beamendsltd wrote:
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|| "Richard Brookman"
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||| beamendsltd wrote:
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||||| The trouble is we all do the "do as I say, not as I do" thing to
||||| some extent! The one that's bugging me this week (Cpl. 123456
||||| Smith of the 63rd Hobby Horse Division) is the musician type (I
||||| forget the name) on telly telling us we should all be saving the
||||| planet,
||||| yet his group use enough power at one gig to run a reasonably
||||| sized village for a week, and entire fleet of trucks to move
||||| their gear, plus the jetting about just to do an interview (to
||||| promote sales, no doubt).
|||
||| Would that be the **** in the funny sunglasses,
||
|| Not Mr. "Don't I look a prat in these" Bono! (I'd have
|| turned over),
I'm always suspicious of people who invent a nickname and then insist on
everyone calling them by it. I knew a lad at primary school who went round
demanding that everyone called him "Rusty" after some character in a cowboy
show. We all continued calling him Stanley or whatever and thought he was a
tosser. He had the excuse of being 9 years old, though. Nicknames have to
be bestowed on you by others to have any credibility. I wonder if Bono and
"Sting" were really called that by their mates, or was it a PR consultant's
bright idea? If I ever met them I would insist on calling them Mr Hewson
and Mr Sumner, just to wind them up.
||| or the **** with the scruffy
||| hair and the Irish accent?
||
|| I actually quite like him - I think he's more likely to agree
|| than disagree, but I don't recall hearing him "doing" the
|| environment as such.
ISTR that when he was asked why he didn't contribute some of his millions to
the aid programme he was haranguing the rest of us about, he muttered
something about that "not being the issue". I lost a lot of respect for the
guy at that point.
|| The one I was thinking of was one from one of the "we're not doing
|| wery well, so I'll say something 'clever'" bands.
Don't know any of those ...
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Rich
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