9 thoughts on ““I want to make Pet a Dame!””

  1. Cheney is indeed evil. I sincerely believe that he is. He is a man without scruples, who enjoys the idea of bad guys being tortured, and he pretends to be making the “tough choices,” when in fact, he is merely a sadist who is mostly concerned with his own financial interest.

  2. LOL.

    Well…what can I say?

    Actually, I’m Scottish so the main focus for me is on parliament in Edinburgh, where our First Minister is a man of great humo(u)r, warth and intelligence, and where we have First Minister’s Questions with a little more decorum and grown up behavio(u)r than in the Engish/British Parliament.

    I have to say that I get very angry watching this bunch of over-paid buffons waste half an hour of time that WE, the people, are paying by for asking stupid questions designed only to grandstand and embarrass. It’s probably good entertainment, and better than most comedy on TV, but perhaps they would be better trying to run the country, and spending a little less time trying to be comedians.

    That said, it seems from the lastest information, that they do put HUGE amounts of time and effort into getting every last cent they can in expenses and extras on top of their salary.

    However, I do sympathise with you guys. Having to live for 8 years with the inestimable Bush and and his evil VP must have taken the kind of spirit that made America great in the first place. Congratulations for getting through it!!!!! Not many nations could have.

    Actually I have diary with a Bushism for every day. Here’s todays: (329 days to go)

    “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family” (New Hampshire, Jan 27, 2000)

    Hum. They must have some funny practices in the Bush family. Here we put food on the table.

  3. Dave, they show The House of Commons on C-Span2 here some early mornings, and my husband and I thoroughly enjoy it! You know, the session where they question the Prime Minister. I think I enjoyed it more when Tony Blair (the neo-Catholic, blashPHEMER!, har de har) was there. The different district reps get up and rattle off their concerns, complaints, etc. What I like is that it’s all done in a dignified manner, with lots of good-natured “booing” and approval noises like they make in those old B&W English Rank movies where they show the guys in the powdered wigs. Over here, we have a shaven chimp who can’t speak a straight sentence!

  4. Ah. Apologies for my confusion and thanks for the clarification, Dave! My brain has been on Arizona desert time since returning to New England.

    Yes, PM Brown does seem like a rather dour and humorless (excuse me, humourless) sort of fellow. He needs to stop being a bean counter (as we call finance men here) and be more in step with the people.

  5. Oh dear no Doug. The frosty old fellow was not Richard, who isn’t in the least frosty, and not that old either. (I have indeed known Richard slightly for a good few years).

    I was referring to our “beloved” (or not) Prime Minister of England, who proposes people to the queen for honours. He is not known to smile. I can’t imagine pop music being his thing

    He was the finance minister for England for 10 years, and my reference to the cash registers was, it seems that one of his favourite passtimes was putting up taxes.

    Mourillio and The Little Shoemaker, both great friends of mine have added the dame tag to all their videos on Youtube, and I’m sure it made a big difference.

  6. Hmm… the cash register comment leads me to assume Davie has some familiarity with Richard. Many of the Petula videos on YouTube now have a link to the Damehood PETition, and I assume those have been a great help to the cause.

  7. Hum…. He’s a frosty faced old fellow. I’m not sure that pop music is his thing, even though he was a teenager in the Downtown era.

    I have difficulty imagining him relaxing listening to any kind of music, except the ring of cash registers.

    Fortunately there is some sort of committee now that’s supposed to do the recommending (saves the politicians the embarrassment of being caught later having given honours to those who passed them envelopes stuffed with used backnotes….)

    Anyway, there’s an honours list for the queen’s birthday in June, and one for New year… so we shall see.

    But well done to all the people who worked hard to get this thing publicised, including Irene Seaton, who started it all off, Richard, obviously, Doug, Mac Castro for the publicity they gave it here (Doug) and on Youtube (Mac), and Theo Morgan in England who seems to have emailed everyone in the world!

  8. Or should I say, “P.R. Brown, we’ve got Petula Clark here. Girls as sharp as her are something rare. But it’s sad. You won’t give her a look. You’d better add her to the U.K’s Damehood book ..”

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