Today I'm happy about......

[William the White]

Played a big part with Zola in the Dreyfus affair too.

So that's now three of us that have heard of him... Wonder if it reaches Spottos bar of fame?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Played a big part with Zola in the Dreyfus affair too.

So that's now three of us that have heard of him... Wonder if it reaches Spottos bar of fame?

Three you say? Nah, that's C-list celebrity status. Puts him on a par with... (erm) ... that woman who dances with dogs at Crufts every year.

[Bruce Rioja]

Can I just make it absolutely crystal clear that I've never before in all my life ever even heard of Jean Jaures and subsequently have no idea what was being blathered on about. In fact, had LK not referred to a speech what 'he' made, then for all I know I'd have been quite happy to have believed that Jean Jaures was a bird, by dint of Jean being a bird's name.

As you were.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Can I just make it absolutely crystal clear that I've never before in all my life ever even heard of Jean Jaures and subsequently have no idea what was being blathered on about. In fact, had LK not referred to a speech what 'he' made, then for all I know I'd have been quite happy to have believed that Jean Jaures was a bird, by dint of Jean being a bird's name.

As you were.

Alongside that other bird Jean Paul Sartre.

[William the White]

Can I just make it absolutely crystal clear that I've never before in all my life ever even heard of Jean Jaures and subsequently have no idea what was being blathered on about. In fact, had LK not referred to a speech what 'he' made, then for all I know I'd have been quite happy to have believed that Jean Jaures was a bird, by dint of Jean being a bird's name.

As you were.

Alongside that other bird Jean Paul Sartre.

And the cross=gendered Erich Marie Remarque...

[Bruce Rioja]

Can I just make it absolutely crystal clear that I've never before in all my life ever even heard of Jean Jaures and subsequently have no idea what was being blathered on about. In fact, had LK not referred to a speech what 'he' made, then for all I know I'd have been quite happy to have believed that Jean Jaures was a bird, by dint of Jean being a bird's name.

As you were.

Alongside that other bird Jean Paul Sartre.

Zippy, Bungle, Jeffrey Archer, Andre Previn and the ISO, hello, hello, hello.

[Prufrock]

Played a big part with Zola in the Dreyfus affair too.

So that's now three of us that have heard of him... Wonder if it reaches Spottos bar of fame?

Can't say that I'd heard of that speech though. Wiki says it was in support of a miners' strike, which seems... promising

[Montreal Wanderer]

I just found out that I stayed in the house where Jean Jaures wrote his famous speech that he made at the Greves de Carmaux. Last year (me staying there that is, the speech was in 1892). Never knew til now. I'm sure there'll be a minority of WtW who will find this interesting

I know of Jaures of course - mostly for his courage in opposing the First World War which led to his assassination. What was the 1892 speech?

His killer was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide - I expect Hoboh's grandfather was on the jury.

[Lord Kangana]

I just found out that I stayed in the house where Jean Jaures wrote his famous speech that he made at the Greves de Carmaux. Last year (me staying there that is, the speech was in 1892). Never knew til now. I'm sure there'll be a minority of WtW who will find this interesting

I know of Jaures of course - mostly for his courage in opposing the First World War which led to his assassination. What was the 1892 speech?

It was at the start of the Carmaux miners strike. It was also at the start of a political turning point in his career, as he'd only just become a socialist.

[William the White]

I just found out that I stayed in the house where Jean Jaures wrote his famous speech that he made at the Greves de Carmaux. Last year (me staying there that is, the speech was in 1892). Never knew til now. I'm sure there'll be a minority of WtW who will find this interesting

I know of Jaures of course - mostly for his courage in opposing the First World War which led to his assassination. What was the 1892 speech?

It was at the start of the Carmaux miners strike. It was also at the start of a political turning point in his career, as he'd only just become a socialist.

I like him even more now.

[LeverEnd]

I used to live as a student just off the Avenue Jean Jaures in Strasbourg. Never had the foggiest who he was, got me reminiscing about being a student layabout (before I joined the real world as a teacher).

[Bruce Rioja]

Today I'm happy that the vote by the General Synod should finally see an end to people using the utterly excruciating line "Said the actress to the Bishop". I do hope so anyway.

[LeverEnd]

Today I'm happy that the vote by the General Synod should finally see an end to people using the utterly excruciating line "Said the actress to the Bishop". I do hope so anyway.

I remember a bloke I briefly worked with in an office in Slough telling me that line was his favourite joke, 'You can just use it for anything,' he guffawed. I waited for the inevitable admission that he was joking, it never came. I left soon after.

[William the White]

Today I'm happy that the vote by the General Synod should finally see an end to people using the utterly excruciating line "Said the actress to the Bishop". I do hope so anyway.

I remember a bloke I briefly worked with in an office in Slough telling me that line was his favourite joke, 'You can just use it for anything,' he guffawed. I waited for the inevitable admission that he was joking, it never came. I left soon after.

I may be wrong, but it does look to me that you have an employment history somewhere between disappointing and catastrophic...

[Montreal Wanderer]

Today I'm happy that the vote by the General Synod should finally see an end to people using the utterly excruciating line "Said the actress to the Bishop". I do hope so anyway.

I remember a bloke I briefly worked with in an office in Slough telling me that line was his favourite joke, 'You can just use it for anything,' he guffawed. I waited for the inevitable admission that he was joking, it never came. I left soon after.

I may be wrong, but it does look to me that you have an employment history somewhere between disappointing and catastrophic...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Today I'm happy that the vote by the General Synod should finally see an end to people using the utterly excruciating line "Said the actress to the Bishop". I do hope so anyway.

I remember a bloke I briefly worked with in an office in Slough telling me that line was his favourite joke, 'You can just use it for anything,' he guffawed. I waited for the inevitable admission that he was joking, it never came. I left soon after.

I may be wrong, but it does look to me that you have an employment history somewhere between disappointing and catastrophic...

... said the actress to the Bishop.

[Hoboh]

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs!!!"

[LeverEnd]

Today I'm happy that the vote by the General Synod should finally see an end to people using the utterly excruciating line "Said the actress to the Bishop". I do hope so anyway.

I remember a bloke I briefly worked with in an office in Slough telling me that line was his favourite joke, 'You can just use it for anything,' he guffawed. I waited for the inevitable admission that he was joking, it never came. I left soon after.

I may be wrong, but it does look to me that you have an employment history somewhere between disappointing and catastrophic...

An accurate summary!
Worked there for a couple of months while waiting to start my teacher training in 1999. Awful office, people and town. Great that I've gone on to love teaching so much...

[bwfcdan94]

Today I'm happy that the vote by the General Synod should finally see an end to people using the utterly excruciating line "Said the actress to the Bishop". I do hope so anyway.

I remember a bloke I briefly worked with in an office in Slough telling me that line was his favourite joke, 'You can just use it for anything,' he guffawed. I waited for the inevitable admission that he was joking, it never came. I left soon after.

I may be wrong, but it does look to me that you have an employment history somewhere between disappointing and catastrophic...

An accurate summary!
Worked there for a couple of months while waiting to start my teacher training in 1999. Awful office, people and town. Great that I've gone on to love teaching so much...

Go on LE get stuck in, were you the only English person about?

[LeverEnd]

In slough? No everyone was English. Got to live in London for a bit, was killing time really, had some top weekends. The Office was broadcast the following year and it was uncanny. A bloke worked there who looked and acted a but like David Brent. Strange place.