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April 11, 2009
Saturday
 
 
Samizdata (and everywhere else) quote of the day
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Blogging & Bloggers • Slogans/quotations

I wasn't lying on purpose.

- Derek Draper on Channel 4 News (already nailed down as the defining soundbite of today by Iain Dale)

Comments

Oh, well, that's all right then, isn't it?


Posted by Marc Sheffner at April 12, 2009 02:20 AM

I wasn't lying on purpose.


It is my default position.


Posted by RAB at April 12, 2009 02:23 AM

Is he having some trouble composing himself today?


Posted by Curly at April 12, 2009 10:52 AM

They are fucked. They are more fucked than an Austrian prevert's daughter. They are just so finished. This desperate, dismal, pathetic farce is a truly fitting epitaph.


Posted by Nick M at April 12, 2009 01:10 PM
They are just so finished.

You wish. You are not the first to predict the end of idiocy.


Posted by lukas at April 13, 2009 12:05 PM

I hope Nick will forgive me for presumably speaking for him, but I'm sure he meant the end of only this particular idiocy. The less, the merrier.


Posted by Alisa at April 13, 2009 01:38 PM
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