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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:14:51AM -0500, Chris Schechner wrote:
> One of my buddies was standing outside his pub as a riot was going on in
> Derry, as mayhem and fights were breaking out all about him and he turned to
> his friend and quoted the Van Morrison song, ?don?t you wish every day could
> be like today?? Sometimes it just takes humor (humour) to overcome some
> things.

(Apologies for hijacking (a very West Belfast sport) this into a NI
political football, your normal Groo-ness, and my lurkiness, will resume
shortly.)

See, even saying _Derry_ has enough political undercurrents to set out a
stall.

And don't even mentin Van Morrision...

It didn't take humour to overcome things. It took some of the population
to realise that bombing the rest of them wasn't going to get them
anywhere. But I digress, and could for a lot, lot longer (and have done,
having written dozens of political articles on the place of my birth.)

I reckon giving them all cheese dip thirty years ago would have solved
it. But even then, some trace the problem back a further 800 years...

m.

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