Was trading weird quotes with the strategist on his site yesterday.

He found a quote from Oliver Burkeman, reporting from the ‘biggest-ever’ gathering of the British funeral industry:

There’s the phenomenon no funeral director likes to contemplate: the country’s falling death rate. It will be at least the end of the decade before the baby boomers “come on stream” said one official.

I thought FP Passport had the quote of the week from the UK military rep in Basra:

We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.

My comment: “WTF!?”

Peter liked the follow-on quote from Suad Hassan:

“My husband hurried to shoot it but it was as swift as a deer. It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey.”

Peter’s comment: “Badger, deer, dog and monkey – a strange beast.”

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