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Friday, March 23, 2007

Dave Doesn't Mention Rocking Horse

Dave is an occasional reader of this blog, so he'll no doubt be familiar with the legend. You don't think he was having a little dig on his blog here, do you?

38 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hope he's read the article by his old boss in the DT.
Robinson description on "Today" of Dave's 2p reaction,"His eyes widened and his jaw dropped".

Alastair Diack said...

Dave, doesn't even mention the problems he's having with his kids picking their noses so I'm sure that he's not poking fun at the bogeyman.

no longer anonymous said...

All we need is for this rumour to get off the internet and into the public eye. Then he's well and truly shafted. Even if nobody believes it the image will scar everybody's mind.

D. C. Warmington said...

The accretion of dried mucus in the Brownian hooter gives an entirely new twist on the phrase "endogenous growth theory".

Tom said...

McBroon is pandering to the trade unions, they also like to picket

Anonymous said...

At least it's not powder!Can everyone say that?

Anonymous said...

interesting indeed - you might have expected the headline to say 'green nappies and Brown's budget', but he may also have wanted to avoid the 'spin' on the mirror story about him talking green and not following through..

But then if you can hear the doggy whistle, it hasn't worked..

Anonymous said...

At least it's not powder!Can everyone say that?

Do you know, I've now decided that anyone who thinks that youthful indulgence in recreational narcotics precludes someone from being a good politician is a) very small minded, b) a bit stupid and c) probably drives a rover, views Austin Reed as 'risqué', and thinks that the Mail 'tells it like it is.'

There are some quite valid reasons to attack the Opposition. Whether some of them once inhaled a line of baby powder cut with c. 5% plant extract should be a matter of supreme indifference to anyone who gives even half a fuck about Britain.

sorry this isn't funny. The coffee machine's broken.

jungian said...

Whilst the film of Brown picking his nose and eating it is all very amusing there is a far more worrying side to it than that.

There is a strong taboo about performing such behaviour in public. Even very young infants know that it is not permitted to pick your nose in public and that some form of censure will follow from it.

The fact that Brown, an adult male, becomes disinhibited enough (while under pressure of his forthcoming budget speech) to not only pick his nose several times but also eat it and then wipe his fingers on his tie, while sitting next to the Prime Minister and being televised live by the BBC, IS A VERY WORRYING MATTER FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.

Such behaviour is the action of a man who is so emotionally unstable that he is unable to control himself while under pressure.

The fact that he did it while being televised suggests that Brown is DETACHED FROM REALITY. To some extent he appears to be living in a bubble, or in political terms, it may be better described as a BUNKER.

A bunker mentality is a common trait of many authoritarian megalomaniacs.

I am extremely concerned that such a psychologically damaged man is likely to become the next Prime Minister.

tactical voter said...

I couldn't give a toss if he was on the white stuff now.

In fact, give Dave and Tony a nice fat line each just before PMQ's and sit back and enjoy the show.

See how long they keep going until Tonys heart problem (which is probably due to a rampant habit in itself) sparks him out on the floor.

now that's a lot more entertaining than watching Gordo pick his nose & eat it..

backwoodsman said...

anon 9.27, they're wasting their time with that line of attack - if my local party, who are a typical shire party, are anything to go by.
Most members have taken the odd dose of bolivian marching powder or equivilent in their past.
Its what you do now that counts and DC now does the family thing. Oh, and he isn't a robbing bastard trying to destroy the economy of the country in some sad socialist experiment.

bedehouse said...

Nose picking apart last night on This Week Wilf Stevenson was asked by Andrew Neil to speculate on what the budget meant. Spoke Stevenson: "I'm a think tank director, I think 15 years ahead."

how green is Brown's nappy? said...

Funny how the Brownite anonymongs are desperately trying to divert attention from Brown's bogey eating.

This one has got them badly rattled. Gordon is the laughing stock of Westminster today and he's worried this will destroy his ambitions.

Ryan said...

"The fact that Brown, an adult male, becomes disinhibited enough ... to not only pick his nose several times but also eat it and then wipe his fingers on his tie, while sitting next to the Prime Minister and being televised live by the BBC"

More importantly he had the entire opposition benches full to the brim staring at him while that was going on! You might conceivably believe he had forgotten about the cameras, but why did the poor Tories have to suffer that god awful display?

Tim Ireland Too said...

Please don't ignore me. I love you.

Rich said...

Nice picking has made me like Brown more. Winston Churchill was also quite the public nose picker...

Funny, I always heard the nappy story about Blair, not Brown. But that was from BBC Parliament people, and we all know what they're like...

an insider said...

I hear there has been a sudden outbreak of overt nose picking amongst candidates for the Deputy PM job.

FergusMac said...

How did the old song go:

Gordon Broon is doin' it, doin' it, doin' it,
Picking his nose and chewing it, chewing it, chewing it ...

Anonymous said...

Been reading some of the old blogs and now realise how niave I've been, I always thought Brown's black hole was something to do with the economy not his sexual preference!

Indigo said...

I read somewhere that one's nose is a perfect reservoir of germs.

