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I think Macarnie has answered your question more eloquently than could I. Perhaps Melissa could organise a blog round of MC once we have all understood the rules?

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sorry.

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as the actress said to the bishop.

[(high voice) I'll tell the vicar (deep voice) I am the vicar]

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I think Greatest Briton is open to nomination for the ladies. (I trust one of the grown ups will have a severe word with BJ to prevent his nominating Cherie – if the condition becomes aggravated we might have something out of P. G. Wodehouse on our hands. Didn’t Bingo Little fall for a revolutionary called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham who had a fondness for limeade?)

Indeed you may be in for the nomination yourself.

On another note we have found at work that the most tedious of meetings can be enlivened by legitmately getting the phrase ‘as the actress said to the bishop’ into the proceedings as often as possible. (Some colleagues didn’t quite get the rules of Mornington Crescent). For some reason the ladies seem quite good at it.

It shortens the meeting and seems to prevent the over officious from getting started on to a long PC ramble.

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The first two for me would be Stanley and Boris Johnson. I’m not sure if their achievements in 2005 count as ‘great’ as perhaps selfless heroic ventures are meant rather than just great men generally. Does it mean that Jack? We should perhaps be expecting a cameraman, journalist or general to win? Air ambulance or bystander who braved a rescue? Men who you think of as great guys is a pretty big category. Do you mean politically great? Who would the panel put forward as contenders? Answers on a postcard please.

Am I an actress Jack? I’ve given up that sort of thing. I’m not really bad you know, I’m just….drawn that way.

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I am sincerely apologetic for forgetting All Souls. I am incredibly embarrased to be thought of as PC. My holiday felicitations were as those I give to my Hindu and Muslim work mates who reciprocate at Xmas (I’m an atheist but a CofE atheist, so potentially a bishop. Jaq – are you an actress?).

Jaq’s comments about this being a Christian country are of course right. That’s our tradition and has served us well. As well as all the bad things that British Christianity is said to be responsible for, let us not forget that it was British Christians who were in the forefront of the anti-slavery campaign, the best traditions of the labour movement and genuine charitable enterprise. It is fashionable to sneer at charity as being patronising in certain circles but being patronised sure beats starving. It’s much better being an atheist in a Christian country than an atheist country.

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