Eh? Guardian Nice About Guido?
Says Co-Conspirators Are "Influential Elite"
Roy Greenslade has a long delayed Guardian piece today. He describes Guido's co-conspirator readers thus:
"What counts is the fact that his regular audience is drawn almost entirely from a small, but influential, elite."Guido is:
"the bastard lovechild of (former Sun editor) Kelvin MacKenzie and (rock gossip website) Popbitch".Pop!
60 comments:
Oh i am part of your regular audience which means I am of the "INFLUENTIAL ELITE" ... oh what shall i influence today :-)
Nice to be recognised for what one is!
Has Mr Greenslade ever actually visited your blog??!
Have zero influence and doubt I can be considered part of an elite group ... so I must be one of the very few audience members to fall outside that category.
Hurrah ... that makes me part of an elite group ! Now how can I wield some influence ?
M&S,
Darling everyone who matters reads this blog.
Heard that even No. 10's Benjamin Wegg-Prosser is "a fan".
Now must go stare at myself in the mirror...
Guido -
Benjamin Wegg-Prosser !!!! Surely that name is a comedic invention.
It closely rivals my all-time favourite:
Quentin H. Todd-Slaughter
(and that is for real !)
Dear Senor Guido
Being such an Elite, we should have a competition to nominate a Cabinet consisting of your Supporters
I propose :
Guido = Prime Minister
G Eagle = Pest Control Minister
Rain-Coaster = Ministress of Pacific & Colonial Affairs
Alles Gute
G Eagle
Ah VERVET you are now the most influencial of all...Hail VERVET...
can i ask should we put milk in our coffees??
Have zero influence and doubt I can be considered part of an elite group ... so I must be one of the very few audience members to fall outside that category.
Hurrah ... that makes me part of an elite group ! Now how can I wield some influence ?
Milk is an excellent source of vitamins and calcium, so you should use it in your coffee .... unless you eat a lot of cheese, and then you are just adding to your cholesterol level, so you should take it black ...
Oh no - the pressure of having influence is just too much to handle - I can't do it ... please let me return from the influential elite to the powerless mass.
Goody.
They've tried the ' lets dismiss 'em as an irresponsible fantasists' route, then the 'sexist/tory nerds' ploy - and now it's the 'minority agenda with undeserved influence' gambit. It'll be 'conspiracy' next, you mark my words.
They're getting worried.
Serves 'em right. They've spent too long looking at the world through comfortable Guardian-coloured glasses, constantly re-cycling the same old garbage that's a couple of decades past its sell-by date, and the mutual dorsal fricatation merry-go-round is getting very creaky.
Poor things.
When it all goes tits-up how will they possibly manage on that pension?
More like elite tossers.....
An endorsment from the Guardian is like listening to a mouse squeaking during sex...
BT,
Following the Gandhi idea? Ignoring, laughing, fighting -- could be some winning coming this way soon.
I bet he meant to type in 'effluential' but The Guardian's spelling checker overrode it.
I can recall some years ago laughter at Scallywag every time the late Angus Wilson tried to type his name in MS Word, only for the message to come up "are you sure you didn't mean anus?"
This may well be a 'Popbitch' derivative- but just keep that Minky bloke away from here.
At last I am an elite!
To put this into perspective this is Professor Roy Greenslade distinguished academic and serf to Robert Maxwell the acknowledged expert on pension management.
Guido I understand Mrs Fawkes' concerns re possible actions for damages. She, who must be obeyed, has a serious point. Take a leap of faith and transfer all assets to Mrs F. Then unleash the dogs of war on the'minister'. Mr Greenslade tips his hat your way. Caveat.
and I thought "small, but influential" was a reference to Prezza's willy
wow, I've never been elite or influential in my life. Even my dog ignores me. But hey, I've always been small so one out three ain't bad.
Talking of Prezza's willy, I stumbled upon an old (urine soaked) baglady the other day who claimed to have been "serviced" by Prezza that morning (guess that explains the urine soaking). Anyway, I asked about said willy and she said it was similar to a gherkin. "It's that big?!" I asked in incredulously. "No" she replied, "it's that sour".
