kendel Ehrlich, in an aside at a domestic violence prevention conference
‘Gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman’ – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger sets the Californians straight
‘Reports that say something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know’ – Donald Rumsfeld scoops the Plain English Campaign’s Foot In Mouth trophy
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You want an Observer article?
If you want to read an article from the Observer, check out Geraldine Bedell’s feature on Bahrain from last week. As a taster here’s her conclusion:
So Bahrain, with its tentative political reforms, finds itself pivotal. It would be nice to think that this little island could offer a blueprint for a peaceful transition in the Gulf, not least since the alternative is almost certainly terror, possibly revolution and, perhaps, global economic disaster. And it seems funny that I used to think that this stony outcrop with its palm trees and dhows, where I tried to become an adult, was a bit dull. Now it feels like one of the most interesting places in the world.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1105824,00.html
Wow! Bahrain – all that stands between civilisation and the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Re: You want an Observer article?
Thank you VERY much for bringing this to my attention. I really fount it educational, looking at us from a westerner’s point of view, more importantly someone who’s lived here, left and came back again for a visit. It is hard hitting, relavent and to the point.
I love it!
If you haven’t read it, please click here NOW. You won’t be sorry.
Thank you once again.
Mahmood