I.D.S.

On 11/2/03 2:02 PM, in article
[nq:1]I love him.[/nq]
Your constancy
Hath left you unattended.
[nq:1]Trick or Treat![/nq]
Thanks, sir: the like to you!
[nq:1]Too bad he is gone.[/nq]
Consider it not so deeply.
These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
[nq:1]Now nobody can make fun of him anymore.[/nq]
till Birnam wood

[nq:1]I love him. Trick or Treat! Too bad he is gone. Now nobody can make fun of him anymore. Comments? Bun Mui[/nq]
We can still make fun of him, Bun. He hasn't been vaporised. Only the second Tory leader in a 100 years not to be Prime Minister and the first never to contest a General Election. tee-hee.
Little known fact - he is one eighth Japanese.
Lesser known fact - he is distantly

[nq:1]I love him. Trick or Treat! Too bad he is gone. Now nobody can make fun of him anymore. Comments?[/nq]
The Noo Tories seem to be wasting no time in taking a far more hands-on approach. In The Guardian this morning the lead story about the downed helicopter in Iraq has been filed by "Michael Howard in Falluja".

Ross "Don't Look At Me; I Don't Know Him From Adam" Howard

[nq:2]I love him. Trick or Treat! Too bad he is gone. Now nobody can make fun of him anymore. Comments? Bun Mui[/nq]
[nq:1]We can still make fun of him, Bun. He hasn't been vaporised. Only the second Tory leader in a 100 ... will notice he's knocking on 70 and decide they need a younger model. Step forward the untarnished, preternaturally loyal David.[/nq]
Allegedly IDS is going to concent

[nq:1]Peeve - why does his wife call herself Elizabeth Duncan Smith? She married Mr Smith, whose forenames are George Iain ... and 'Iain Smith' has already been reserved for a place in ****. But it's got naff-all to do with Betsy.[/nq]
But a biographical page says his father was Group Captain W. G. G. Duncan Smith.
Plus, respectable news sources routinely call Iain Duncan Smith "Mr. Duncan

[nq:1]Allegedly IDS is going to concentrate on writing now that he's been ousted. One of the papers previewed his latest novel and it was pretty dire. Howard for PM? Not in my lunchtime.[/nq]
The worst thing is that like the Halloweeny Jason just when you thought they were dead, the tairbleh Tory pronunciations of my (not his; are we clear?) surname as "Hahd" and "Haird" look set to make an un

[nq:2]Peeve - why does his wife call herself Elizabeth Duncan ... in ****. But it's got naff-all to do with Betsy.[/nq]
[nq:1]But a biographical page says his father was Group Captain W. G. G. Duncan Smith. Plus, respectable news sources routinely call Iain Duncan Smith "Mr. Duncan Smith" where you'd otherwise expect "Mr. Smith." Have they been hoodwinked?[/nq]
No. There's a Conservative P

-snip re: Duncan as a given name in "Iain Duncan Smith"-
[nq:2]But a biographical page says his father was Group Captain ... where you'd otherwise expect "Mr. Smith." Have they been hoodwinked?[/nq]
[nq:1]No. There's a Conservative Pol born to Mr & Mrs Gummer who was given the forenames 'John Selwyn' and who ... to hyphenate it because more people would laugh at him than already do. I susp

[nq:1]RIDER - Yes, I know that people may call themselves what they wish so long as they don't do so with intent to deceive. I still don't like it. I just don't[/nq]
I wonder why I mean, historically there was a long period when no one had a surname, so in that sense, they're all invented.

I believe that in Iceland the surname is a 20th century invention it was a bureaucratic n

[nq:1]There's a Conservative Pol born to Mr & Mrs Gummer who was given the forenames 'John Selwyn' and who styled ... **** he sounded and now goes by plain 'John Gummer'. The media played along with him because they wanted interviews.[/nq]
Do you happen to know whether erstwhile Leader of the Hice Norman St John (****. singein') Stevens was/is really called "St John Stevens, N." or actually "S