London Times thinks up Funny Bloody Sunday Joke

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This came through on e-mail on Friday. The sender said that it was on the thetimes.co.uk web site and also in the printed version. It refers to the upcoming Ireland-England rugby match in Croke Park and to Bloody Sunday 1920 (which was recreated fictionally in the film Michael Collins.) "Scotland weren't much better than a Guinness Premiership or Magners League team, but you can only beat what is put in front of you, and Saturday represents a very good start. Ireland may well be missing Brian O'Driscoll as well as Shane Horgan and don't have the resources in depth to overcome such losses. However neither will England have the armoured cars and machine guns they had the last time they entered Croke Park!" Me, I thought it was funny, in a blackly humourous way. Plus it was an acknowledgement by a high Tory newspaper that there are reasons why they haven't been invited before this and an acknowledgement of the fact that the Ireland-England rugby match in Croke Park will be a momentous occasion. We should be big enough to laugh, after all, we won that war. However, it also seemed like an urban legend. I checked thetimes.co.uk site and couldn't find it. Then I found on MunsterFans.com that it had been on thetimes.co.uk web site briefly and was taken down. It was never in the printed version -- here's the post. Anyway, it's funniest when you read it aloud in a snooty Brit accent. "Snooty Brit accent" being a technical term.