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Portsmouth Poll - March 2011

08 Mar 2011

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Poll hears the son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator of 30 years commissioned plans to build a superyacht costing $380m.
   OK, says Poll, sounds A Good Idea.
   But this man apparently earns a salary of $6,799 a month as agriculture minister in his dictator father’s government. Oh, and the proposed superyacht will cost nearly three times what his father’s country spends on health and education each year.
   That’s dictators and their sons for you, says Poll.

This sad little email dropped into That Nice Mr Nash’s inbox the other day, says Poll:
Please forgive a typo in the introduction of my last email - it should read BIMCO and not BIMBO
Many thanks
Victoria
RMS
Poll wonders if Victoria is blonde…

Will Lymington see a ‘controversial’ Wetherspoons pub voted in by the local council Poll wonders?
The fairly upmarket town has resisted all attempts so far, but it seems the ABC1’s may have to be a little more flexible in their ways if the revised plans for a Wetherspoons next to Lymington’s Parish Church (horrors!) may get the thumbs up.

Scanning the superyacht press, as Poll does (she likes 'em rich), she spotted this little item: Heesen Yachts have announced that they have laid the keel of their latest yacht, a 65m fast displacement motoryacht. Work began on the hull in December of 1010, and the vessel is due in 2012...
That’s a pretty stretched out schedule, says Poll.

Poll hears the bruiser with a surprisingly quick left jab, the former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, is to read the 05.20 Shipping Forecast on Radio 4 on March 19.
This is, says Poll thankfully, a Comic Relief charity stunt, so it may even be recorded to iron out any mispronunciations for which the hapless politician is only too famous.
If not, there should be a proper forecaster ready to step in at the slightest hesitation in South Utsire, North Utsire, Cromarty, FitzRoy or Dogger.

A sign seen in a laundry:
These Are Automatic Washing Machines: Please Remove All Your Clothes When The Light Goes Out

Controversial Russian grafitti artists - supported by Banksy after they were jailed for taunting spy chiefs - have been nominated for a top award, says news agency Ananova.
   The group - called Voina, or 'War' in Russian - painted a huge phallus on a lifting bridge opposite the headquarters of spy chiefs FSB in St Petersburg. Every time the bridge was raised the giant manhood could be seen rising in front of the spy centre's windows.
   Now the group has been nominated for a national award by Russia's State Centre for Contemporary Art.
Voina has said it will only accept the gong if two of its members - Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev - are released from jail where they've been held on public order offences for three months.
   Banksy is said to be a huge fan of the collective and put up more than £100,000 to bail the pair before authorities rejected his cash.

Portsmouth Poll - March 2011

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