Now that wouldn't be a bad opening sentence.
But then he decides it would be a bad opening sentence: and sets off on an entirely different tack.
"It was a second-hand day for us, I don't think the boys were listening in the team meeting just now," said the 45-year-old, before castigating a defeat with a bad "opening, middle and finish".
When the Labor campaign was universally flayed in the press for a bad opening week, Mr. Mandelson saw his opportunity to remind his old enemy that he was still around.
Columbus will be hoping that a week off has been enough to regroup from a bad opening game, in time to face a Montreal team who were unable to turn a pressing display against Chicago into a win, in their raucous MLS home debut.
Not a bad opening, in anyone's language, and there is more, including an amusing digression a few pages later concerning her vehement dislike of pine forests: surely Fleming's own, since the Bond books thrive on his own prejudices and discoveries.
Ken Griffey Jr., who has been repeatedly sidelined by injuries since he joined his hometown team in 2000, had another setback today when he dislocated his right shoulder while trying to make a diving catch, making a bad opening week a lot worse for Cincinnati.
A bad opening weekend could mean a film makes a loss for a studio (ergo more "safe" brainless action blockbusters).
It's not a bad opening, but considering that the $35 million-budgeted film is supposed to be hell on Earth, I'm curious as to how general moviegoers respond.
There is a good-bad opening section that joins DeSylva, Brown and Henderson's "I Want to Be Bad" with Cole Porter's "It's Bad for Me," followed by the Gershwins' "Oh! Lady Be Good," and Richard Rodgers's "Something Good".
