Does your friend call you "puddin'" as in [with mush-mouth, corn-pone Southern accent] "Would you like some more puddin', puddin'?" Might take the elitist edge off! (View Post)

Was the expense of a "true" podium, what inspired John Major to tote along a "real" (?) soap box to the hustings in 1992? (View Post)

Gave you a pity like. (View Post)

Is not the UK starting to resemble the Venetian Republic, with London as the heart, focus and power center. And the hinterlands beyond the Metropolitan Pale similar to the Terrafirma on the other sid… (View Post)

Apparently (based on intensive 30-sec of googling) from their origins in late 19th-century, membership of National Union of Railwaymen (subsumed into RMT) was open to all (blue-collar) railroad worke… (View Post)