Monday, April 03, 2006

oh come on...

Does anyone find it funny that the UK foreign secretary is named Jack Straw? Jack STRAW?? As in, peasants revolt leader 1381 jack straw???

article here

Oh snap - Wikipedia has just informed me that politician Jack Straw adopted the name after the rebel leader. Now why the heck would he want to do that??

Wikipedia article here

2 comments:

Anna said...

I think you've been working too hard ...

Go see "V for Vendetta", it'll clear your brain out and unburden you of petty things like "thoughts" and "ideas". Wheeee!!!

Meels said...

I'm trying to decide what your animal would be, Anna... at first I thought "crow" - likes shiny things, short attention span - but I wasn't sure about that whole "portent of death and destruction" thing... ;)