16/01/2008 by Keith Berry-Davies.

I was asked yesterday, “What is a good marriage?” A good marriage is one that allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way that they express their love.

Peter Ustinov once said, “Marriage is like a three speed gearbox: affection, friendship and love.” What is he implying here? Simply that it’s not advisable to crash your gears and go through to love straight away. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learnt from affection and friendship.

Have a good day.

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16/01/2008 by Andrew John.

Hello again. Andrew John here. Hello? Anybody there? Oh, there you are!

I’ve been off the airwaves (should that be linewaves?) for a while, apart from the odd story for Celtica, but I’m rejoining Bill Everatt’s Underground Edition this coming Sunday, 20 January, to talk a bit about crap English. You know the sort: gobbledegook.

It was Bill’s idea. He stumbled (he’s always stumbling – it’s too many wine gums) across a website with some special awards for mangled English – but you’ve got to hear it to believe it.

So somewhere in Bill’s show there’ll be a two-minute (or so) slot while I bring you some of the best (or worst, depending on your point of view) of these, and I’ll be trying to outdo them with a bit of gobbledegook of my own – except that mine isn’t as polite as theirs tries to be.

So, incline your auditory modality organs in the approximate direction of the electro-acoustic transducers attached to your computational device during that specific temporal eventuality, and let’s see if we can take the piss out of the crap (if you see what I mean).

See you there next week.

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