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  • One MP asked if the PM might like to visit his local bottle-bank - ho-ho tee hee - yes these people are running the country.

    PMQ's: GORDO'S IN CONTROL David Maxwell 2007

  • One MP asked if the PM might like to visit his local bottle-bank - ho-ho tee hee - yes these people are running the country.

    Archive 2007-10-01 David Maxwell 2007

  • If the audience has been regularly and systematically saturated by 6-course dinners with extra-large helpings of 'Schwarzenegger plus brain' characters wiping out buildings, cities and turning cars over in burning flames while riding a rocket-sled through a computer-generated matrix then perhaps watching Veronique silently wiping a gold ring under her eye in front of a mirror or watching an old woman trying to get a bottle into a bottle-bank may well illicit an audience response of "Well, what the hell's that supposed to mean?"

    GreenCine Daily: DVD. The Double Life of Véronique. 2006

  • Fixated on minor detail (observing during kisses that his girlfriend Jordana has been drinking semi-skimmed milk) Tate is also given to rather outre 'similes of the mind (bottles in a bottle-bank for instance are likened to the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

  • Fixated on minor detail (observing during kisses that his girlfriend Jordana has been drinking semi-skimmed milk) Tate is also given to rather outre 'similes of the mind (bottles in a bottle-bank for instance are likened to the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

  • Fixated on minor detail (observing during kisses that his girlfriend Jordana has been drinking semi-skimmed milk) Tate is also given to rather outre 'similes of the mind (bottles in a bottle-bank for instance are likened to the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

  • Fixated on minor detail (observing during kisses that his girlfriend Jordana has been drinking semi-skimmed milk) Tate is also given to rather outre 'similes of the mind (bottles in a bottle-bank for instance are likened to the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

  • Fixated on minor detail (observing during kisses that his girlfriend Jordana has been drinking semi-skimmed milk) Tate is also given to rather outre 'similes of the mind (bottles in a bottle-bank for instance are likened to the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

  • Fixated on minor detail (observing during kisses that his girlfriend Jordana has been drinking semi-skimmed milk) Tate is also given to rather outre 'similes of the mind (bottles in a bottle-bank for instance are likened to the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

  • Fixated on minor detail (observing during kisses that his girlfriend Jordana has been drinking semi-skimmed milk) Tate is also given to rather outre 'similes of the mind (bottles in a bottle-bank for instance are likened to the piled corpses of Holocaust victims.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

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