Praise be!
The Times 9th May 1984
“Cliff Richard. certainly: Mrs Roy Castle. probably: but Lord Tonypandy shaking a tambourine and clapping his hands for Jesus? The former Speaker, stalwart of dour Welsh valley Methodism. has accepted the honorary chairmanship of Billy Graham’s front organization Mission England. which kicks off its three-month tour at Bristol’s Ashton Gate football stadium on Saturday. An admirer for 20 years. Lord Tonypandv tells me Graham’s faith “is as solid as the rock of Gibraltar.” Mission England publicists at Alan Wagstaff. hired to do for Graham what Saatchi and Saatchi are doing f’or rival evangelist Luis Palau. are besides themselves with the catch. They tell me Lord Tonypandy. former vice-president of the Methodist conference, will appear alongside Cliff Richard and Fiona Castle (to be shown with Roy. children and dog) on posters that craftily avoid any reference to God. The company. more accustomed to marketing Mackintosh sweets and Goodyear tyres. tells me: “For many people the words God and Jesus Christ are turn-offs.’ Perhaps they should tell that to Billy Graham.”
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Needle’s encylopaedic memory is awe inspiring
Try as hard as I might to hold myself back, my obsessive pedantry compels me to point out that Something On The Internet Is Wrong. It should read: “Cliff Richard, certainly; Mrs Roy Castle, probably; …” Such an abuse of colons & full stops is, in my humble opinion, an offence that requires something worse than the death penalty.
Worse than the death penalty ?
Surely, you don’t mean… No, you wouldn’t suggest… I mean you wouldn’t force me to listen to Cliff Richard’s ‘Millennium Prayer’. Would you ?
PS, plenty of grammar to criticise in that reply. ;-)
Have a word with the relevant sub-editor at The Times.