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   "selene1022"  wrote in message   
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   > Speaking of Allport (or MR. Allport), he's been over at Harry's Place   
   > harassing Gene and me for denouncing lil"Oswald (AKA Gorgeous George   
   > Galloway, AKA that steaming maggot filled heggis sack) Don't I remember   
   > "Mr." Allport defending the Bethnal&Bow MP right here in this very   
   > forum a while back. Must check the archives.   
   >   
   > As for the North vs. South stuff, think you're on to something ROB.  I   
   > swear I think it's half the reason our favorite "Liverpool-ian" detests   
   > C. Hitchens so very much.   
      
      
   Oh God yes, the north south thing festers and it's mostly for southerners   
   'stereotyping' them - which of course 'we' did; but 'they' stereotyped 'us'   
   as spivs, crooks and toffs. The sense of entitlement seems to be greater   
   among the northerners because of coal mining or something. Allport on here   
   years ago once got his class war knickers in a twist because I said I   
   thought Cilla Black (a British 'entertainter' now slipping into   
   well-deserved obscurity) a low level talent launched on the world as a joke   
   by the Beatles. He started off on a homily of hard work (clearly he sees   
   himself as being another hard working Liverpudlian success story) and how   
   Cilla had to do it (funnily enough Mr GradPort was -heavens- WRONG: further   
   investigation shows that Cilla's story *is* one of overnight success-   
   touched with the fab four's wand). AAAAAAnyway, not long before that Mr   
   Allport had been prigging off about Bernard Manning, a northern club   
   comedian of Dickensian vulgarity who I occasionally find funny; Mr Manning   
   had come up from abject poverty BUT of course had transgressed Social   
   Democratic Diktats and therefore his fifty years hard graft in the clubs   
   counted for nothing in his defence. This decaff Marxists make me puke.   
   Needless to say that Comrade Allport also imputed that I was lazy.   
      
      
   http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.books.george-orwell/browse_thread/threa   
   d/a01344cd55eb5369/e4d12b3d5c5c9c99?q=cilla+black&rnum=1&hl=en#e4d12b3d5c5c9   
   c99   
      
   >   
   > Just watch, he'll show up...   
      
   Allport? He'll never come back here: he can't control the debate - that's   
   why he left in the first place and started the tedious, colourless Horizon-   
   which he banned me from a few weeks ago. The character Quiggin in Powell's   
   'Dance to the Music of Time' seems a good fictional analogue of the Scallie   
   Sage.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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