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COULD YOU PLEASE BE A BIT MORE BRITISH?

August 29, 2005 by Tim Riley


REAL LIFE AD COPY



Are you still a wax virgin? (BBC 1 TV)

Beat the French on their home turf! (OTB horses)

Big flashy films for your grubby little houses. (billboard)




WILL YOU GO TO LUNCH!



Lindsay Posner on why David Mamet is great, warts and all:

Perhaps in no other writer’s work can the colloquial expressions of tragic human need be transformed into such moving, glorious poetry. As the hapless Bernie says as he ogles an unsuspecting girl on a beach: ‘With tits like that, who needs … anything?’



Finally, celebrating its team’s win in the Liverpool ECHO, an irresistible

HEADLINE OF THE WEEK:


“It may be pink, but it’s not remotely girly…”



[…happy anniversary baby, got you on my mind…]

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