Presumably Tim this is all fair game while Kennedy is merely dying. I take it you won’t be doing anything as ‘vile‘ as ‘pissing in the grave before they’ve even put the body in it’ when he’s actually dead. Or encouraging your readers to.
Tim adds: Quite. That gap between death and burial is the one where we observe nil nisi and all that. While he’s alive I can continue to excoriate him and when he’s safely buried I can as well.
Cold, but accurate.
Oh Goody!
(Bugger, put my foot in it again.)
So it’s “Sir” Edward Kennedy, knighted for services to giving Gordon Brown a tiny bit of favourable publicity.
Makes Blair look honest and principled, doesn’t it?
Well, not sure anything does that, actually…
God, they’ll give a knighthood to the Chappaqua Dick next.
Sir Chicken of Chapaquiddick son of Duke Bootleg
I’m more worthy!
Your Royal Highness, we said, Hood of the Night not knighthood
A beheading would garner more applause!
Hail to the Beef
There is hope…maybe Sir Chicken will pardon me, my sons and my blind bride.
Presumably Tim this is all fair game while Kennedy is merely dying. I take it you won’t be doing anything as ‘vile‘ as ‘pissing in the grave before they’ve even put the body in it’ when he’s actually dead. Or encouraging your readers to.
Tim adds: Quite. That gap between death and burial is the one where we observe nil nisi and all that. While he’s alive I can continue to excoriate him and when he’s safely buried I can as well.