Sep 152010
Does the BBC have a sense of humor, or are the names in this article real and relevant to the story?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-11294837
York choirgirl Isabel Suckling lands record deal
Dickon Stainer, president of Decca Records Group…
Really?
And the BBC tops it off with this bit of journalistic/editorial genius on the side of the page:
Mexico plans largest ever bicentennial
Biggest ever bicentennial, huh? How many bicentennials has Mexico celebrated?
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When I was a kid, there was an article in the newspaper about an English chap who changed his family name. His children complained of being the butt of jokes because his family name was Stinke. Because he was a good and caring father, he reached back into his past and chose a name with a different sound. He chose his mother’s mother’s maiden name: Smellie. I always hoped the E was pronounced as a long A. (Does anyone learn about long and short vowels these days?)
Suckling probably refers to family’s ancestral role in British society. They probably handled pigs. Or were generations of professional wet-nurses.
I’d take Mexico’s bicentennial more seriously if I had some reason to believe that it had been functioning as an independent entity for all those years.
Well, they had at least one as a vassal state of Spain, but I don’t know if any form of government there has operated successfully for 50 years since. Maybe they are just doing a combo thingie of all their failed governments, as an excuse to piss away $40 million that they have widdled out of America.
As for names don’t get me started!
At least as far as having one governmental system running the country, Mexico would be lucky to even reach a hundredth anniversary, much less a bicentennial.
I love the concept of the Mexican “Institutional Revolutionary Party”, which sounds like something that Leon Trotsky would have come up with shortly before someone drove a icepick into his head by Stalin’s orders.