And I'm with "jungian" (9.39) - Gordon Brown is not in contact with reality.

I will never never never forgive the Labour backbenchers for not having the guts to ditch Blair and co before the invasion of Iraq - when they really could have done so, for lying about the intelligence on Iraq - this country is in so much trouble if Stalin H^H^H^H Brown becomes Prime Minister, and it will be the fault of the spineless, complacent, unprincipled, self-serving Labour backbenchers.

Not content with raiding the "money for good causes" Lottery to pay for the Olympics, Brown's Budget has deducted £71 million from what goes to charities via Gift Aid. Labour MPs - history will recount how you cretins have betrayed us.

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skid marx said...

how green is Brown's nappy? said...
Funny how the Brownite anonymongs are desperately trying to divert attention from Brown's bogey eating.

This one has got them badly rattled. Gordon is the laughing stock of Westminster today and he's worried this will destroy his ambitions.

9:53 AM

Westminster? the laughing stock of the world by now I should think!

michaelfootsarse said...

worst of all he wouldnt turn up to defend his budget but wentto a meeting about Northern Ireland. Who wants a cowrad like him runningteh armed forces?

This from the bloke who donated 100m of our money to Iraq reconstruction the day he landed....

Peter Hain for PM.......we need someone with backbone and moral courage not Brown or Bliar!

michaelfootsarse said...

worst of all he wouldnt turn up to defend his budget but wentto a meeting about Northern Ireland. Who wants a cowrad like him runningteh armed forces?

This from the bloke who donated 100m of our money to Iraq reconstruction the day he landed....

Peter Hain for PM.......we need someone with backbone and moral courage not Brown or Bliar!

javelin said...

BBC News - Brown told the Today programme he was only in politics to make a difference to people's lives, adding: "There are plenty of other things I can do and plenty of other things I want to do."

He's written his resignation speech already!

Ryan 2 said...

"There are plenty of other things I can do and plenty of other things I want to do."

He was talking about digging his nose

Tuscan Tony said...

"Dave is an occasional reader"

..and an occasional, rather angry commenter under the "George Street" pseudonym too, I suspect

D. C. Warmington said...

"Peter Hain for PM.......we need someone with backbone and moral courage not Brown or Bliar!"

His prodigious gifts of conceit, delusion and self-interest are needed far more across the water -- though I suppose it's a pity that Blair saw fit to appoint, as the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, an orange man.

gotcha said...

Well, Gordon Brown's nose picking exploits have today gone mainstream!

Tom Utley refers craftily to it towards the end of his column in today's Daily Mail.

"caught picking his nose"

Dave Bartlett said...

I'm not familiar with the legend. Can someone please explain this 'rocking horse' thing?

Tuscan Tony said...

dave bartlet

allegations....photos...Gordon naked but for a nappy....mounted on wooden equine quadruped....snaps in possession of prescott...or mandelson...explains why they have jobs....

Anonymous said...

bedehouse said...Spoke Stevenson: "I'm a think tank director, I think 15 years ahead."

Does that mean sitting in his room drawing pictures of 'starfighters' and giant robots that embezzle public money and run around stamping on poor people

no longer anonymous said...

"I'm not familiar with the legend. Can someone please explain this 'rocking horse' thing?"

Copied from another thread:

Guido Fawkes Esq. said...
The Gordon rocking horse nappy story is, like many legends, something that has been handed down through the years by word of mouth.

The key players in the story vary from story-teller to story-teller. The key components of the story alter and the degree of detail can also alter upon each re-telling.

The unchanging facets of the story involve rocking horses, nappies, the one-eyed-cyclops himself and photos.

The photos are the Holy Grail of this legend. The keeper of the Holy Grail is said by some to be the Great Circus Master himself. In this version of the legend he stores the images deep in the dungeon vaults of News International. In other versions of the story our Trade Commissioner keeps them and in more plausible versions of the legend Prezza keeps them with his little black book as insurance. The latter could explain his grip on office...

As a boy Guido enjoyed Greek legends, this Scottish tragi-comedy is presumably just another fable.

Rich said...

I heard Mandy on a rocking horse with a friend... of course, seen no photos, but it did provide the McGuffin for the sitcom pilot "The Lavender Millbank Mob", specifically the episode "The Politician's Beard" which got one airing on HTV a fair few years go... and that was all...

Anonymous said...

The friend was Gordon

Brownbadger said...

The most unlikely person to be a successful PM...............

Gordon Brown wins by a nose

Henry North London said...

I didnt realise Cameron was a Fire Horse( chinese astrology)

Hes young innit!

Gordon still wins by a nose

children who pick their noses should be smacked said...

Just returned to the UK today, and read news for the first time

What a disgusting performance by a Prime Minister in waiting

Applling mannres
Even a 5 year old wo7uld not do anything like that in public

filthy , disgusting, and to think that Labour will want him to leads our country

Just how low have we sunk?

Just imagine if that had been a Tory- the demand for him to resign would have been deafening

MAYBE WE HAVE JUST SEEN THE PRE VIEW FOR THE NEXT TORY POSTER FOR THE GENERAL ELETION?



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