# Tony Blair's speech -- "History will forgive"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-blairs-speech-history-will-forgive/189357>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-blairs-speech-history-will-forgive/189357 "2003-07-18T11:05:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-blairs-speech-history-will-forgive/189357/141 "2003-07-21T01:54:46Z")

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No sweat, Limey. Just bustin’ yer chops, fuggedaboutit. Got my faults, for sure, but touchy ain’t on the list.

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**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-blairs-speech-history-will-forgive/189357/142 "2003-07-21T03:20:37Z")

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Collounsbury, please do not refer to me as “milly” in this forum. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-blairs-speech-history-will-forgive/189357/143 "2003-07-21T06:21:38Z")

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In re the name, “sound smart” - not at all, I like abbreviations [although Col for me should be right out since it’s unsearchable], however the rebuke is noted so going forward.

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> \*Originally posted by milroyj \*  
> \*\*The UAW noting a recession is rather like PETA noting the size of chicken cages. \*\*

And this is relevant to your continued error in what manner? Silly peevishness.

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**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tony-blairs-speech-history-will-forgive/189357/144 "2003-07-21T10:53:18Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Collounsbury \*  
> I like abbreviations [although Col for me should be right out since it’s unsearchable] . . .

No probs. Collette it is, you ‘au contraire’ foxy vixen . . .

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