This Brand/Ross malarkey

[bon3yard]

Have they been arrested then? If not, why not?

[SimonM]

Because Andrew Sachs refused to make a complaint

[*Bob*]

But Simon, it doesn't matter what that senile, incapable coffin-dodging pensioner thinks. He can't make his own mind up anyway, being old and all.

Thank God we have a flock of forty thousand sheep on hand to set the idiot right. Baaaa...

[bon3yard]

Icy.

[Brendan]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Brendan Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I would just like to state for the record that

> I

> > was a fan of satanic sluts before they went

> > mainstream.

>

> They were good when they were on Alternative

> Tentacles.

Eh? You mean they're some sort of band? I thought it was just a lifestyle choice.

[bon3yard]

Her Grandad was obviously already a very proud man before RossBrandgate. ;-)

[vivienne]

How did they get his personal telephone number?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Viv. Please tell me you are joking with that question? He was lined up to be interviewed on the show. . . It was when if didnt do the interview that they started to call him back with the silly voice mails

[Tony.London Suburbs]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

He was lined up to be interviewed on the show.

It was when if didnt do the interview that they started to call him back with the silly voice mails

Hell hath no fury like a Wossy scorned...

p.s.Sean: Hope you did not mind me re-arranging your thoughts as I feel your comments are now easier to read and you will,thus, reach a wider audience accordingly.(tu)

[SeanMacGabhann]

Tony, mobile phone keypads are evil and you are a gent sir

More intelligent opinion than mine can be found here

David MItchell

which I found absolutely spot on. I expected him (as a social conservative) to have taken a different tack but it's hard to disagree with anything he has written

A more obvious, but no less pertinent column from

Charlie Brooker

mines a similar seam

[*Bob*]

"Readers.. this is a fundamental issue about the disgraceful treatment of a pensioner"

"Ring this number to complain"

Bugger.. the old fool won't play ball. What now?

"Readers.. this is fundamental issue about how the BBC is run"

"Ring this number to complain"

"Ring this number if you're largely incapable of making you're own mind up about anything any need to be told what to get angry about (and why) on a daily basis by a self-serving press which is only too happy to oblige."

[mockney piers]

Blimey, Charlie's changed his tune, clearly befriending one worthless celebrity nobody is all it takes....

[Jah Lush]

Yawns...this is so last week.

[mockney piers]

Are you suggesting it's not the most important story of our times Jah?

Perhaps Wossy should emply Harry Redknapp, seems to do the trick for most situations (as long as you're not Southampton)

[Jah Lush]

Yeah deffo. I'm much more concerned about Jordan and Peter Andre getting back together aren't you? Oh! and isn't there some sort of election going on this week somewhere? Err....? John McCain, doesn't he make those very tasty oven chips?

[Brendan]

Yeah there?s this guy who is an oven chip baron of some sorts. He?s running for Governor General of the American territories. He has hired the fella from Monty Python, lumberjack uniform and all, as the ?face? of his advertising campaign.

The villain is an ex employee of the chip baron. He?s shifty and used his sharp teeth to chew through his tether one night and made a run for the coastal states where his sort are allowed to walk around free as birds in the daylight. He wears a turban, carries a scimitar and spends his days poring over a map of the empire and laughing maniacally.

[mockney piers]

Well quite Jah, Jordan is a symbol of our troubled times and a role model for how a savvy, entrepreneurial business woman can live the American dream....in Herne Bay or whatever

[SeanMacGabhann]

if you think the story is about Brand and Ross then yes it's trivial and last week. I'm more worried about the witch-hunt/McCarthyesque aspect of it

[bon3yard]

Hey, thats the rough outline of the plot for the next Coen Bros movie. Working title: "Maris Piper heads West".

[Jah Lush]

Oh! feck yeah!

[Brendan]

What?s the deal with this Maris Piper bint anyway? She seems to work in every pub from here to Hoxton these days and she?s pushed the price of chips up by double.

[vivienne]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Viv. Please tell me you are joking with that

> question? He was lined up to be interviewed on the

> show. . . It was when if didnt do the interview

> that they started to call him back with the silly

> voice mails

I wonder why he didn't do the show?

[bon3yard]

SM, you mean that there are people with vested interests and an agenda out there who would delight in the collapse of the Beeb? I heard that Shrill Asshead Jon Gaunt(medieval name for a medieval attitude)calling for a privatised BBC this morning, the very same BBC that clothed and fed him for a bafflingly long time. Now there is proof positive that Auntie caters for all tastes if ever one was needed.

[SeanMacGabhann]

If you get a chance, pick up a copy of Gaunty's book in Smiths or someplace and have a flick through - it's either hilarious or scary depending on how many people youthink believe this stuff. I'm going with scary based on what I've seen in the last week

[Cassius]

Jon Gaunt for Sarah Palin as President - says it all really.