25 May 2005

So where do you buy your underwear?

In The Guardian, a rather premature obituary for M&S. But amusingly done, for example:

"Mothers spoke its name with reverential awe and dragged their offspring, ballasted with boredom, to worship at the all-cotton jumper altar and gaze at the pleated skirts and shiny blousons with the adoration of the Magi for the Messiah. Implausible statistics were accepted as gospel - the most famous being something about how 15 out of 10 women bought their knickers from M&S in case they got knocked down and were refused hospital treatment on the grounds that if you didn't buy your underwear from the crypto-ecclesiastical emporium you were a skanky ho who didn't deserve the NHS resources. "

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