International Cliche Day: A LLB Look Back
Today is International Cliche Day and so I’ve decided it would be a perfect time to remember the most memorable “Looks Like Beirut” comments of the past months:
January 2009: “…I won’t spend a lot of money tearing down those houses. If that’s going to be Beirut, let it be Beirut, but don’t let Beirut grow…”
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Beirut or Broadgate?
That’s according to telegraph.co.uk’s Jonathan Russell’s opinion on the state of crime in London:
An article in the greatly undervalued and generously over-punctuated Badge – billed as “the voice of the London cab driver’s club” – reports that traffic wardens, sorry civil enforcement officers, are now too scared [...]
“Locals Now Call it ‘Beirut’”
So what exactly makes Orchard Park on the northern border of Cambridge in the UK look like Beirut? Well according to Geramine Greer’s report, it is this:
…exhibited “varying styles and quality of design around key features . . . poor quality of build, external gas pipes, poor bricklaying … and buildings erected in the wrong [...]
“Like a Beirut Street Whore”
I really don’t know what to say, though I thought “street whores” looked a like regardless of their geographic location. Anyway, the comment was made by a celebrity blogger commenting on the feud between Demi Moore and Perez Hilton. Here’s the low down:
[Demi] Moore decided to ignite a Twitter fight with Perez for three-week-old tweets [...]
“It’s Like Living in Beirut!”
I guess I spoke too soon:
Frightened residents being terrorised by rampaging neds in an Airdrie street have claimed – “it’s like living in Beirut!”
Around 30 youths are making life hell for families in flats at the bottom end of Springholm Drive in The Rushes.
Well since this was a collective response, an LLB Certificate will go [...]
