Comments on: Archbishop Goes Dreamy-Eyed Over Good Old Days http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/16/archbishop-goes-dreamy-eyed-over-good-old-days/ Taking a different one on the news Sat, 19 May 2012 12:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Jislizard http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/16/archbishop-goes-dreamy-eyed-over-good-old-days/#comment-4633 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:47:49 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/16/archbishop-goes-dreamy-eyed-over-good-old-days/#comment-4633 It's all in the punctuation! he actually said It's a time of............well, being! Meaning that when asked to describe what it was like he hesitated as he thought of the answer and said that it was just "existing" A mere existance and not a life at all! Trust the gutter press to twist the words of a great man just to sell a few lousy webpages. It’s all in the punctuation!

he actually said
It’s a time of…………well, being!

Meaning that when asked to describe what it was like he hesitated as he thought of the answer and said that it was just “existing” A mere existance and not a life at all!

Trust the gutter press to twist the words of a great man just to sell a few lousy webpages.

]]> by: Rhys Wilcox http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/16/archbishop-goes-dreamy-eyed-over-good-old-days/#comment-4063 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:11:52 +0000 http://www.theslant.co.uk/2007/01/16/archbishop-goes-dreamy-eyed-over-good-old-days/#comment-4063 See? He just needed to personalise the comment rather than a generalisation: 'As far as I was concerned, it was a time of well-being.' That would have been okay, no? Otherwise a bit of Bing could pull him out of deep water if he can convince everyone that he was just accentuating the positive. See? He just needed to personalise the comment rather than a generalisation:

‘As far as I was concerned, it was a time of well-being.’

That would have been okay, no?

Otherwise a bit of Bing could pull him out of deep water if he can convince everyone that he was just accentuating the positive.

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