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* Along with [[Margaret Thatcher]], he was a regular character on the British puppet comedy series ''[[Spitting Image]]''. At first, he had a radar dish on his head to pick up orders from Thatcher; this was dropped later for a puppet depicted in shades of grey.

** The real kicker is that in an attempt to make Major a more interesting character, they invented an affair between him and Virginia Bottomley. Come 2002, [[Hilarious in Hindsight|there was a brand new context to those gags]], even though they could've been a bit more accurate with their prescience...

* ''[[Private Eye]]''`s prime ministerial parody was "The Secret Diary of John Major" (obviously based on ''The Secret Diary Of [[Adrian Mole]]'' in style) with [[Running Gag]]s "my wife Norman", "oh yes!", "I was not inconsiderably incandescent" and "the book of bastards".

* Major is described succinctly on ''[[The New Statesman]]'' as the only person who ever ran away from the circus (he did) to join a firm of accountants, rather than the other way round.

* He appears in Jack Higgins' ''Eye of the Storm'', which revolves around the aforementioned mortar attack on Downing Street.

* [[Kim Newman]] wrote two short stories about alternative versions of him under the banner title ''Alternate Majors'': "Slow News Day" and "The Germans Won" (the latter of which ''not'' being the [[Godwin's Law of Time Travel|alternative history]] you might be expecting).

 

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[[Category:The Men of Downing Street]]

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