Concorde - A Great Future Behind Us.

Feb 08, 2011 10:51

It's easy to knock the crass commercialism of the London 2012 Olympics. That's why I keep doing it on a semi-regular basis.

But whoever decided to market a promotional toy of an aeroplane originally designed and built in conjunction with the French, and which hasn't flown commercially since 2003*, decked out with the official 2012 logo really ( Read more... )

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helice February 15 2011, 17:43:39 UTC
a new mouser has been appointed to Number Ten, Larry, by way of Battersea, let's hope he can trouce the rodents and knock the bi-peds into shape too. For photo, see your in box.

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sensaes February 15 2011, 19:54:26 UTC
Well, he's already made short work of that irritating female ITN political correspondent. (The one with the permanently gloomy demeanour, I forget her name. Did you see the scratches up her arm? Very impressive.)

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helice February 15 2011, 20:57:14 UTC
Glad to hear the boy's already drawn blood from the human idiots inhabiting that area. Let's hope he makes similarly short work of Sam Cam's stockings and nicks the baby Florence's bottle. Motto, 'Milk is wasted on babies!'

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7th_tableau February 16 2011, 22:16:00 UTC
Have you fucking stitched me up again? http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=225

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sensaes February 17 2011, 04:50:26 UTC
Ugh, definitely not. I propose a new category of "unintentional lumbering". (For what it's worth, they sent me the same link regarding agamemnon_club.)

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P.S. sensaes February 17 2011, 14:37:44 UTC
I'm stealing that fake hash-tag concept, and running away with it to the Bahamas. (Or at least to the Movie Archive/Gaffney Workshop.)

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Re: P.S. 7th_tableau February 20 2011, 11:20:17 UTC
I saw that. They Live is a good choice.

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