wicked whinge of the west
In the wake of last week’s Republican nominating convention, La Cieca was just thinking to herself, “what the world needs now is another overprivileged white male complaining about political correctness.” And, lo and behold, her wish was granted in the form of an interview with none other than Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber:
“So many people nowadays are obsessed with things offending people. Today people say you can’t do this because it will offend that community, and then you can’t say this because the Muslims will be offended by it and we’ll end up being talked out of it. Talked out of ideas.”
Among the explosively controversial projects Lloyd Webber is currently working on: a sequel to Phantom of the Opera, and a TV reality series casting the role of “Dorothy” for a stage revival of The Wizard of Oz. He mentions that the program may (just may, mind you) go on to cast the role of Toto as well, but La Cieca is sure that these days, they’ll be forced to call the character an infidel dog.
[via The Press Association]
Quite – I wasn’t going to mention that, but it was the first thing that came into my head on hearing the name
Me too!
Josephine… glad you had fun bashing Renee… next time, try to be WITTY so we can enjoy it too….
Oh really, pay attention to Josephine’s irony, young man.
I think Josephine is one of our most incisive posters.
A FASCIST CHEERLEADER FROM ALASKA, SHE REMINDS ME OF THE KINDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPEND THEIR FREE TIME PICKETING OR BOMBING ABORTION CLINICS.
its early, but i dont see the irony or insight… just disjointed comments. sorry.
ANYWAY, Kundry’s Therapist and Miss Ping, my NY newsman to whom I forwarded your amusing Britcommentary tells me: ‘I understand Bristol was named for Bristol Bay, Alaska, which had particularly fond associations for Sarah and “The First Dude of Alaska” (aka Todd).’
Anyway, that doesn’t stop the name Bristol being a real scream for us Brits, does it?
Wonder if that was where it was cloned.
I wonder if la Palin knows that the fortune of the UK Bristol is founded on, um, slavery?