Some QUOTES of the week in today's (UK) Mail on Sunday:

[Joe Chi Minh]

'The Bush view that you don't negotiate with people unless they agree with you first is not a wise approach to democracy.'
- Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong, on the outgoing White House administration.

'It's a very good job that Health and Safety were not at Dunkirk when Mr Miller was facing the Nazis.'
- Tory MP, when Army veteran Peter Miller was told he could not carry a banner at the Remembrance Service because at 88 there was a risk he could drop it.

'If these things were so large, how come everyone missed them?'
- The Queen asks what we'd all like to know about the credit crunch during a visit to the London School of Economics.

and another beauty from its TV schedule magazine:

'Why did you get out to such a silly shot?'
- Anjali Tendulkar greets husband Sachin after he became all-time top Test run scorer last month, surpassing Brian Lara's 11,953.'

[dipsydoodle]

1. The second

is both funny and sad at one and the same time.