Who said we re all doomed

I'm sure there are plenty of serious Dad's Army fans and comedy boffins out there who will claim proudly that they have never made such a ridiculous error - but I'll have to confess - I've done it myself. I've used the "all". I don't mind admitting it. It's not as bad as the horrendous pop culture slip-up a friend once made. Oh the shame of it. My point is - correctly repeated or not - "We're all doomed! It has become a social tool, and a significant one at that, particularly in moments of conversational awkwardness and day to day feelings of depression.

I would guess that it is being well used right now, in the current climate of economic gloom and global catastrophe. If you happen, as I often do, to start one of those unfortunate conversations about the news headlines and then get a bit bogged down in the grimness of it all - the impending global economic meltdown, World War III and the BBC's cancelling of Shooting Stars - then Frazer's catchphrase is the stock get-out.

At some point in the conversation, preferably before you've reached the point where one of you decides to jump out of the nearest window, or climb into the bath holding the toaster , it has thankfully become accepted that one of you will open your eyes wide, arch your eyebrows and say in a high pitched, cod Scottish accent "We're all doomed!

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I am deeply thankful for this since, to quote President Abraham Lincoln, "I laugh because I must not cry. Matthew Rozsa is a staff writer for Salon. Sticky Header Night Mode. Related Articles. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed. Music, Music, Music.

Boys, Boys, Boys. Everyone should, thus, leave their ivory tower, now and then, and roll up their sleeves to help the sheeple to break the mold, those who have been doomed to remain unconstructed and unfit to experience revivifying awareness and gratifying conditions.

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