This is interesting.
I’ve just discovered (thanks to Lauretta Pearson) that the name Gideon actually means “Destroyer,” or “Feller of Trees” in Hebrew.
This isn’t satire by the way – it really does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon
Gideon, of course, was the Chancellor George Osborne’s original name before he decided to change it – obviously we now know to put us off the scent.
I’m not particularly religious but it makes you wonder if the ancient Israelites were trying to tell us something all those years ago.
Or maybe George’s parents already knew their son’s future destiny when they named him.
Even more amazingly, it seems that Marvel Comics were also trying to warn us about the evil destructive powers of our Chancellor. Well before George managed to get his hands around the throat of our economy, Gideon also featured as one of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse in Marvel Comic’s cult story ‘KING OF PAIN‘.
Here he is:
King of Pain? Destroyer?
Blimey! I’m going to have to start searching chapters of the Old Testament and back copies of X Men, just in case there was anything or anyone else in our present leadership they were trying to warn us about.
Any experts on the Bible or Marvel Comics know if there are references to a character called Dave in there? Or Jeremy? Or Iain?
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Natasha said:
Brilliant piece Tom. I’d try the Book of Revelation for more clues. And does Dave have any marks on him – like 666??? I’ll leave it to you to name the other horsemen of the apocalypse – we are talking war, famine, pestilence, death. Quite soon all of those will be coming to a street near all of us, right here in the UK……
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Tom Pride said:
They’re probably already here I’m sorry to say.
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Natasha said:
Think they’ve taken liberties – there are more than 4 of them……..
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Sam Turner (@samocalypse) said:
None of our politicians are charismatic enough to be the real Devil! They must be some of those horses from Revelations. Or just seriously pathetic and incapable who have absolutely no understanding of life as seen from a citizen’s perspective.
Can we get them out now before it’s too late? Which straw is gonna break the camel’s back? (that seems to have been diced in to small pieces over the past 15 years)
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smurfinator said:
And I like to call him ‘Gidiot’ and will always call him by that rather more deserved name.
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noneoftheabove1 said:
I presume you know that your favourite man IDS is actually GIDS, George Ian (one I) Duncan Smith
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