Talking of Noel Coward At the Coronation of QE2, Coward was watching the procession from a balcony on the route with some of his friends. As the huge and delightful Queen Salote of Tonga, accompanied by some maharajah went passed, in an open carriage in the pouring rain, one of Coward's friends asked who was accompanying Queen Salote. To which he replied, "I think it's her lunch."
Why on earth do you read such tripe? I've met you, you are an intelligent, level headed bloke - what are you doing slumming around the Sun website all the time?
Ooooooh Eaststander, how dare you! 1) I don't "slum around" the Sun website all the time. I have it listed among all the newspapers, most of which I read to some extent.</p> 2) People who refuse to read the basic tabloids, particularly when they are online and free, are depriving themselves of seeing how the other half live, what kind of news is pumped out and what slant is put upon it. When I want light entertainment I turn to the tabloids, usually in me lunchbreak. Then I read the Big Brother news for the same reason, so there.</p> 3) When I want serious comment or decent articles, then I'll look at the serious papers. But they too can be just as annoying in just as many ways.</p> 4) This particular article was given, unsurprisingly a high profile in the Sun, with piccies and other bits deemed good for light lunchtime discussion, which is what I expected it to attract, complete with accompanying wisecracks. My own views were genuine, in that I was attempting to express my disgust that people elevated into high places can dole out our cash on such tripe when there are so many other worthy causes. I recognise of course that some people's worthy causes are other people's tripe - but there you go.</p>
Heard her on Radio 2 today. Spit roast, apparently. She sounds like a bit of a pretentious windbag. They asked her what they would do with the pig afterwards, and she said, 'Well, the perfect scenario would be for it to be ingested. Preferably via spit roast'. Now thats a chat up line! You don't get many t-shirts in Top Man with that written on the front!
Couldn't they have kept the pig alive and done it with her dead? Don't think she would be too much of a loss. Could I get a £30k grant for that?