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bellinghman ([personal profile] bellinghman) wrote2010-02-03 10:57 am

Coventry's a funny place

As a woman found out when she was carded for quiche.

ETA: there seems to be a certain amount of scepticism about the report. Surely, people, you don't disbelieve what's been printed in a bunch of British newspapers, do you?

Re: ETA

[identity profile] silly-swordsman.livejournal.com 2010-02-03 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Herewith a copy of a Tweet by Neil Gaiman (a.k.a. @neilhimself):

"This is why I stopped being a journalist in 1987. Just as true today: http://bit.ly/7qIV1t."

Re: ETA

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2010-02-03 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.


Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940)