Top Git host Jeremy Clarkson channels Margaret Thatcher:
Clarkson has apologised to fans who will have to use public transport to get to their shows in the RDS Simmonscourt in Dublin.
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"I can only apologise for that. Any one who finds themselves on public transport after the age of 26 must consider themselves a failure."
13 comments:
Git? Thats a bit weak. Just nipping off to get the bus. (But how many "lefties" do you know who secretly and not so secretly agree with him?)
BTW, that James May's stuff about theremins was quite good.
They can't all be winners, Mike.
Did he mention Pere Ubu?
"Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.
~ Duchess Loelia ~"
(he's not only an anti-Welsh racist but an unimaginative one)
That's even better than Thatcher:
Hon. Loelia Mary Ponsonby was born in 1902. She was the daughter of Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby and Victoria Lily Hegan Kennard. She married, firstly, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, son of Victor Alexander Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor and Lady Sibell Mary Lumley, on 20 February 1930. She and Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster were divorced in 1947. She married, secondly, Sir Martin Alexander Lindsay, 1st Bt., son of Lt.-Col. A. B. Lindsay, in 1969. She died in 1993.
From 20 February 1930, her married name became Grosvenor. From 1969, her married name became Lindsay.
And she never even saw a bus her entire life.
John, if you mean James May, I think in the book he wrote that featured the theremin the answer is no. Mrs Mikeovswinton got it autographed at the Trafford Centre (no, honestly) and the security men intervened - apparently: I was at the Reebok Stadium at the time - when Mr May got rather interested in her story about how she'd seen one played by MC Lord McGrao of guillemots at the Academy. So they hustled her away. She lent the book to her brother so I can't be certain.
"She never saw a bus her entire life." Was she waiting for the 12 from Bolton to Manchester circa 1975? If so, I know the feeling......
Just seen the Top Git on the box. 75€? 49,000? What were they thinking? There must be sod all on in Dublin at the moment.
Hi Mike--
Just saw the ad for his new DVD and realized who he is. He IS Alan Patridge.
"Photograph THIS!"
John; You are so right. But in a rather strange way Partridge has more hair, and I have the feeling that both of them would get worked up about cack like that.
John; I've only just twigged the gist of the start of this piece. Thatch hasn't gone over to the spirit world has she? I don't remember the obits or the funeral, but I'm a bit out of the loop these days, bothering about theremins and sport and stuff. (BTW, I think it was Norris who who came up with the line originally, and not Lady T.)
Hi Mike--
Clark has another source (see above), the Duchess of Westminster, who is cited as the source on some sites of the ever-reliable Internet. Maybe she was Norris in drag.
And trust me, if Thatcher had died, you'd know about it. The fireworks going off, for one thing.
And the 24-hour party at Counago & Spaves.
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