Comments on: Spirit of Community http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:46:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: roughshod http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8693 roughshod Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:02:18 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8693 Well, in the spirit of keeping our favourite pubs in business I'd like to direct all those interested in fighting the Government's draconian smoking ban to this site: <a href="http://www.thebigdebate.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thebigdebate.org/</a> where a petition is available to download and take to your local. Please take the time to print one off and circulate amongst friends, colleagues and of course, your local pub/social club/cafe. Well, in the spirit of keeping our favourite pubs in business I’d like to direct all those interested in fighting the Government’s draconian smoking ban to this site:
http://www.thebigdebate.org/
where a petition is available to download and take to your local. Please take the time to print one off and circulate amongst friends, colleagues and of course, your local pub/social club/cafe.

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]]> By: Joe Mental http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8692 Joe Mental Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:43:27 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8692 Quite correct raincoaster, umbrellas and hats probably help too. Quite correct raincoaster,

umbrellas and hats probably help too.

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]]> By: raincoaster http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8691 raincoaster Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:14:31 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8691 The higher the hair, the closer to God, or at least that's what they say in Nashville. The higher the hair, the closer to God, or at least that’s what they say in Nashville.

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]]> By: Joe Mental http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8690 Joe Mental Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:15:56 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8690 Quite possibly, if you're suggesting that you're nearer to me than God who, as everyone knows, resides at: No 1, Heaven, Farthest reaches of ecstatic imagination, FREI 777. I don't mind a good tune but I try not to mix it with clinical insanity. Quite possibly, if you’re suggesting that you’re nearer to me than God who, as everyone knows, resides at:

No 1,
Heaven,
Farthest reaches of ecstatic imagination,
FREI 777.

I don’t mind a good tune but I try not to mix it with clinical insanity.

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]]> By: Macarnie http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8689 Macarnie Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:05:26 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8689 Joe M: Whatv is with the tuba and theism? Tuba spelt backwards is abut; this meaans to adjoin, could it be that those playing the tuba in the Sall Ann are actually " Nearer my God , to thee ?" Joe M:
Whatv is with the tuba and theism? Tuba spelt backwards is abut; this meaans to adjoin, could it be that those playing the tuba in the Sall Ann are actually ” Nearer my God , to thee ?”

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]]> By: PaulD http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8688 PaulD Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:50:01 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8688 Joe, I fancy your PO box Christians have rather more to do with greedy self-styled evangalists and their gullible victims than with spirituality. Meant to say God was <i> giving</i> the lessons, not taking them. The price of tubas is the problem. A discussion for another time and place, methinks, if at all. Not exactly a new subject! Joe, I fancy your PO box Christians have rather more to do with greedy self-styled evangalists and their gullible victims than with spirituality.

Meant to say God was giving the lessons, not taking them. The price of tubas is the problem.

A discussion for another time and place, methinks, if at all. Not exactly a new subject!

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]]> By: raincoaster http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8687 raincoaster Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:30:47 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8687 I like what Bono said: the God I believe in isn't short of cash. Did you all hear about the time Oral Roberts told his flock (there were a LOT of sheep in that flock) that unless he could raise several million dollars, God had told him he'd die. Well, if I were a devout Christian, I'd probably be okay with the idea of dying and going to see God and all. I dunno what was in Oral Robert's conscience, and will avoid making cheap puns for once in my life, but apparently neither he nor his flock believed that he was going to have a good experience in the afterlife, and they coughed up the substantial ransom. I suppose God went to Vegas with it? I like what Bono said: the God I believe in isn’t short of cash.

Did you all hear about the time Oral Roberts told his flock (there were a LOT of sheep in that flock) that unless he could raise several million dollars, God had told him he’d die. Well, if I were a devout Christian, I’d probably be okay with the idea of dying and going to see God and all. I dunno what was in Oral Robert’s conscience, and will avoid making cheap puns for once in my life, but apparently neither he nor his flock believed that he was going to have a good experience in the afterlife, and they coughed up the substantial ransom. I suppose God went to Vegas with it?

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]]> By: Joe Mental http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8686 Joe Mental Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:01:10 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8686 Tuh! When he's finished working his way though Vaughan-Williams, I'd also be interested to know why he, allegedly, wants all this money sent to various post-office boxes. Whenever I'm in the States I seem to be inundated (no allusion to floods) with exhortations that God is short of a few bob and <i>desperately</i> needs me to cough up! Tuba lessons getting a bit steep? Tuh!

When he’s finished working his way though Vaughan-Williams, I’d also be interested to know why he, allegedly, wants all this money sent to various post-office boxes. Whenever I’m in the States I seem to be inundated (no allusion to floods) with exhortations that God is short of a few bob and desperately needs me to cough up!

Tuba lessons getting a bit steep?

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]]> By: PaulD http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8685 PaulD Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:03:49 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8685 Can't reach him just now, Joe. He's having tuba lessons. Can’t reach him just now, Joe. He’s having tuba lessons.

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]]> By: Joe Mental http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/21/spirit-of-community/comment-page-1/#comment-8684 Joe Mental Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:20:17 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=248#comment-8684 Thanks Paul, that's a tremendous relief. By the way, if you're on good terms with God, could you ask him to get all his adherents on Earth to stop being such dickheads? Thanks Paul, that’s a tremendous relief.

By the way, if you’re on good terms with God, could you ask him to get all his adherents on Earth to stop being such dickheads?

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