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How about A4e's Emma Harrison , the closest thing to Marie Antoinette in Sheffield - for Versailles think E's £5 million Derbyshire pad , after all who wants to rub shoulders with the great unwashed ?

Blunkett as Robespierre - talk about a Tale of Two Cities ...

 

Let the unemployed eat cake ! So where do we put the guillotine ? Top of Fargate ? Better brush up on me knitting skills .

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How about A4e's Emma Harrison , the closest thing to Marie Antoinette in Sheffield - for Versailles think E's £5 million Derbyshire pad , after all who wants to rub shoulders with the great unwashed ?

Blunkett as Robespierre - talk about a Tale of Two Cities ...

 

Let the unemployed eat cake ! So where do we put the guillotine ? Top of Fargate ? Better brush up on me knitting skills .

 

best reply yet - emma harrison going up fargate on a tumbril - only to be awarded yet another bent contract just as the blade drops ...............

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Pedant's note:

It's not a golden jubilee. Here's why:

 

1. Golden = 50th. anniversary. HM The Queen's Jubilee was in 2002 (= 1952 + 50).

2. Diamond= 60th. anniversary.

3. BUT a jubilee is by definition ONLY a 50th anniversary.

4. 'Jubilee' derives from the Hebrew 'YOVEL' [= 50th year, immediately following each seventh set of seven years wherein each seventh year is a sabbatical year].

 

Hence 2012, marking the 60th anniversary of Her Accession, is just a 60th (Diamond) anniversary.

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Pedant's note:

It's not a golden jubilee. Here's why:

 

1. Golden = 50th. anniversary. HM The Queen's Jubilee was in 2002 (= 1952 + 50).

2. Diamond= 60th. anniversary.

3. BUT a jubilee is by definition ONLY a 50th anniversary.

4. 'Jubilee' derives from the Hebrew 'YOVEL' [= 50th year, immediately following each seventh set of seven years wherein each seventh year is a sabbatical year].

 

Hence 2012, marking the 60th anniversary of Her Accession, is just a 60th (Diamond) anniversary.

 

pedantry accepted, but exactly how many years a bunch of interbred german halfwits have continued to be our heads of state without resort to the inconvenience of an election is pretty much irrelevent.

 

it's the cold steel sheffield blade that counts.

 

whooosh - chop!

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