BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?

Subject: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 04 Jan 16 - 11:19 AM

It isn't often they can have someone with a local connection to burn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ball_%28bishop%29

Peter Ball (Evening Standard article)

BBC on how his friends protected him

That last article was the first I heard about him. How somebody can get such a light sentence after driving somebody to a horrible death is mindboggling.

His conviction last year came too close to Bonfire Night for him to get the appropriate celebration. Perhaps he'll get it this year.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 16 - 11:46 AM

Stand by, C of E. You're going to get what the Papists have already gotten.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 04 Jan 16 - 01:30 PM

Wonder if there's room for Nigel Farage
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 16 - 03:05 PM

I'd put that disgusting ex Archbishop of Canterbury who tried covering up for him on an adjacent bonfire. This is the one who called the concept of women Bishops and equal rights in marriage "persecution of Christians". Nasty bastard.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: GUEST,Doc John
Date: 05 Jan 16 - 11:41 AM

Blair qualifies on several counts

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Jan 16 - 11:52 AM

It would be surprising if Tony Blair hadn't been done. Last year was David Cameron and the pig, and Angela Merkel got it a few years before. But I can't find a list of those honoured.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Jan 16 - 12:16 PM

Trump?

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 01:48 AM

Eh, Trump (giggle!) is stupid and annoying, but not deliberately wicked.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: GUEST,Eluned
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 01:52 AM

Sorry, that was me as "guest" just now. Had to add, while 'trump' means fart in the UK, americans sometimes refer to a really old guy as an "old fart"!!!

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 02:37 AM

"Old fart" is a pretty common expression here in UK too. Not saying that said meaning of "trump" isn't what is suggested and in fact it makes sense but can't say I've ever actually heard it being used as such so not common throughout whole UK. "Pump" is used a lot though especially for children.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 03:15 AM

Irritable Duncan Syndrome

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Jan 16 - 07:58 AM

The term 'boring old fart' surely originated in the British satirical magazine, Private Eye, which has been published continuously since 1961, popularising the public-school slang of its founders Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Christopher Booker and Paul Foot of Shrewsbury School. Can anyone point to an earlier usage of it?

'Trump' has several meanings, of course, not all of which are what Bert Lloyd used euphemistically to term 'disobliging'. Apart from the obvious meaning of one of the advantageous suit at cards, it was an old name for the instrument variously called jew's-harp, jaws-harp, &c. The use to mean fart is presumably based on the "blast on a trumpet" definition, as in that Last Trump which will be blown by the Archangel to signal the End Of The World...

any time now —— stand by!

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 11:09 AM

As this years bonfire has, quite rightly, been cancelled, has anyone given any though about whose effigy would have taken the place of Honour.

My nominations would be Trump if he hasn't already taken place, or Cummings.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 05:53 AM

I agree with SPB-Cooperator. Trump has been burned at Lewes before.
But Cummings would be the perfect candidate this year.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: vectis
Date: 05 Nov 20 - 08:19 PM

Cummings with his car by Barnard Castle would have made a splendid effigy.

Subject: RE: BS: candidate for the Lewes bonfire?
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 06:40 AM

bonzo 3 legs