Re: Aaron Shearer



On 23 Apr 2008 09:57:25 -0700, R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

BrE filted:

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:22:20 +0100, "Mike Lyle"
<mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not only daft, but also pernicious. It puts pressure on others to be
"brave", and implies a hierarchy of character, and even that it's
somehow the sufferer's fault if he didn't "fight" hard enough against
the disease. A BBC man, John Diamond, wrote a book about his terminal
illness with /Cowards Get Cancer Too/ in the title.

This is doubly on topic because food was involved. He was
married to Nigella Lawson, cookess, at the time of his death.

No one's ever been able to pin anything on her....r

Just as well, she'd deflate.
--
Richard Bollard
Canberra Australia

To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT.
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