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HOW LONG OH LORD TILL THE VOMITARIUM GAG er JOKE, HOW LONG?
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— 2 Nov 2005 mark sinker Comment

“Forgive me, my lords, it is my fault for mixing politics with wine. More tench, perhaps? Dormouse?”
I just turned on BBC2’s big-budget swank history drama ROME: this wz the first sentence I heard.

(ps it is v.instructive watchin[…]

“OK I work in investment banking but I used to read THE FACE in the 80s…
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— 2 Nov 2005 mark sinker Comment

… so I realise that having to deal w.yr recently deceased mother’s stocks and bonds seems a bit alien to you — therefore to make you feel more at home, here is a corporate newsletter dollied up as a FUNKY LIFESTYLE MAG!! The main to[…]

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