"Hairdresser, shop assistant and babysitter are some of the more common phoney offers of employment they receive.
Either way, it highlighted how imperfectly the Conservative prime minister has learned from Tony Blair, his thrice-victorious New Labour predecessor, who was a far more accomplished phoney football fan.
But although the climax has little credibility (there were a few audible groans in the audience), thematically it's completely on the money, proving that Clover's theories about empowering gender reversals in apparently sleazy movies are much more than phoney-baloney rhetoric.
The French and Italian governments, in danger of incurring the EU's wrath over their fiscal stances, are similarly keen to leave the austerity years behind.Until now, Europe's fiscal squabbles have rarely amounted to more than a phoney war.
When she stops, I ask if she knew she would be so good a party leader, by which I mean, mostly though not exclusively, that she somehow makes the vast majority of other politicians look even more weird and phoney than usual.
Perhaps young people who did not know the cold war threat of nuclear annihilation are more susceptible to the phoney scaremongering of today.
The seat of his Spitfire Mark I had as yet no armour plating, and he still wore the white pilot's overalls and leather helmet of peacetime – but the black smoke and crowded beach below showed Allan Wright, on his first operational mission, on 23 May 1940 over Dunkirk, that the war was phoney no more.
Joy! Or – to put that more soberly, after the phoney war ushered in by those Mission Fabulous trailers – the first episode of this weekend's double bill will have six couples doing competitive hoofing out on the floor for the first time under the critical gazes of Len Goodman and friends.
Since then, George Bush and John Kerry have wrangled over some details of the combat but the campaign has recently spent far more time on a phoney argument over Swift boats, Vietnam medals and Alabama National Guard records.The main reason for this is that Mr Kerry has been all over the place on Iraq: you could barely tell why he voted for the war or what he would have done differently.
Far from being the lurid dive portrayed in No Exit, almost a decade and a half after the Velvet Revolution - actually, more Dralon, considering what a phoney Havel was - the Czech Republic is not just surviving but thriving.
