19-05-2018, 08:58 PM
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Re: The Pages of Punch
Originally Posted by Mr Magoo
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1948: A fearsome moggy Instead of the weak cat and the strong dog here is an example of role reversal.
I have a sign in my garden MrMagoo it reads
"Beware of Miss Cat"
20-05-2018, 09:45 AM
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Re: The Pages of Punch
1955: What an opportunityWhy has Johnson been offered the whole of Africa as his district? We can see the little flags representing profitable districts in non-communist Europe, the middle-east and southern Asia. It is clearly the boss’s opinion that Africa is a no go continent for whatever his company is selling. Writing Africa off as a whole would not really have made sense. The most obvious exception would have been South Africa and there will have been individual exceptions in North, West and East Africa.
Writing off the whole continent indicates a prejudice which was not justified by the facts on the ground.
21-05-2018, 09:33 AM
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1947: Blaming the governmentThe winter of 1946/7 was particularly severe. My school remained closed for several weeks due to a lack of coal for heating. (It was being mined in sufficient quantities but the ‘big freeze’ prevented it from reaching us in the South.) I can recall that the Labour Government was being blamed for everything that went wrong.
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