(April 18, 2016 at 1:20 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(April 18, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Point is though that it's not like nobody notices when these happen (yes, even in England and Wales), let alone kick up a stink about them. So much so, in point of fact, that far more attention is drawn to the story than it would have received were it not for the embargo.
I wouldn't have been interested if I wasn't supposed to know.
As a tactic for getting a non-story in the news, it works like a bad dream.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'