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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Snoopy on December 22, 2010, 11:24:01 AM

Title: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Snoopy on December 22, 2010, 11:24:01 AM
Vince has been indiscreet. Some good fun for the headline writers today.

Torygraph Humiliated Cable Stripped of media role
(A nice pun there 'Cable stripped' ~ used by several other papers)

Others:
Cable's 'nuclear option': The fallout (Reuters)

Vince Cable Loses Out In News Corp 'War' (Sky News)

Has Vince Cable gone completely wireless? (Twitter tweet)

Humiliated Vince Cable hangs on after being stripped of media powers (Evening Standard)


And so on. The daft old fool has really dropped one this time.
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Nick on December 22, 2010, 11:29:18 AM
Why in the COmputer ROom?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Snoopy on December 22, 2010, 11:32:23 AM
 doh:  Admin cock-up .... I'll move it
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Darwins Selection on December 22, 2010, 11:33:27 AM
Vince has been indiscreet. Some good fun for the headline writers today.

Torygraph Humiliated Cable Stripped of media role
(A nice pun there 'Cable stripped' ~ used by several other papers)

Others:
Cable's 'nuclear option': The fallout (Reuters)

Vince Cable Loses Out In News Corp 'War' (Sky News)

Has Vince Cable gone completely wireless? (Twitter tweet)

Humiliated Vince Cable hangs on after being stripped of media powers (Evening Standard)


And so on. The daft old fool has really dropped one this time.

I am still waiting for "Telegraph - Cable fault", "Cameron isolates rogue Cable", "Cable goes underground" and "Cable stitched up by Telegraph"  whistle:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Snoopy on December 22, 2010, 11:34:23 AM
And with one bound Snoopy was free!  sparkle:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Barman on December 22, 2010, 12:47:39 PM
How on earth has the silly old sod hung onto his job...? Shrugs:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Barman on December 22, 2010, 12:48:01 PM
Um... cable I meant, not you Snoopy...  noooo:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Nick on December 22, 2010, 12:54:40 PM
 char048
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Grumpmeister on December 22, 2010, 12:57:30 PM
Um... cable I meant, not you Snoopy...  noooo:

We figured that BM, if it was down to age and daftness you would have been out before the hound.  lol:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Barman on December 22, 2010, 01:00:17 PM
Um... cable I meant, not you Snoopy...  noooo:

We figured that BM, if it was down to age and daftness you would have been out before the hound.  lol:

But, but, but...  confused2:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Grumpmeister on December 22, 2010, 01:03:10 PM
If it makes you feel any better old boy Nick would have been ahead of you.  lol:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on December 22, 2010, 04:17:08 PM
He was tricked poor lad.....they used the cunning disguise of presenting an unknown woman to him so he naturally had to implement the bragging and showing off genetically installed program  whistle:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Pastis on December 22, 2010, 04:24:51 PM
He was tricked poor lad.....they used the cunning disguise of presenting an unknown woman to him so he naturally had to implement the bragging and showing off genetically installed program  whistle:

I fear you have it in a nutshell. Much as the press now have his nuts in a pair of seasonal nut-crackers  noooo:
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Snoopy on December 22, 2010, 05:17:27 PM
Old enough to know better ~ Too old to see it coming.
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Pastis on December 22, 2010, 05:25:07 PM
Old enough to know better ~ Too old to see it coming.


Cunningly adapted from that line in St Trinian's?  ;)

"Hmmm, an awkward age; too old for Mother Goose, too young for Lolita"
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Snoopy on December 22, 2010, 05:25:55 PM
Old enough to know better ~ Too old to see it coming.


Cunningly adapted from that line in St Trinian's?  ;)

"Hmmm, an awkward age; too old for Mother Goose, too young for Lolita"

You know me too well Watson.
Title: Re: Let go fore and aft! Cast off the Cable!
Post by: Pastis on December 22, 2010, 05:27:43 PM
Old enough to know better ~ Too old to see it coming.


Cunningly adapted from that line in St Trinian's?  ;)

"Hmmm, an awkward age; too old for Mother Goose, too young for Lolita"

You know me too well Watson.

 lol: lol: