[lbo-talk] Benazir Bhutto reportedly assasinated in a suicide bomb attack

[Michael Smith]

On Friday 28 December 2007 21:13:25 Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Michael Smith wrote:
> > BBC:  We have King Canute on the line. Good evening, your majesty.
>
> Just for the record, I believe this is terrible slander of King Canute,

Being an Anglo-Saxon myself, I take a dim view of those damn 
interloping Danes. I suspect the complicated modesty trope may 
be a secondary development of the story, elaborated 
by some scribbling stooge paid with Dane gelt.