Tabloid Bingo: McCann, Matthews, McGuckin And More…
ANORAK’S’ Tabloid Bingo: With Lorraine Kelly…
The Aim of The Game: To combine the names McCann, Fritzl, Matthews, McGuckin and McKeown in one column. Can the Sun’s Lorraine do it? Eyes down…
WHY do many parents leave their common sense behind as soon as they step on the plane and go off on holiday?
A promising start from Kelly, who has set a scene which should enable her to use all five names, possibly in a single paragraph.
Parents who would not leave their children in the front garden to play on their own happily dump them in the hotel room or villa while they go for a meal. The poor McCanns will never forgive themselves for their tragic error of judgment which led to the disappearance of Maddie.
Tick!
What about the Irish bank chief and his wife who had their children taken into protective custody when on holiday in the Algarve?
You mean the mortgage advisor, Lorraine?
Eamon McGuckin was said to be so drunk that he collapsed and fell through a sofa, while his wife Antoinette threw up in their hotel reception area.
Tick!
Damn those flimsy Portuguese sofas.
Without becoming paranoid and wrapping your children in cotton wool, you have to be aware they can be in MORE danger on holiday than at home. Child molesters haunt holiday camps, theme parks and family resorts. You need to be on your guard.
The danger is all around us. It could be you.
Parents have to remind themselves about what they would do if they were in their own house. They WOULDN’T leave their children home alone without a babysitter, and they WOULDN’T get so stinking drunk they vomit and black out.
Shannon Matthews? Noooo! Karen Matthews?? Noooooo!! Lorraine misses a sitter. Come, on Loraine, up your game.
More Tabloid Bingo soon…
May 11th, 2008 at 1:02 am
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chenier Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
sorry to reply to the same post but,
‘Whether he realises it or not, Gerry comes across as having grossly overestimated his own abilities. And that is not an alpha male characteristic…’
i tend to agree with that too, i see gerry as someone who has worked hard to be where he is, and i think that’s quite far considering the degree in sports medecine. i hate to get personal but this whole thing does wind me up.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:58 am
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chenier Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I have proceeded ever since on the premise that, if a Nobel Prize winner thought that getting stuck into explaining and debating things was the right way to go, then there is no excuse for people further down the greasy pole claiming that it’s all too difficult for we lesser mortals to understand.
i have to agree with that, if you can’t explain it you dont undetrstand it.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:37 am
oh , you ’se all been here for ages like it seems
May 10th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Clarrie in a spin, met 3 paid witnesses to lie.
I think that this report has hit the nail right on the head.
Joana-morais.blogspot.com
May 10th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
One thing I don’t understand about posters names. Why why why, Maria?
May 10th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Sam-sorry had a great storm last night-but it outed the power so had to close down earlier than planned. read your comments today though.
2 random thoughts-not related.
Could the McGuckins sue the McCanns for their treatment in Portugal and subsequent curtailment of holiday?
If it happened as they say-and they were not comatosed through alcohol-they are paying the price for the Mccanns as Brits on holiday are now treated with overcaution as Portuguese don’t want ‘another 3 maddies’
Also the cadaver dogs. If M died in the appartment by abductor/whoever-the scent of death could have been on articles subsequently transported in Renault-meaning that body didn’t necessarily travel in car.
BTW-if ever I go to Portugal I will have my child photographed with me every 20 mins timed and dated on camera-sipping a diet coke-and I’ll defo not put a braid in her hair-I shall have witnesses at every meal time and have her DNA’d on entry to any creche-and on the way out to avoid any confusion.
Then again I may just go to Greece!!!!
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I thought my post so fascinating I thought I’d post it again.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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meercat Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Was there no powerpoint for explaining things back in the olden days Chenier?
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Indeed not, we are, after all referring to the 1960s.
It’s about the only thing I do remember from the 1960s…
That and the fact that my mother’s home made wine, created by throwing in whatever she felt like, tasted much better than the stuff made by the bio-chemist, who, proceeding in the immaculately scientific fashion which had earned him his Nobel Prize, produced stuff which smelled like cat pee.
This was a source of some distress to him…
May 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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meercat Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Was there no powerpoint for explaining things back in the olden days Chenier?
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Smudd believes she can faintly hear the subtle creaking of thin ice about to give way …