Comments on: Linda Smith is Dead http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 26 May 2012 20:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Crooked Timber » » Rod Hull and Emu http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-147066 Crooked Timber » » Rod Hull and Emu Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:58:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-147066 [...] If, like me, you adored Linda Smith, you might want to put aside 30 minutes to listen to the News Quiz tribute to her. If you’d never heard of Linda Smith until I mentioned her last week you should definitely listen to the tribute—30 minutes of an incredibly funny, and manifestly delightful, person. If she doesn’t make you laugh I don’t know what to say. (I’m not going to tell you what the name of this post refers to—you have to listen to the show). If the link above is slow, try this and then click on listen again. posted on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 at 11:22 am Post a comment [...] [...] If, like me, you adored Linda Smith, you might want to put aside 30 minutes to listen to the News Quiz tribute to her. If you’d never heard of Linda Smith until I mentioned her last week you should definitely listen to the tribute—30 minutes of an incredibly funny, and manifestly delightful, person. If she doesn’t make you laugh I don’t know what to say. (I’m not going to tell you what the name of this post refers to—you have to listen to the show). If the link above is slow, try this and then click on listen again. posted on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 at 11:22 am Post a comment [...]

]]> By: Chris Williams http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146361 Chris Williams Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:45:00 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146361 If only - I'd kill a former Washington State congresswoman to have the chance of seeing Linda Smith again ("Leicester. It's all hunting round here, isn't it? The Quorn Hunt. Those toffs'll chase anything - they'll be after the tofu next"). More here: http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1721225,00.html If only – I’d kill a former Washington State congresswoman to have the chance of seeing Linda Smith again (“Leicester. It’s all hunting round here, isn’t it? The Quorn Hunt. Those toffs’ll chase anything – they’ll be after the tofu next”).

More here:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1721225,00.html

]]> By: aretino http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146329 aretino Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:48:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146329 Here I was thinking you meant the former Washington State congresswoman. Here I was thinking you meant the former Washington State congresswoman.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146314 Kieran Healy Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:25:34 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146314 From the Indo obituary: <i>When a student yelled, "Show us yer tits", she retorted sweetly, "Ah, is it time for a breast feed" - resulting in a deservedly humiliated student. </i> She seemed to have that kind of wit to burn. From the Indo obituary:

When a student yelled, “Show us yer tits”, she retorted sweetly, “Ah, is it time for a breast feed” – resulting in a deservedly humiliated student.

She seemed to have that kind of wit to burn.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146313 Kieran Healy Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:20:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146313 How sad. I listen to reruns of the News Quiz on BBC7, and she was almost always the best thing about it. How sad. I listen to reruns of the News Quiz on BBC7, and she was almost always the best thing about it.

]]> By: nick s http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146308 nick s Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:27:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146308 Her apprenticeship for the News Quiz, if you can call it that, was at R5's 'The Treatment', which went under the radar for those who considered the station a bit of a mongrel. She was consistently brilliant. Her apprenticeship for the News Quiz, if you can call it that, was at R5’s ‘The Treatment’, which went under the radar for those who considered the station a bit of a mongrel. She was consistently brilliant.

]]> By: dave heasman http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146294 dave heasman Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:17:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146294 Mark Steel wrote the Indy's and it's free http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article348378.ece for now Mark Steel wrote the Indy’s and it’s free

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article348378.ece

for now

]]> By: bondbloke http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146288 bondbloke Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:40:55 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146288 A very great and a very sad loss to the world of comedy... A very great and a very sad loss to the world of comedy…

]]> By: Jasper Milvain http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-146285 Jasper Milvain Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:10:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/01/linda-smith-is-dead/#comment-146285 Jeremy Hardy also wrote the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1720290,00.html" rel="nofollow"><em>Guardian</em>'s obituary</a>. Jeremy Hardy also wrote the Guardian’s obituary.

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