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January 31st, 2005Robert Kilroy-Silk’s Vanitas Veritas party gets a second member. Hurray!
Actually, I shouldn’t mock. They went to the trouble of registering with the Electoral Commission last Friday, so they must be serious. A Google search of the party’s address (which is of Tony Bennett, Kilroy’s research assistant, and nominal leader according to the EC, so I assume he is their third member) gives us a taster of what’s to come from this radical fresh new party - keeping imperial measures, moaning about how the BBC are a bunch of lefties and er… Europe bad. Very bad! Me no like.
Tsk, you’d think there’d be a party catering for people like that already.
February 1st, 2005 at 10:09:20
Sorry, I must have missed this last week. Why has he named his new party after a well-known brand of replication and backup software?
February 1st, 2005 at 10:51:30
In vino, dude, in vino. He was pissed.
February 2nd, 2005 at 20:27:19
If you like Kilroy as much as us, why not try visiting http://www.vanitasparty.com and have a chuckle?:P
Rgds
Titus
February 2nd, 2005 at 22:25:07
…course, the amusing thing is, in classical Latin pronunciation, the letter “V” takes the consonant sound “w”. So Kilroy, bless him, should actually pronounce his party “Weritas” - ‘cept, somehow, that sounds a whole lot sillier than he probably intended.
Although, roughly as silly as he does actually sound, so hey.
February 3rd, 2005 at 10:30:09
Considering the guy is so dead set against anything European, I doubt correct pronunciation of a foreign language is top of his agenda, somehow.
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