scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
Rumpole
is busy defending the youngest son of a family of villains on a murder
charge. His client has all the evidence stacked against him, but
meanwhile it is Rumpole's battered old bowler which is becoming the
focus of bemused attention in chambers and beyond Hilda has made up her
mind that Rum
Rumpole was great but I just recently found and downloaded the entire Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister series. There was no better and no more entertaining primer on the mechanisms of politics. We learn, for example, why we just recently had to spend one third of our GNP on bailouts, "Something must be done! This is something. Therefore we must do it." GrinfilledCelt
HFS 1979! Now I feel really old.
ReplyDeleteBTW did you know Leo McKern was an Aussie?
No .. but I like him anyway. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat series!
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Rumpole was great but I just recently found and downloaded the entire Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister series. There was no better and no more entertaining primer on the mechanisms of politics. We learn, for example, why we just recently had to spend one third of our GNP on bailouts, "Something must be done! This is something. Therefore we must do it."
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