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Thursday, September 21, 2006

My Guilt Lifts.... He's Back!

Thank heaven, Jeffrey's back with three stonking posts. The sentence about Paul Collingwood's wife going into Labour is especially fine with a use of the word 'understandably' that should be taught in schools. I am free of my guilt, I have not ironised him offline.

# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 12:55 PM  

12 Comments:

  • At September 21, 2006 1:55 PM, Anonymous Andrew said…

    "One paper suggested that not many celebrities turned up...that particular journalist either wasn't there, or simply missed Tim Rice, David Frost, Britt Ekland, Peter Blake, Richard O'Brien, John Julius Norwich, Bill Oddie, and David Linley."

    Now that's what I call putting one in one's place. And for serious bonus marks, managing to mention a veritable army of celebs. You'd want to buck up your ideas Bryan- the most celebs I've seen you mention in a single post is possibly only two. Then again, how can you compete with the master.

     

  • At September 21, 2006 1:59 PM, Blogger Bryan Appleyard said…

    How indeed, Andrew? The truth is I don't get out much.

     

  • At September 21, 2006 2:22 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The hand of the master is clearly apparent in that exquisite placing of 'Bill Oddie'. Resonant, haunting...

     

  • At September 22, 2006 6:00 AM, Blogger Bryan Appleyard said…

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  • At September 22, 2006 6:02 AM, Blogger Bryan Appleyard said…

    Anon, a strange thing - he has withdrawn Bill Oddie!!!

     

  • At September 22, 2006 9:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Dear Christ - so he has!!! Perhaps he's had a rethink and has retired to his Grantchester sofa while an epic Flaubertian search for le mot juste (le nom juste) is under way. What will emerge to replace that seemingly perfect Oddie? Christopher Biggins perhaps?
    Anonymous and Shaken

     

  • At September 22, 2006 10:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    'The charities benefited to the tune of some £10,000, and I ended up with a table made out of oak from The Victory, when no-one would out-bid me'. This is a very carefully worded sentence - 'no one would outbid me' is specifically designed to make one aware that the other bidders were all well disposed towards him, thus refusing to bid for the table when he obviously wanted it so much. One can almost hear the cries of 'Ah, Jeffrey, bless 'im, let him have it, such a great man should have nothing less than a coffee table from The Victory?'
    Also - please note the replacements for The Great Twitcher - Terry O'Neill and Manolo Blahnik, who are obviously a higher calibre of celeb.

    Yours,

    J Cheever Loophole

     

  • At September 22, 2006 5:17 PM, Blogger Bryan Appleyard said…

    I have no asked Jeffrey what happened to Bill Oddie under the nom de guerre of 'An Admirer'. Comment moderation is enabled, however, so we may learn nothing. I do note that one Andrew has been commenting there.

     

  • At September 23, 2006 2:38 PM, Anonymous Andrew said…

    I have to plead guilty on hte Snowdon one, Bryan.

     

  • At September 23, 2006 2:55 PM, Blogger Bryan Appleyard said…

    I knew it! Anarchist. Inspired a brilliantly po-faced response.

     

  • At September 23, 2006 5:52 PM, Anonymous Andrew said…

    I actually feel a little guilty. You've a lot to answer for, Appleyard.

     

  • At October 03, 2006 11:41 PM, Blogger newscoma said…

    I have decided to make "stonking" my new word I use all the time.
    Of course, as a girl who lives in Tennessee, I use wanker and bloody all the time.
    I also say Ya'll and Howdy.
    I have my own language.

     

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