Letter of the week, I kid you not
Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 16:33 I have just opened a letter that reads:
Dear Mr Clark,
I heard one of your members speaking on the Jimmy Vine Show (sic) today. I could not believe my eyes (sic) when he said that people should be allowed to smoke in and on NHS premises including hospitals! No, seriously, he did, I kid you not.
Now, as a single mother of five daughters with five different fathers, I am up for a bit of challenging the 'system'. However, I think you would agree with me that what he said was idiotical. Which, ipso facto, makes him an idiot.
Do you agree? I would love to know your views on this.
Thank you and best wishes.
[Name and address supplied]
You couldn't make it up.
As it happens "one of your members" was me and my correspondent means the Jeremy Vine Show which replaced the Jimmy Young Show several years ago.
Then again, I'd give anything to listen to Jimmy Vine. He sounds a hoot.
PS. To listen to the interview between me and Jeremy click here.
Reader Comments (6)
Those pesky smokers, eh? You have to take your life in your hands running the gauntlet through the fog of cigarette smoke to reach the family planning clinic, innit?
It reads like a spoof, Simon.
Now, as a single mother of five daughters with five different fathers, I am up for a bit of challenging the 'system'. However, I think you would agree with me that what he said was idiotical.
Priceless!
I'm inclined to agree with Lysistrata, however, in that it is just too much of an epitome to be true.
That said, if you read some of the comments that appear in the 'Daily Mail'...
Definitely a spoof. But wow - as well as inventing a new radio show, the Jimmy Vine Show, she's also invented a new word: "idiotical!" How very - err - "innovatical" of her!
I would say it's a spoof - but then that is the base level of intellect among rabid anti-smokers so who knows.
Reads a bit like Les Dawson playing the piano badly on purpose. Love "idiotical".