"Darling everyone who matters reads this blog."
a hilarious set of replies to this!
hurrah.
Bt is right. Good Lord, next they'll be accusing us of subjecting virgins to horrific indignities, worshipping giant wooden owls, and drinking psilocybin - laden concoctions made from the saliva of South American marsupials.
And I, for one, have never worshipped an owl in my life.
Part of the elite. Wow! Done wonders for my flagging ego. I'll use that on my cv from now on. Potential clients will just flock through the door.
Wait 'til I tell the regulars in my local in sunny Leith about this.After they pick themselves up they might buy me a couple of drinks for brightening up their day.
Good Lord, indeed, Mr Gisoad! Whatever excitements are you teasing us with?
The first ever small but influential elite in history, to measure in the hundreds of thousands?
As for influence, I am nowt but a peasant.
Serf you keep your peasantries to yourself!
I am now a follower of VERVET the most elite of all despite his wobble on coffee .. which was only to teach us all humility :-)
Hail VERVET
ps VERVET any other tips to follow on the health concious ettiquette dilemas of modern life. Still or Sparkling water - I never know which to take ..and when offered a peerage should I buy or haggle? ..Guidance please
Guess I'm not so average any more :)
you know with all you other elite folk around we are all starting to appear fairly ordinary... this is medically known as "MP Syndrome".
apart of course form the wise one VERVET :-)
Yo Fawkes
You is right on de button man. Wot we need is respek from dem media normans - ah don't care if you got no fficial daddy cos you sure got dem balls from him.
Now turnin to the world situation in Hull is I not on the kipper when I says that de time has come for us to consida dat Prescott for de UN secondment, course he would change his name to Tofu Prescott.....dis is somethin I know is bubblin under.....
Well dat is all from de elite boys, I's got lots more but you need to go to de website man - snortdenews.co.uk
"his regular audience is drawn ..."
I seem to remember you were drawn once, Guido. What's it like?
unable to take likes of greenslade or shagbag toynbee seriously
even when he says I am one of the elite
just a typical grauniad nonentity
Having read Greenslade's article, I was fascinated by the following:-
'and, for good measure, tells me he has a humdinger of a tale about a government minister. He is mulling over the legal problems it presents. "My wife is a lawyer", he says, "and she isn't impressed with me going too close to the edge". Well, even Kelvin didn't print without thinking first. Sometimes'
Is this a Labourite rumour factory comment, or are you just providing matches for the furnace?
good to have you all in one place and I'm so glad we don't have to bother with all that steaming of envelopes anymore
How terrifying it is to have 'greatness' thrust upon one - now I know how Tracy Temple must have felt. (Oh hell, now I feel sick.)
These are great questions of the day upon which you seek guidance, regular audience .... but I'll do my best.
Always still water - it runs deeper and avoids the risk of unexpected trouser-trumpeting.
With regard to elevation to the peerage, for a fixed fee you should negotiate a 'get out of jail free' card as part of the contract. If this option is not available then you must accept the risk and negotiate a suitably reduced 'donation' (sorry, commercial loan!).
Also, you should always wear welding gloves when reading any article by Polly Toynbee - this minimizes the risk of self-harm.
An encomium from Roy Greenslade ? That's like, 'the Chairman and the whole board are right behind the manager'.
He spent the 'eighties (as did Alistair Campbell and Helen Lidell) offering to Robert Maxwell the sort of wise counsel, 'harsh, but fair, Sir', Galloway was to offer to Saddam.
Make sure you wear a lifejacket when you jump that shark, Guido.
Roy Greenslade's last words to Cap'n Bob before the tragic death of the newspaper magnate:
"Is it clean yet, Sir ? It's just that my tongue is getting very tired".
And you actually talked to Greenslime? I looked from man to pig, and pig to man....
Grauniad claims Co-Conspirators are influential elite.
But Grauniad is orthogonal to the truth.
Therefore Co-Conspirators are wailing dregs.
What an insult!
The end is nigh, Fawquez.
