I like it!
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Hilary Shaw wrote:
> No really they do. You thought they were all faceless grey suits in
> ivory towers - well not in Leeds they're not. Today the Electoral
> Commission sent a bus to outside the University of Leeds, urging
> people to register to vote, and playing out the song "This is what it
> means to feel small....this is what its like to have no voice at all".
> Well I guess if we had the right polical parties, voting would give us
> a voice, like the Nike Labour Party, the Coca-Cola-servatives, the
> Liberal MacDonalds-crats, etc etc. But we don't so why bother with
> the bus, the song, and all that. Then it dawned on me. It really was
> the best irony this side of Christmas. Get people to sign up to vote,
> whilst playing the very tune that would tell them exactly what their
> vote was worth. Nice one. I now wait with bated breath for things
> like NHS or DSS waiting rooms with piped music playing "Oh if I
> was a rich man", or maybe railway waiting rooms playing "We're on
> the road to nowhere".
> Hillary Shaw, P/G Geography, University of Leeds
> Traditional sayings of the P'nstrae-P'sutid tribe (2)
> Money cannot buy happiness, nor love. But so long as our
> workers think it can, we're happy and we love it.
>
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