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egon Posted Mar 18, 2004
...but I have now. if you haven't got round to yours Alfredo, you can do it online at https://www.libdems.org.uk/index.cfm//page.renew/section.home/ref.supuspg
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Alfredo Marquez Posted Mar 18, 2004
"Now I think of it, if they're having PMQs in my bath, does that mean I'll be naked with a bar of soap and a bottle of shampoo in the House of Commons?"
No, but Parliament has just been convened in your bathroom
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egon Posted Mar 18, 2004
you think I'll have to knock some walls through to make room?
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Alfredo Marquez Posted Mar 18, 2004
No. The speaker can sit on the toilet, the 3 main party leaders can stand at the side of the bath and everyone else can shout from the hallway
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egon Posted Mar 18, 2004
Might have to maccomodate some of the backbenchers in the bedrooms or on the stairs though.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 18, 2004
I believe it was Boris Johnson who said "The Liberal Democratic Party is a Heath Robinson contraption that defies the laws of physics. It can suck and blow at once ... If they had a policy on cake, they would be pro-having it and pro-eating it- at the same time and during the same party conference debate.
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Alfredo Marquez Posted Mar 18, 2004
Is it just me or does anyone else agree that the sayings about having your cake and eating it are ridiculous...what the hell else are you meant to do with it once you have it other than eat it???
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Number Six Posted Mar 18, 2004
Look at it and feel pleased that you have it!
There, look at that lot.
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egon Posted Mar 18, 2004
yeah, but if you're not going to eat it, what's the point?
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 18, 2004
Well, I don't like cake, so there are quite a few alternatives.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 18, 2004
"Having your cake and eating it" makes perfect sense- you cannot have a cake *and* it- once you've eaten it, you haven't got it anymore. I suppose a fuller and clearer version would be "you can't have your cake and eat it and still have your cake".
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Number Six Posted Mar 18, 2004
I believe the standard practice in these entrepreneurial times is that once you have your cake, you sell it on at a profit and buy another one...
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egon Posted Mar 18, 2004
Ah, kerr, I'd never thought of it like that before. the syntx, putting the "having" before the "eating" suggests to me that the person accused is wanting to first have their cake, and then to eatt it, which is perfectly rational.
Whereas in fact, it's saying that you wish to eat your cake and have it, as it were.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 18, 2004
Exactly Egon 
Yes the second version is clearer, but looks... odd.
There's a good little Tory, Six 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 18, 2004
Well yes, that's another use for a cake. But now you can't sell it *or* eat it...
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Number Six Posted Mar 18, 2004
and I haven't got it any more, either.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 18, 2004
Looks like a bit of a bum deal to me- sort of a Russian election situation 
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Number Six Posted Mar 18, 2004
Just goes to show - you can't throw your cake and eat it.... *or* have it.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Mar 18, 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen: The wisdom of five plus one.
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