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# Is that an Allan Ahlberg illustration?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:42, archived)
# It's from When The Wind Blows
Raymond Briggs, I think
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:44, archived)
# yep.
When The Wind Blows made me cry.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:46, archived)
# This Labour government makes me cry
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:48, archived)
# "Thiiiiiiiiiiiings, can only get better"
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:49, archived)
# Yeah still waiting for that one :D
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:50, archived)
# Fucking hell
I was such a naïve first time voter in 1997

I wish I could go back and beat all that optimism out of my 18 year-old self with a fucking cricket bat
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:53, archived)
# Ha ha ha!
You sure you were 18 in 1997? ;)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:54, archived)
# Now I come to think of it
I voted just after my 19th birthday
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:07, archived)
# It's your birthday soon too then?
Mine in 2 weeks exactly :D
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:52, archived)
# No go back and hit Tony Blair with the Cricket Bat
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:54, archived)
# That would be the decent thing to do
I was just being selfish
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:08, archived)
# Steer clear of "Grave of the Fireflies" then...
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:07, archived)
# gah! that stupid boy
take your sister to a fucking doctor you coward!
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:24, archived)
# meh
I remember being told about "Grave" and everyone said it was so bloody sad I was definitely gonna cry out every drop of moisture from my body during the course of the film. It's not THAT sad. Great film though.
(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:57, archived)
# i watched that late at night, then crawled into bed and said to my wife
"i need a hug"
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:24, archived)
# Before or after
he robbed the train and did a runner to Brazil?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:46, archived)
# :)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:49, archived)
# "Raymond Briggs was doing time until he dun a bunk,
now he says he's seen the light and sold his soul to Punk!"
;)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:52, archived)
# \o/
:)
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:59, archived)
# Ah yes!
Of course! He illustrated the Allan Ahlberg books, like Happy Families and the like didn't he?

As well as The Snowman obviously....
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:47, archived)
# you're thinking
of janet ahlberg.

appart from about the snowman, that is briggs, obviously.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:56, archived)
# Oh I see!
You live and learn :D

Their styles are quite similar though, aren't they?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:58, archived)
# they are
more or less the same era of kids illustration
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:08, archived)