Last week's poll showed that there's still a place for all those forests of fast-growing pines that prop up the Norwegian economy. Book buyers outnumbered borrowers by very nearly two and a half to one. (I think the half was Sham Shui Po Boy.)
This week, I cast my net a little further afield and ask you to travel in your imaginations to 1960 (Fumier can check his diaries), when Richard Nixon squared off against John Kennedy for the right to be called Mister President.
Who would you have cast your vote for? WouldHomer Simpson have concurred?
This week, I cast my net a little further afield and ask you to travel in your imaginations to 1960 (Fumier can check his diaries), when Richard Nixon squared off against John Kennedy for the right to be called Mister President.
Who would you have cast your vote for? Would
2 comments:
1960 ? Well I was 12, and JFK was a war hero and his late night swim would have earned him my vote.
You've aged, er, pretty well, Micky. Paul Nutty Johnson's excellent History of the American People has an interesting section on Kennedy.
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