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Too soon?

Posted by Christopher Mc on Thursday, January 21, 2010, In : Humour 
Scientists have suggested that a powerful aftershock that rattled Haiti on Wednesday was caused my massive tectonic shifting when Ted Kennedy turned in his grave.
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So goodbye Mary Jo, I never saved you at all.

Posted by Christopher Mc on Sunday, August 30, 2009, In : Humour 
Excuse me for a moment, I think I just vomited in my mouth.

It's not swine flu - it's Kennedy Funeral.  Okay so he apparently went to confession before he died and therefore just about scrapes through the canonical requirements to get a Catholic funeral (though if it's the same priests he's been hanging with for the last forty years, well, I suppose they have it on their conscience). 

I saw a bit of the Left Hand of Darkness doing a eulogy - those of you with long memories will remember my fir...
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Does Rose Kennedy have a black dress?

Posted by Christopher Mc on Wednesday, August 26, 2009, In : Affairs 
Somehow I missed this, frankly bizarre, story - that Ann Widdecombe is tipped to be the next Ambassador of Great Britain to the Holy See.

I don't really see it.  Do these jobs not normally go to career diplomats from the FCO?

On a connected note, I read one of Ann's novels during the holidays and found it rather good.  An Act of Treachery is about a young French woman who falls in love with an older married German officer in occupied France.  Must track down the follow up - an Act of Peace.

Spe...
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