Comments on: Farewell, Tel

By: engels

engels — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:49:51 +0000

If you google ‘Bono’ and ‘twat’ you can find a surprising variety of T-shirts and mugs expressing this sentiment.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:05:24 +0000

You took the X90 in preference to the train or even the Oxford Tube? Madness. Although managing to write a book on a long distance commuter coach is a monumental achievement.

By: Mrs Tilton

Mrs Tilton — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:02:38 +0000

SPotGS @43,

Heaney it is, if Ulstermen get counted in. If not, Van the Man

Ehhh, with what value of “Ulsterman” are you working there, if I may ask?

By: ejh

ejh — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:33:53 +0000

And after they had listened, what did they then do?

By: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan

Sock Puppet of the Great Satan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:29:24 +0000

“Maybe. He appears to have done a whole lot of useful stuff, much as I want to dislike him.”

I can’t forgive how annoying he was at the Self Aid concert in Dublin in the 1980’s.

Still, his ability to get the Bush admin to listen to him on aid to Africa, adn to work on AIDS in Africa, was seriously impressive.

By: Substance McGravitas

Substance McGravitas — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:54:19 +0000

Bono? In anybody’s opinion other than his own?

Maybe. He appears to have done a whole lot of useful stuff, much as I want to dislike him.

By: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan

Sock Puppet of the Great Satan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:38:20 +0000

Heaney it is, if Ulstermen get counted in. If not, Van the Man.

Incidentally, it’s interesting St. Columb’s in Derry City (where Heaney went to school) has two Nobel laureates in its alumni. Beats the shite out of its other Northern Irish diocesan boy’s school counterparts (St. Malachy’s, St. Patrick’s, St. Colman’s) in terms of the influence of its alumni.

By: ejh

ejh — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:26:01 +0000

Bono? In anybody’s opinion other than his own?

Given that Wogan hasn’t actually retired, isn’t this a lot of fuss about not very much? Bloke Changes Job, Hours isn’t really the same as National Indeed International Treasure Lost To Us Forever.

By: toby

toby — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:55:25 +0000

Greatest Living Irishman: Garret Fitzgerald, Seamus Heaney, Bono, Brian O’Driscoll,
Colm Toibin, Gay Byrne, Ray McSharry, Roy Keane …

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:51:34 +0000

Sean Hannity

By: Tomboktu

Tomboktu — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:10:43 +0000

Nah, not Heaney after he called for a Yes vote on Lisbon because “we had lost our way in Europe”. (As somebody said on one of the bligs I read, that happened to them too, but thay stopped a policeman to ask for direction.)

By: harry b

harry b — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:17:05 +0000

Oh, and Louis Theroux managed to make Paul Daniels and his wife (but especially Paul Daniels) seem endearing, partly though his consdierable efforts to do the reverse.

By: novakant

novakant — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:30:06 +0000

he actually managed to make Clarkson seem endearing, as though by osmosis.

Impossible – though Ali G managed to make Posh & Becks seem endearing (but then I don’t really mind posh girls and metrosexuals, as opposed to chauvinistic neanderthals)

By: Shmoe

Shmoe — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:35:00 +0000

I assume that “… the volume on the bbc iplayer goes to 11” refers to the recent xkcd

LOL! I believe that counts as trolling, or at least deliberately misleading the children who haven’t the faintest idea what Spinal Tap, or who Rob Reiner is. I’ll just be off preparing the hemlock. Then again bob has also just introduced me to rather hilarious web-comic, so maybe just exile for now.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:15:17 +0000

I assume that “… the volume on the bbc iplayer goes to 11” refers to the recent xkcd http://xkcd.com/670/?