I what want Labour would have said if it was a tory who threw the punch 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shaun Walker [mailto:shaun_walker@star6.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: 18 May 2001 09:44
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] off-topic - egg throwing and G63 humour
All,
I live near to Mr Prescott's constituency and vote Labour, but that has
nothing to do with my reaction to the incident.
If you look closely at the video, Mr Prescott's left arm comes up in a
reflex action as he is hit by the egg, to defend himself. Turning his head
and seeing no further incoming objects, and the bloke who threw it less than
12 inches away from his left hand, he takes a little jab at him. This is all
perfectly natural reflex action. MP or not, adrenaline takes over for that
initial moment, and you do what comes naturally - fight or flight. And John
fought! Hee, hee.
Personally, I'd have followed with my right, and be damned with the polls.
I've spoken to a lot of people about this, and whilst a number of them see
it as regrettable and unprofessional, they can understand the reaction and
say they may well have done the same themselves (okay, they may not be in
his position). None of them will be changing the way they vote following
this incident, and more say they'll probably watch election coverage just a
little more than usual.
Now, to round the day off, all we need is the Secret Service to remove the
egg-throwing Oik from existence - assault on an MP, treason (?) and all
that!
My two pence worth.
Shaun.
-----Original Message-----
From: Din <din_ohtar@yahoo.com.au>
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com <mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 18 May 2001 01:18
Subject: [mepbmlist] off-topic - egg throwing and G63 humour
I'm siding with John Prescott. If someone threw an egg
at my from short-range, I would like to punch them
back.My main regret - they protester wasn't knocked to the
ground.I also think its 'funny' the protesters wife isn't
happy with the Precott's reaction - maybe she expected
him to turn the other cheek ?HAR !!! Maybe if the pope got hit by an egg (and not
just a bullet), they might not get upset. But it
wasn't the pope.And to make it middle earth related.
"Flash from 1650 G63"
A late breaking story is coming out from tharbad in
1650 g63. The neutral army of Enion and Daonghlas were
on the way north to check out first hand the rumours
of the completely destruction of the WK.When asked why they were moving up, Enion was quoted
as saying 'Its only turn 5, the WK can't be that
killed so quickly. Since I'm a neutral, I feel its my
duty to the rest of the nations to provide a unbaised
view of the situation'.We keep hearing unconfirmed rumours of men will wooden
weapons being slaughtered by huge armies of well
trained/well equipped free armies. Any reports of
human (or orc) right violations will be looked into
and investigated.And while we did have a small bodyguard, it wasn't
that large (the cardy main army was said to exceed
7500 soldiers (with several thousand troops continuing
to pour into the war zone). So our 5000 odd army
wasn't excessive.However several protesters in tharbad took offense as
our refusal to pay a toll (we felt that since we
acknowledged the free as current game winners, we
shouldn't pay).When Enion was hit by a egg, the army took offense. In
our effort to bring the criminal to justice we might
have overreacted, as the capital of cardy is now a
ruin. If I say 'sorry', I assume all will be forgiven,
and life will be perfect from now on ?We notice that the new capital is now hidden (GREAT
MOVE BTW), and in an effort to find the egg-throwing
criminal, we will attempt to reveal hidden and bring
the criminal to trial.Oh yeah, we just went Dark in protest.
So stop throwing eggs. You might not like the
reaction.
din___________________________________________________________________________
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