For many years I’ve been collecting Tom Swifties and Croakers (lines of dialogue where a pun is used in reported speech). Here’s a thread of my favourites (some made up by me, some just plain stolen), beginning with this one…
“I love camping,” Tom said, intently
As much as I disagree with @BorisJohnson and @NadineDorries on every political issue, I deplore this clear attempt by an anonymous Government social media account handler to make them look fucking idiots.
So 'Guido Fawkes' actually boasted about being groomed by a Russian spy & @afneil actually published it. I wonder why they both vilely abused @carolecadwalla during her tireless reporting of Russian infiltration & influence. And I urge you to keep a close eye on both of them.
So 'Guido Fawkes' actually boasted about being groomed by a Russian spy & @afneil actually published it. I wonder why they both vilely abused @carolecadwalla during her tireless reporting of Russian infiltration & influence. And I urge you to keep a close eye on both of them.
A man of his letters to impress his betters,
Was somewhat to Wordle inclined,
But each permutation caused great agitation:
One four letter word came to mind!
Please RT if you would like me to consider standing against @Jacob_Rees_Mogg again, as an independent for one term only. As before, I would step aside if a better unity candidate emerges, or if @UKLabour & @LibDems decide to fight each other & I would only further split the vote.
GREAT NEWS (again)
My ongoing campaign to limit the number of people retweeting this image and causing upset to Johnson has made great progress I am now so confident that nobody will RT it that I am going to tag in @BorisJohnson so he can see how well we're doing.
Thank you.
Dividing the world into vaccine haves and have-nots is like dividing a swimming pool so it has a "pissing end" and a "no pissing" end. We're still all in the same pool. Humanity has a shared epidemiological destiny. 8/
We did wait. The delay led to "one of the worst ever public health failures". Don't let anyone talk about hindsight. There was foresight from everyone apart from the politicians.
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