What’s the best one liner you’ve ever heard?

This Chap from the US state of Indiana with his brilliant take on the handling of the credit crisis got us to thinking what’s the funniest one liner you’ve ever heard…Click and have a listen…..”it’s got more shades of wrong than a brand new bruise”. Put a smile on our faces here at the World Today. Can you do better?

Talking Points for 09 May

We’re on air now – click here to listen

Further to Karnie’s post below, we had a long meeting today and looked at the evidence for what people were talking about and we couldn’t move for 3 stories; the Burma aid crisis – on a domestic phone-in here in the UK, a lot of people were unhappy that their donations were going to agencies that wouldn’t themselves be distributing it.

Secondly, the “atheist” story Karnie talks about below, and the Fritzl case and whether madness is a defence for evil acts (a subject we’ve discussed before).

We felt all three stories have an ethical/moral element to them and to that end we will try to bring in guests who can talk about all those subjects.

 

If you have suggestions, the door, metaphorically speaking, is wide open.

here’s Karnie’s morning post..

On air: Happy Birthday Israel?

Israel is 60 today. Are you celebrating? Do you think Israel has justified its creation? And how would you like Israel to evolve?

More food for thought…

A former colleague of Ros, Chloe and myself- Chris Vallance– is working for IPM, a blog-based programme on Radio 4..they’re looking at the global food crisis and Chris has posted this….

Lose the booze

We’ve got a new mayor of London – Boris Johnson – and he’s wasted no time getting on with the crackdowns. He’s banned people drinking alcohol on public transport , so if you’ve got an open can of lager or an uncorked bottle of wine, you won’t be allowed to get on a bus or a train in the capital.