Monday, 1 June 2009

Korea: Like a candle in the wind

So, continuing the Our-Man-Solves-the-Korea-Question-Series - he has just remembered that apparently there are two Koreas - one, an unstable military-dominated state led by a clique of loons and an unstable military-dominated state led by a clique of loons on the other. Clear? Well now, Our Man understands that the higher ups in the US who worry about such things are really worried this time because the clique of loons in the South (henceforth to be referred to as The Goodies) are worried about what to do about the mass hysteria surrounding the death of the last leader who jumped off a cliff rather than face uncomfortable questions about where he got his money from. Allow Our Man to offer some free advice: Don't worry about it!

  • Sure, 500,000 folk attended his funeral
  • Sure, everybody reckons it was a conspiracy by the powers that be
  • Sure, everybody can hardly think of anything else (including immanent Nork attack...)

But, the same was true of the mass hysteria surrounding Princess Di's death. Did it change anything? Nope. Hanky sales went up for a while, but Charlie's still in line to the throne and shagging his mistress.

Our Man just prays that Elton John doesn't re-release Candle in the Wind. Dear God, no!

12 comments:

datsun k dr of doom said...

can imagine the rerelease is figuring highly in the minds of the 'Goodies' foreign policy advisors.

I eman you can live with nculear war,not sure about the rerease and consequent verse changes.

by sheer chance,the only time I ever got made to do karaoke ,I stood up and said I'd do candle in the wind.

a few lines in,I was beginning to think it wasn't that familiar,and then I realsied it was the Goodbye Englands Rose version.apparently,the audience had never been treated to a performance of every third word.

there is just no excuse for tampering with time honoured lyrics.noen at all and that includes Norkier war........

D kildare dr said...

by the way ourmani.

jsut had a look at your clustr map.you seem to have a few fans in virginia and DC.

if anyone with a heavy Brummie accent turns up at your door with a seemingly innocent invite to tour the woods birdspotting,don't go.

Elton john has a large fan base there I believe.

datsun kildare said...

any advice for getting rid of warts on your toe?

thanks in advance

dk said...

hang on,I've been reliably informed it's corn not a wart.

Our Man in Abiko said...

Our Man takes it you have fixed your browser problems then and are making up for lost time on the comments.

Have you tried burning your corn off with a candle in the wind or if you don't have a candle handy, have you tried a blowtorch?

Yeah, must be all the policy wonks at the CIA boning up on all their intelligence. Yo, ain't seen no WMDs here, spy boys. Oh, they'll never believe lil ol OMIA.

Winchester whisperer said...

Let them eat dog

Our Man in Abiko said...

Now, now Ms WW, you know as well as OMIA that the CIA never eat dog, unless it has been thoroughly vetted (gedditt?)

Datsun k said...

have had to revert back to outlook express for my mail and I can't remember whether it's a POP3 etc.

interesting times.

btw the guy from brum will probably be called 'dave'

shawngray said...

The local Abiko Canadian just checking in - found your site from http://chibaraki.wordpress.com. Looking forward to loads of laughs from your page!

Our Man in Abiko said...

Our Man will do his best to keep you amused. Thanks for the link. Must check out the site when sober. Or even better, after a few more beers.

datsun kildare said...

'Looking forward to loads of laughs from your page!'

in pantomimie stylee

'oh no you won't'

deep wart 99 said...

if it's a corn there doc,can I advise using nail clippers and taking it apart.

glad to be of help