XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.rec.pets.misc   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , banana  writes   
      
   >Apparently some owners of dogs in the UK have bought tablets advertised   
   >as calming their dogs' nerves on Guy Fawkes Night!   
   >   
   >How about keeping them indoors with the volume turned up on the TV or   
   >sound system?   
   >   
   >Or if they bark, try telling them 'that's a good dog for telling me,   
   >let's go and look out of the window at what the matter is'. Because   
   >they're probably trying to draw your attention to the 'threat'.   
   >   
   >Meanwhile...many people in the y(UK) are being exposed to adverts for   
   >scented arse-wipes! I jest not! Whatever next?   
      
   The Situationist Raoul Vaneigem (not someone whose writings I would   
   generally recommend) suggested that in a future, genuinely communist   
   society, urinals made of gold could be called "Lenins" [1]   
      
   Personally I think such a nomenclature would involve a morbid fixation   
   with the old society, so I wouldn't be in favour. Once we get rid of   
   capitalism, let's try to forget it forever, right? Start the calendar at   
   Year One.   
      
   But this side of the revolution, I've got a suggestion: why don't we   
   call scented arse-wipes "Blairs"?   
      
      
      
   (1)    
      
   Vaneigem's choice of image refers to what the bastard Lenin wrote when   
   he took the rouble back onto the gold standard, after allying the   
   Russian State with German capital rather than French capital, with which   
   it had been in commercial cahoots prior to 1917. He was trying to make   
   excuses relating to 'tactical necessity'.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)