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Mew Stone and Long Rock.

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Hi World.




Did you hear on the wireless six o'clock news this evening that MPs have been told that they are no longer allowed to sleep in their offices overnight? Not enough fire wardens on at night apparently. MPs are obviously so drunk and dangerous that they are likely to toss a lit match into their waste paper basket.. I fear they are too dangerous to be allowed any where near the Palace of Westminster as they will no doubt pass a load more legislation.



83% of voters believe that the county would run better without a parliment at all, which makes one wonder why they bother to vote.





While talking of things dangerous; have you noticed how dangerous it is to make jokes in an e-mail? Sarcasm and irony are so easily misunderstood, especially by one's nearest and dearest it would seem. A bit like most Americans, there are people in England whose sense of humour is still stuck in the third form dorm, or behind the secondary school bike shed, and no amount of explanation will get them to twig irony. "A joke? What's funny about that then?". The more you explain the worse it gets.



De Selby* devised a system for signalling when he was being humorous and it goes thus:



Irony is given a ~ symbol after it, sarcasm a # (or the word "not"). Satire he gives an SS to. A simple joke or tall story is J+.



To avoid offending the less subtle members of our species, I recommend the use of this system for your e-mail in future. Ideas to improve it on a postcard please.



*See "The peoples Atlas".



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