I can see you now, with your beedy little eyes, and not just because you had a good lunch, dribbling over the squillions this evil publishing enterprise could rake in.
Admit it, you are really the evil imp that swam ashore from the punctured inflatable once known as Cap'n Bob.
And now you're a media luvvie. Pukes all round...
Yeah the Popbitch comment I have heard from quite a few people. I thought Metal Sludge rather than Popbitch but same difference.
What counts is the fact that his regular audience is drawn almost entirely from a small, but influential, elite.
Typical Guardianista, talking out of its rear end!
I would not wish you to lose advertising revenue as a result of shattering the illusions of the likes of Mr Greenslade, but at least one of your most devoted readers (myself) is the complete antithesis of the above.
Your blog is simply one of the most (the most?) well informed and deliciously vicious sites in the blogosphere that allow ordinary nobodies like myself to articulate our utter contempt of and visceral loathing for the liberal establishment as a whole, and the current administration and their hangers-on in particular.
Were it not for such sites on which I could vent my spleen, I would probably have been driven to commit murder by now.
Mr Gisoad said...
And I, for one, have never worshipped an owl in my life.1:33 PM
I once commented positively on the admirable character of one but I think that falls short of actual worship.
As for elite,if skint, working-class, ageing bikers with shit attitudes,no money and 2 weeks worth of dishes festering in the sink are considered that then I guess I am.Influence my arse,I had a dyslexic Doctor,he gave me a jab,never had it since.
Believe me being rich isn't all it's cranked up to be. I just had to get out to NY to deal with yacht - still got to watch V for Vendetta with a shoulder rub in first class.
almost entirely from a small, but influential, elite."
I told you Guido not to mention my participation.........it ws supposed to be discreet
Well, I know I'm one of the elite anyway, since it was leaked to me that there was a file on me at Labour HQ in which I was labelled the 'eminence grise' of the local Tory Party.
So, even tho' the wrong sex, perhaps I should sign myself - yours faithfully, Cardinal Richelieu.
Never mind about "influential", what's all this about the audience being "small"?
Elite? What elite?
*licks eye*
*sheds skin*
Rain-Coaster = Ministress of Pacific & Colonial Affairs
If appointed I promise to serve. Which would be for once in my life.
Anyway, we DO appear to be influential, although I dunno about elite. My blog post on Lucy Gao outranks even the FT's story on Google. It outranks the blog I stole the idea from (and linked to).
Guido, are you pulling strings for your commentors? Very impressive, if so.
So, even tho' the wrong sex
You can change it in an FTM transformation and then you'd be perfect for the "A-List"
I wish you would all be more serious; I've never belonged to an influential elite before.
Rod The Brit
Rod:
Please explain why you believe that an 'influential elite' may not be frivilous .
if i'm now part of the "elite" do i get free membership of the Carlton Club?
wow - not bad for 20 quid a month broadband connection...
Influential elite? Not really.
Frustrated bunch of Little England spinsters? Most probably.
Non=Partisan 11pm
Most probably ? .... how Nu-Labourish - how unObservant
Guido's Canadian/South African commenters would be curious about how you could label them "Little England" spinsters
>Benjamin Wegg-Prosser<
I knew his dad. In the Wig & Pen, in the good old days when it was a decent afternoon drinking joint, he was known as Wig-Tosser.
>The Guardian's spelling checker <
Eh? Wot?
Why do people think that because I read the blog that I agree with it? I read it for fun.
And I am much too old to be a mover and shaker.
Dear Rosalind
I hope you will forgive my adapting an old Chinese Proverb
... Do not despise the snake
... Who knows - she may grow into a Dragon
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong
Your obedient servant etc
G Eagle
Influencial Elite? No doubt Guardian readers were jealous to hell about this comment.
Like Big Brother contestants or Blue Peter presenters.
I read the Observer in Cologne airport on Sunday. I am glad the circulation of their UK paper won't be effected. It was crap.
Non-partisan 11:00 PM said...
Influential elite? Not really.
Frustrated bunch of Little England spinsters? Most probably.
Or, as my late father used to say "old women of both sexes".
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