Lunatic Comments on the Today Programme

[liadnan]

One in an ongoing series

[Discussing the 80th birthday of Ariel Sharon, who has now been in a coma for two years] Interviewer: "So, does he still exert any influence in Israel?"

Comments

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I thought the part of the answer where the interviewee commented that the birthday had passed without much fanfare was also a bit mad, as if anyone could seriously have expected otherwise - the guest of honour being in a coma would naturally put a bit of a dampener on any celebration, one might think.

[legionseagle.livejournal.com]

Leader in a Coma/I know, I know/ It's serious

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha!

(Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder if Ariel Sharon currently finds himself working as a policeman in early 1970s Manchester under Gene Hunt?)

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

I wondered at the time what was compelling enough to pull you from duvet to keyboard at that unreasonable hour in the morning.