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The first sentence of the Gettysburg Address.

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
-- A. Lincoln

Today, I have created for the nation,
a New Labour cult of overloaded spin,
cheating and deception, sheer arrogant
conceit, moronic nonsense, half-truths
and quite rotten lies.
-- Tony Blair

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'The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores' - Morrissey

You must be wondering how the boy next door turned out,
Have a care, but don't stare, because he's still there.
Lamenting policewomen, policemen, silly women, taxmen,
Uniformed whores, they who wish to hurt you, work within the law.
This world is full, so full of crashing bores,
And I must be one, 'cos no one ever turns to me to say,
Take me in your arms, take me in your arms, and love me.

You must be wondering how, the boy next door turned out,
Have a care, and say a prayer, because he's still there.
Lamenting policewomen, policemen, silly women, taxmen,
Uniformed whores, Educated criminals, Work within the law.
This world is full, oh oh, so full of crashing bores,
And I must be one, cos no one ever turns to me to say,
Take me in your arms, take me in your arms, and love me, and love me.

What really lies, beyond the constraints of my mind?
Could it be the sea, with fate mooning back at me?
No it's just more lockjawed pop stars,
Thicker than pig shit, nothing to convey,
They're so scared to show intelligence,
It might smear their lovely career.
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores,
I am not one, I am not one.
You don't understand, you don't understand, and yet you can
Take me in your arms and love me, love me, and love me.
Take me in your arms and love me, love me, love me,
Take me in your arms and love me, take me in your arms and love me.
Would you do, would you do, what you should do,
Oh oh oh, Oh oh.

Some of the most tedious out-and-out bores:

Tony Blair.
Geoff Hoon.
Mo Mowlem.
Ann Widdecombe.
Everyone else in The House of Commons too.
U.K. authorities.
The Dome.
The Euro.
The European Union.
The Eurovision Song Contest.
The Hague.
Bono.
Gordon Sumner (Sting).
Michael Schumacher.
Tracey Emin.
Jim Davidson.
Steve Davis.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.
Damien Hirst.
David / Victoria Beckham.
Sven-Goran Eriksson.
Ulrika Jonsson.
Tim Henman.
Max Clifford.
Neil Hamilton.
Paul McCartney.
Roy Wood / E.L.O.
The Duke Of Edinburgh.
Mohamed Al Fayed.
Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
George W. Bush.
Donald Rumsfeld.
Russell Crowe.
Peter Tatchell.
Sophie Wessex.
Robert Kilroy-Silk.
Michael Winner.
Alan Titchmarsh.
Deborah Harry.
Omar Sharif.
Sheena Easton.
Kylie Minogue.
Ray Winstone.
Pete Townshend (The Who).
Eminem.
Desmond Tutu.
Harry Houdini.
Tammy Wynette.
Edward Van Halen.
Dave Lee Roth.
Thom Yorke (Radiohead).
The Duke and Duchess of Kent.
Walter Rudy Newboldt.
Australia.
Amelie Mauresmo.
Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours'.
Moonies.
Mormons.
Volvos.
Trinny Woodall / Susannah Constantine.
Tommy Cooper.
Tom Robinson.
Sylvester.
Tweety Pie.
Dick Dastardly.
Muttley.
Yves Saint Laurent.
The Two Ronnies.
Alanis Morissette.
Ursula Andress.
Midge Ure (Ultravox).
Timmy Mallett.
Musical Youth.
Geoff Boycott.
Courtney Love.
Ruby Wax.
Ian Woosnam.
Woody / Soon-Yi Allen.
Mary Whitehouse.
Peter O'Toole.
Henry VIII.
www.google.com
Lord Hutton.
Minnie Mouse.
Yoko Ono.

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Celebration - Kool & the Gang

Yahoo! This is your celebration!
Yahoo! This is your celebration!

Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on! (Let's celebrate)

There's a party goin' on right here,
A celebration to last throughout the years.
So bring your good times, and your laughter too,
We're gonna celebrate your party with you.

Come on now!

Celebration! Let's all celebrate and have a good time.
Celebration! We're gonna celebrate and have a good time.
It's time to come together,
It's up to you, what's your pleasure?
Everyone around the world, come on!

Yahoo! It's a celebration!
Yahoo! Celebrate good times, come on!
It's a celebration!
Celebrate good times, come on!
Let's celebrate!

We're gonna have a good time tonight,
Let's celebrate, it's all right.
We're gonna have a good time tonight,
Let's celebrate, it's all right.

Baby...

Ce-le-bra-tion!
We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right.
Ce-le-bra-tion!
We're gonna have a good time tonight,
Let's celebrate, it's all right!

Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Celebrate good times, come on! Let's celebrate!
Celebrate good times, come on! It's a celebration!
Celebrate good times, come on! Let's celebrate!

(ad lib)

Come on and celebrate, good times, tonight...
Celebrate good times, come on!
'Cause everything's gonna be all right...
Let's celebrate!
Celebrate good times, come on!
Let's celebrate!

Constitution - Cool Tone & The Gang

E - U! It's your Constitution!
E - U! It's your Constitution!

Corrupt mega-state! Come on!
Let's haemorrhage cash! Come on!

Labour does not want to see or hear,
What the electorate made only too clear.
Come on, agree to hand over to Schroeder and to Chirac,
Sorry, electorate - there ain't no way back!

Come on! Collaborate!

Amalgamation!
Let's create a big Belgo-Gallic-Teutonic state!
Cede to one ethnological agglomeration!
Governed by Belgian bootboys - I can't wait!

It's time to merge together,
No more to Great Britain sovereignty, ever.
Everybody, each sign away! Come on!

More committees and litigation...
- Sign here on the dotted line, I'll be on the T.E.E. gravy train.
Boost the other greedy, receiving nations,
Lose subsidies...billions go down the drain!
(They're all at it, believe you me!)

Conglomeration!
All toe the line! Obey! Capitulate!
Get to be a great big Neo-nation!
Else be categorically obsolete! Integrate!

Choose me! Elect me too! Elect me to be Euro President!

A real melee! Mega egos! Hot air! Lame rhetoric! Legalese babble!
Arse-to-elbow blather! Sheer bloody cobblers!

Good-to-eat creamy garlic-breath cheese! Eat Greasy amphibian legs!
Bittersweet chocolate! Mellow Edam cheese! Delectable
beetroot-red sweet cabbage! Cremated lamb! Higher-alcohol beer!

Legal bordellos? Oh, cool! Let's agree to go Dutch!

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Updated: May 10, 2016


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