Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

 

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.
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"Big Brother's history of bother", BBC News online, January 17, 2007
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Referring to recovering alcoholic Michael Barrymore while in the Celebrity Big Brother 2006 house.

 

George Galloway

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