Comments on: Gulen, NPR and me http://blog.prospectblogs.com/2008/07/15/gulen-npr-and-me/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:40:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: The Bolter http://blog.prospectblogs.com/2008/07/15/gulen-npr-and-me/#comment-4898 The Bolter Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:37:12 +0000 http://blog.prospectblogs.com/?p=760#comment-4898 I really enjoyed listening to this item . It was refreshing to be reminded of just how innately well-mannered and intelligent many Canadians are ; and to hear folk laughing with rather than at intellectuals for a change. Plus which the chirpy end jingle was reminiscent of Bob Hope's Road to ... films. ( A welcome improvement on the chippy Irish hackette who - trying to make a name for herself ? - sneered at the idea c/o More4news ) Polls as a method of promoting reader participation and loyalty , ( advertising the title around the world is a bonus ) is all good and I look forward to many more in our favourite magazine. Have we had the top 100 dead intellectuals yet ? Several years ago, a flock of sombre faced comedians from the Dead Comics Society arrived to unveil a commemorative plaque to the late , incomparably great Terry Thomas , on a house a few doors away from ours . Sensing, en passant, the hesitant gloom, SOMEONE quipped : " Dead comics - you can't get enough of them " ... toothy grins all round I really enjoyed listening to this item . It was refreshing to be reminded of just how innately well-mannered and intelligent many Canadians are ; and to hear folk laughing with rather than at intellectuals for a change. Plus which the chirpy end jingle was reminiscent of Bob Hope’s Road to … films.

( A welcome improvement on the chippy Irish hackette who - trying to make a name for herself ? - sneered at the idea c/o More4news )

Polls as a method of promoting reader participation and loyalty ,
( advertising the title around the world is a bonus ) is all good and I look forward to many more in our favourite magazine. Have we had the top 100 dead intellectuals yet ?

Several years ago, a flock of sombre faced comedians from the Dead Comics Society arrived to unveil a commemorative plaque to the late , incomparably great Terry Thomas , on a house a few doors
away from ours . Sensing, en passant, the hesitant gloom, SOMEONE quipped : ” Dead comics - you can’t get enough of them ” … toothy grins all round

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