Nothing Tra La La?
The blog of writer and producer Simon Guerrier
Friday, December 16, 2005
Orange
You've been ink slinging too long and too hard when, like yesterday, you're in fits of delight when the threat of a
yellow card
is dismissed as a
red herring
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