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2004-11-10 Britain

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Posted by Ol_Dirty_American 2004-11-10 10:38:42 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I didn't think they still had beheadings in Great Britain. . . . Oh, I see, it's a metaphor. Darn!

Posted by Mike 2004-11-10 11:39:05 AM|| 2004-11-10 11:39:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Only half?

There they go - equivocating again.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-11-10 11:53:26 AM|| 2004-11-10 11:53:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Too bad, they're leaving the news mandarins untouched and sacking the sports and entertainment folks that actually provide value for the the money. Not the way to endear yourself to an increasingly dubious tax base.

Posted by RWV 2004-11-10 12:02:29 PM|| 2004-11-10 12:02:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 only half?

that's easy for you to say Barb.

Posted by half 2004-11-10 12:08:05 PM|| 2004-11-10 12:08:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The new dates will fuel speculation of unprecedented job cuts that bosses want to announce as far from Christmas as they can. A source said: "They know if they wait another week or two it's going into the Christmas period."
Bah and Humbug! The heartless money grubbing capitalistic pig management protecting their own gold plated existance while exploiting the poor downtrodden working bloke and at the very time Tiny Tim is expecting at least some mealy porridge at Christmas! Oh, this is the BBC...Oh, then nevermind. Four legs good, two legs better!

Posted by Don 2004-11-10 12:16:15 PM|| 2004-11-10 12:16:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 BBC, that hopeless, lounge-lizard agit prop politburo, anti-American, Arabist, taxpayer sinkhole, continues to indicate what is left of Al Brittania. Is there anything of relevance coming from that bigger island near Ireland (another case).

Posted by Erik 2004-11-10 1:00:26 PM|| 2004-11-10 1:00:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 bet they axe the "wrong" half

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-10 2:27:19 PM|| 2004-11-10 2:27:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Betcha a guinea that they don't sack any upper level management.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-10 3:14:40 PM|| 2004-11-10 3:14:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh come on, they'll just raise the television tax and keep them all on right?

Posted by RJ Schwarz 2004-11-10 4:11:16 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-11-10 4:11:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Ah, for the good old days, when "getting the axe" really meant something in England.

This lovely item is for sale:

OUR PRICE
Â£1,750.00
DESCRIPTION
Executioner's Axe. Circa 1650, 'Headman's axe'. Typical large crescent-shaped heavy blade with original wooden handle with the end cap carved into the shape of a human bone. Macabre in the extreme, this type of chilling original artefact could only have been made out of necessity. Identical to the one used in the last beheading in Britain, now on display in the Tower of London. This hideous axe must have been used in the execution of many famous people. Traces of wood worm in the handle, otherwise in Extremely Fine condition.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-10 4:24:37 PM|| 2004-11-10 4:24:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 this type of chilling original artefact could only have been made out of necessity

Eh. The carved end cap suggests an artistic flair to its construction.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-11-10 4:29:56 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-11-10 4:29:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 This is a disaster waiting to happen. Does anyone here really believe that these newly-unemployed lefty journos won't be immeidatley snapped up by ABCCBSNBCNYTLATETC?

Posted by AzCat 2004-11-10 8:57:47 PM|| 2004-11-10 8:57:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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