Dr Mel Gibson
@drmelcomics.bsky.social
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I’m an academic and ex-librarian who loves, promotes and researches comics and graphic novels. I also do research around audiences, memory, libraries and childhood. Owned by two ponies, Bailey and Dale.
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[show exterior of a comprehensive primary school, voice of TEACHER taking assembly emanating from it]:
TEACHER:
Ok children
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[Interior of school hall, TEACHER is taking school ASSEMBLY]
TEACHER:
Now the next hymn we're going to sing is one of your favourites...
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[she puts the words to a hymn up on the interactive whiteboard. It's title is]:
'Better-Off Families Should Pay Less For Their Summer Holidays'
CHILDREN;
Yay!
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[the children all sing]:
God made the cloud of starlings
God made the flock of sheep
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God made the kids at private school
Get holidays for cheap
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God made the herds of Land Rovers
That stream across the plain
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Two weeks before the rest of us
For cut-price stays in Spain!
[show exterior of the school, while Land Rovers stream past it down the road, with surfboards and bikes on top]
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God made the two-tier system
God made the Hidden Hand
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God made two weeks in Bog-nor
Cost upwards of two grand!
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Aaaaaaa-meeeeeen...!
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TEACHER:
Very good children
[show exterior scene again, Land Rovers etc]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreia5wmxguqfmnxju56hohubuk6r7yblfbavly4ghk2hbs27m3kmvkq)
