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To: agere_contra

Yeah I read it and I stand by what I said. Screw him.


51 posted on 08/10/2006 7:52:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964 in New York City, USA), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative politician, journalist and historian. Known for his distinctivly eccentric public persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and is also Shadow Minister for Higher Education in David Cameron's shadow cabinet. He is occasionally referred to as 'Bo-Jo' in the UK tabloid press)

Upon graduating from Oxford he lasted a week as a management consultant ("Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious"), before becoming a trainee reporter for The Times. Within a year he was sacked for falsifying a quotation from his godfather, Colin Lucas, later vice-chancellor of Oxford University.

Johnson cultivates an image as an eccentric, self deprecating, straw-haired fop, disorganised and scatty (he once explained the lateness of his work by claiming that, "Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power"). He has also succesfully got locked out of his own house in front of reporters (having just told them he would do what he could to save the marriage).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson


70 posted on 08/10/2006 8:11:03 AM PDT by kcvl
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