Petition - please sign

I received this e-mail from a good friend - reading it made me angry. His son has CF and has just turned 18 years old.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to remove NHS prescription charges for adult sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis. Before being elected to power in 1997, this government made a commitment to remove prescription charges for adult sufferers of the genetic condition Cystic Fibrosis (CF). CF is an incurable genetically transmitted condition which often results in death in childhood or early adulthood and is the only illness of its type where sufferers have to pay for prescriptions for life saving day to day treatments. To date this government has yet to uphold it's pledge of over 10 years ago.

Please click here to sign the petition.

Overheard at the Cambridge Folk Festival

How about a sea shanty? Actually, how about a disco sea shanty? We found it in the Oxford Book of Disco Sea Shanties.
   - Bellowhead intro

You people at the very back - did you enjoy Nanci Griffith... from a distance?
   - Opening remarks from Shooglenifty, the final act on Sunday night, following the incomparable Nanci, who did sing mostly crowd-pleasing hits

Only people who think they are cool don't like "Imagine".
   - Irate fellow punter to me, after he overheard my remarking that I was disappointed in Joan Baez' selection of closing song (IMHO, Lennon in trite, dreary mood). Joan did score the most cool points earlier, however, with a goose-pimple inducing version of Tom Waites' Day After Tomorrow.

The sumbitch wasn't plugged into the motherf@cker.
   - Steve Earle explaining temporary mandolin technical amplification hitch. Gee, these musicians do have some unique jargon, don't they?