"I'll have a Guinness, old man."
One waiting behind the bar in Friel's whenever you're passing Jack - but not this week - to many ****** musicians about.
"House of Lords a bishop's experience and viewpoint may be no less useful that some of the others there."
They are appointed because of the position they occupy in society, not on their merit not on their merit.
The present lot got there (historically) because Henry VIII was able to burn the opposition at the stake so he could continue to get his leg over.
Jim Carroll