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To: epicure who wrote (92318)	10/28/2008 7:54:49 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541652

<ot> I love the idea of gay marriage. Back in a 1980's election a British comedy team, "Not the 9 O'Clock News" (where Rowan Atkinson started) brought out a lovely parody of various electoral magazines, etc. One feature IIRC was something like Text-Subtext, where they provide politicians' words and their true meanings. In it was one gloriously funny sentence which has stuck in my mind to this day... Text: We are supportive of non-traditional family relationships. Subtext: Not only will we make homosexuality legal, we will make it mandatory However even at the age of 12 or so I did recognise satire. It is genuinely scary to find people that clearly don't.