But I thought the Pope was (officially at least) against gay sex as well? I'm hugely confused, Ted...
As to Cable & Co, they remind me very much of the farmers in Co Down who produced statistics for the government's representative to show that they urgently needed new roads because trade had gone up so much. Next week they were back with more stats, showing that they urgently needed grant-aid because trade was so poor. The civil servant pointed out that this hardly tallied with the stats they had shown him the week before, whereupon their spokesman replied with a beguiling Hibernian smile, "Ah well ye see, last week's figures wiz produced for an entirely different purpose."
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Date: 2010-11-21 02:57 pm (UTC)As to Cable & Co, they remind me very much of the farmers in Co Down who produced statistics for the government's representative to show that they urgently needed new roads because trade had gone up so much. Next week they were back with more stats, showing that they urgently needed grant-aid because trade was so poor. The civil servant pointed out that this hardly tallied with the stats they had shown him the week before, whereupon their spokesman replied with a beguiling Hibernian smile, "Ah well ye see, last week's figures wiz produced for an entirely different purpose."