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Hi, everyone!

I just wanted to let you all know that I certainly didn't mean to disappear from here for a while. Something happened to me which shocked me a great deal. If any of you would like to know what it is, please ask me privately. I would rather it be kept secret.

Ironically, tomorrow will be my first day back to work in quite some time, so my posting time here will be limited. I wanted to let every one of you know that everything is ok, and you shouldn't worry about me.

Thank you.

Jason, did you pen this speech?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Matthew Green wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

OMG. And I thought Bush was thick.

Those of you who are wondering, please ask me in private.

Okay Jason, I'll ask you this in public instead:

Jason, have you ever written a poem?

And Jason, how do you think American poetry compares to British poetry?

Yes.

Both forms of poetry are very similar.

Anyone who knows me will know I know very little about most things, including famous people. There should be no surprise there.

Jason Larsen wrote:Those of you who are wondering, please ask me in private.

It's almost like you want us to know.

None of my business Jason but wouldn't it have been better to have just slipped quietly back in without an announcement couched in terms that invites people to ask you?

I try not to be personal but, having read quite a few of your posts since arriving in this nether world, you do seem to be a rather strange young man.

I suspect that Kirk is actually a big fan of TAFKAP and, in accordance with TAFKAP's wishes, decided to deny the existence of anyone called 'Prince'.

True dedication.

Matthew Green wrote:I suspect that Kirk is actually a big fan of TAFKAP and, in accordance with TAFKAP's wishes, decided to deny the existence of anyone called 'Prince'.

Reminds me of the line-at-a-time limerick game in an edition of ISIHAC that produced the following:

The artiste formerly known as Prince
On stage used to posture and mince
Then just for a giggle
Changed his name to a squiggle
And nobody's heard of him since.

Phil Reynolds wrote:

Matthew Green wrote:I suspect that Kirk is actually a big fan of TAFKAP and, in accordance with TAFKAP's wishes, decided to deny the existence of anyone called 'Prince'.

Reminds me of the line-at-a-time limerick game in an edition of ISIHAC that produced the following:

The artiste formerly known as Prince
On stage used to posture and mince
Then just for a giggle
Changed his name to a squiggle
And nobody's heard of him since.

It's possible Kirk's now curled up, crying in the bottom of his darkest wardrobe at the social stigma of not knowing who Prince/TAFKAP/Squiggle is, and to be honest, with those revelations it's probably best he stays there. Real life (outside the wardrobe/internet/Countdown studio) must be a bewildering experience for him.

Sue Sanders wrote:Real life (outside the wardrobe/internet/Countdown studio) must be a bewildering experience for him.

Aw, that's so sad.

Sue Sanders wrote:
It's possible Kirk's now curled up, crying in the bottom of his darkest wardrobe at the social stigma of not knowing who Prince/TAFKAP/Squiggle is, and to be honest, with those revelations it's probably best he stays there. Real life (outside the wardrobe/internet/Countdown studio) must be a bewildering experience for him.

Ha I couldn't give two shits who Prince is, or isn't. I'm proud not to know famous people - means I don't spend my life watching TV or reading shitty magazines or watching films and asking who the characters are in it (my mum once pointed Brad Pitt out to me but bugger me if I can remember what he looks like now).

Kirk Bevins wrote:Ha I couldn't give two shits who Prince is, or isn't. I'm proud not to know famous people - means I don't spend my life watching TV or reading shitty magazines or watching films and asking who the characters are in it (my mum once pointed Brad Pitt out to me but bugger me if I can remember what he looks like now).

Do you ever feel like you might be missing out on something by ignoring the entirity of modern culture? There are some good books, films, programmes, records etc as well as all the shitty ones. I'm sure there's some metaphor about babies and bathwater in here but I'm damned if I can remember it.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Kirk Bevins wrote:Ha I couldn't give two shits who Prince is, or isn't. I'm proud not to know famous people - means I don't spend my life watching TV or reading shitty magazines or watching films and asking who the characters are in it (my mum once pointed Brad Pitt out to me but bugger me if I can remember what he looks like now).

Do you ever feel like you might be missing out on something by ignoring the entirity of modern culture? There are some good books, films, programmes, records etc as well as all the shitty ones. I'm sure there's some metaphor about babies and bathwater in here but I'm damned if I can remember it.

O.k Charlie, I'll bite your bait. Is it - throwing the baby out with the bath water?

Charlie Reams wrote:[
Do you ever feel like you might be missing out on something by ignoring the entirity of modern culture? There are some good books, films, programmes, records etc as well as all the shitty ones. I'm sure there's some metaphor about babies and bathwater in here but I'm damned if I can remember it.

Sometimes but I think it would be so much effort to start from scratch and learn these famous people. I also struggle to put faces to names so even though I've seen Brad Pitt a few times, I've forgotten what he looks like again. I've resigned myself to being bit ignorant re: famous people and it is frustrating as it fucks me up in quizzes but I suppose I'm different and that's a good thing. (?)

Kirk Bevins wrote:I'm proud not to know famous people - means I don't spend my life watching TV or reading shitty magazines or watching films and asking who the characters are in it (my mum once pointed Brad Pitt out to me but bugger me if I can remember what he looks like now).

I like the implication that being able to recognise/knowing the names of famous people is simply a Bad Thing.

(I'm not very good at it, but I'm not very good at recognising people in general because of my omg disabled, but I'm not proud of it.)

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:Do you ever feel like you might be missing out on something by ignoring the entirity of modern culture? There are some good books, films, programmes, records etc as well as all the shitty ones.

Sometimes but I think it would be so much effort to start from scratch and learn these famous people.

Call me crazy but I think the point of reading good books, watching good films etc is in order to enjoy them, not to learn the names of famous people.

Phil Reynolds wrote: Call me crazy but I think the point of reading good books, watching good films etc is in order to enjoy them, not to learn the names of famous people.

Yeah, I sometimes watch films and enjoy them - particularly horrors. I also enjoyed reading autobiographies of darts players as I enjoy that kind of thing. Give me a novel though and it bores me.