It's All in the Sun!!!
Feb. 27th, 2008 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningYesterday's front page headline in the Sun screamed something like 99% Support the Death Penalty!!!.
(I can't tell you precisely because I can't actually find the story on the Sun's website.)
It was actually 99% of Sun readers in a poll who supported the death penalty, and the article didn't say how they were selected.
Edit: Liberal Conspiracy has an article about the Sun and its attitude to, amongst other things, capital punishment here. Whilst there, I nicked this picture of the front page of yesterday's Sun (clearly a hanging offence...):
Still, it reminded me of an old John Cooper Clark poem, which I first heard in 1977 in the Roundhouse. Before I find it on the internet, I want to see what my memory can come up with: so these are excerpts...
There are a few more verses, but my memory fades.
So let's see what Google finds...
OK, it is called Suspended Sentence, and you can read the whole thing here. Please don't comment on how bad my memory is - and the original is funnier! And I missed several rhymes which I now remember! Of course.
(I can't tell you precisely because I can't actually find the story on the Sun's website.)
It was actually 99% of Sun readers in a poll who supported the death penalty, and the article didn't say how they were selected.
Edit: Liberal Conspiracy has an article about the Sun and its attitude to, amongst other things, capital punishment here. Whilst there, I nicked this picture of the front page of yesterday's Sun (clearly a hanging offence...):
Still, it reminded me of an old John Cooper Clark poem, which I first heard in 1977 in the Roundhouse. Before I find it on the internet, I want to see what my memory can come up with: so these are excerpts...
...ho hum... hum drum... do something destructive chum
Sit right down and write a letter to the Sun
It said "bring back hanging - for everyone!"
They took my advice, they brought it back
The national costume was all over black
They were hanging from the tree and three man rack
Failure to hang yourself justifed the axe
Fiddle di dee fiddle di dum
Bring back hanging - for everyone!"
There are a few more verses, but my memory fades.
So let's see what Google finds...
OK, it is called Suspended Sentence, and you can read the whole thing here. Please don't comment on how bad my memory is - and the original is funnier! And I missed several rhymes which I now remember! Of course.