h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Gordon Brown has pooh-poohed Ipswich's claim for unitary status, which might have meant a cohesive and autonomous single authority providing all public services locally.

Suffolk Cunty Council's opposition to the bid was dismissed by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears in July, but she has now stated that it “does not satisfy the affordability criteria.”

>Suffolk Cunty Council<

Now THERE'S a Freudian slip if ever I saw one.

I don't know...but whenever I think of Hazel Blears (which, to be honest, I try not to), I always end up mentally paraphrasing the final line of Half Man Half Biscuit's (A3064934) 'God Gave Us Life'

And he also gave us Lionel Bleuuuuurrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!

(Their lyrics really are impossible to transalate intom USAnian )

Bit of context for PC - Lionel Blair was a camp dancer most famous for being on TV game show Give Us A Clue (Charades, essentially). He got some good PR recently after he rescued a suicidal man from the end of a pier.

This from Wiki:

His skills on Give Us A Clue are frequently mocked in the introduction to the game Sound Charades on BBC Radio 4's similarly-named comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, normally by the use of a strong homosexual double entendre. For example, in one episode the host Humphrey Lyttelton introduced the game thus: "The expert's expert was of course Lionel Blair. Who could ever forget opposing team captain Una Stubbs sitting open-mouthed as he tried to pull off Twelve Angry Men in under two minutes."

For the record, to blear is to mist up a person's eyes, as with tears - whence "bleary-eyed". So it seems Hazel does indeed Blear.

I think I'd heard of Lionel Blair before, although totally unfamiliar with that program, so many thanks for clearing that all up for me.

Plenty more of those intros here

http://www.g0akh.f2s.com/isihac/Sound_Charades_Introductions_Page.php