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Begging is illegal in London, but this is about as enforceable as a ban on sex. Instead, why not concentrate on prettifying the beggars so that they are an attractive feature of our streets?
A religion harking back to old fashioned values would be the perfect vehicle. Homeless people could dress
in historical costume and importune passers-by with quaint pleas of "alms for the poor, marm?" and dancing jigs while playing the piccolo, instead of singing tunelessly into a traffic cone while draped in a scrofulous sleeping bag.
The city should provide financial support for this scheme as it offers huge tourism potential. I have already sent off my grant submission so hands off you 'orrible mob.
"Life is ....solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
http://www.rjgeib.c...ure/hobbes-bio.html Some words of wisdom from Thomas Hobbes. [8th of 7, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
Mister Bo Jangles
http://www.edgars-l...ster_Bo_Jangles.htm [Shz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
Sin City - AC/DC
http://www.letssing...n-city-z94f77s.html Ladders and Snakes? Beggerman on one line, Belief on the next [thumbwax, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
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I will vote for this if we can also restore some of the other great achievements of the eighteenth and ninteenth centuries; Cholera, bear-baiting, plague, massive infant mortality, painful dentistry, small children climbing chimneys, and Transportation Beyond the Seas. |
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Mind you, in London, no-one might notice. |
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you can't give 2 fishbones, forni, much as you might like to. |
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Hey 8th - re Hobbes: it's always bugged me - why nasty *and* brutish? Just sounds cool, or are we suppoesd to be able to differentiate their meanings? |
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that's all of it, UnaBubba! |
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Should the queen view them and say, "Laissez-les manger des croissants"? |
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Plus, they should be made to don wooden barrels (suspended from their shoulders by straps) for clothing. |
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Put monkeys back into business on barrel organs aswell not. |
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Croissant for "scrofulous". |
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Quite right 8th, certain anachronistic elements would need to be glossed over regardless of how appealing to the homeless they might be, such as garrotting and spreading the plague. |
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fish mountain here I come... |
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