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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #30 on: March 06, 2008, 02:15:09 PM »
'Kin ell'

Not the famous '97 incident?

On a par with the Great Winter of 62 and the great eathquake of 08 whistle:
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #31 on: March 06, 2008, 02:17:17 PM »
Quote from: Nick on March 06, 2008, 02:00:26 PM
No, it means I don't trust effing journalists and refuse to have my name put to comments. Ever since that incident in 1997 evil:

Know what you mean.
Back in 1972 I got stitched up by the local BBC Radio in a recorded interview that they subsequently "edited" to the point that I was heard saying things completely the opposite to that which I had really said. Their excuse to my complaint was "Shortage of time on the programme" ..... BUT apparently enough time to edit the 30 minutes down to four new questions recorded and my answers cut and pasted in as replies to the new questions in a distorted manner that just happened to suit the point they were trying to make.  evil:
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #32 on: March 06, 2008, 02:19:54 PM »
Precisely!!

The 1997 incident was one of a journo calling me on the mobile just as I was about to descend into Oxford Circus tube.

"What do you think of X?"
"I think it's a pile of crap, why?"
"That's all"

Headline in national trade publication the next week "Mr Nick says X is CRAP!" redface:
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #33 on: March 06, 2008, 02:36:39 PM »
Yup.

I was a trade union offcial and there was an unofficial dispute going on. I was interviewed and tried to put the case for both sides and explained why the Union would not be making the "action" "official" with all that would imply. At one point I said "The problem is that a few of those involved have convinced themselves that they have been sold down the river ~ this is patently nonsense but it is a point of view that we need to address with the local management"
Intro to prog article "UNION SAYS WE'VE BEEN SOLD DOWN THE RIVER BY POST OFFICE MANAGERS" and then Intervewer asking "Would you agree that your members have been sold down the river by local management?"
and me saying "It is a problem that we need to address"
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #34 on: March 06, 2008, 02:43:15 PM »
And have you stopped beating your wife?
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #35 on: March 06, 2008, 02:44:21 PM »
'cactly. B@st@rds!
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #36 on: March 06, 2008, 02:48:38 PM »
I will now forward this thread to a jounalist acquaintance. Are you willing to be interviewed about it?

See also: involuted
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #37 on: March 06, 2008, 02:51:10 PM »
 lol: whistle:
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2008, 02:53:08 PM »
ME ME! I'LL BE INTERVIEWED!
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2008, 02:53:51 PM »
I will set that up for you!
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #40 on: March 06, 2008, 03:13:06 PM »
Can I be the pub Defence Correspondent please and can I have a nice uniform for the piccies and some medals would be cool, Prince Harry's flack jacket and Glock/Browning would look good too. eh? please! cloud9:
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #41 on: March 06, 2008, 03:13:48 PM »
Get to the right thread!
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #42 on: March 06, 2008, 03:15:06 PM »
Quote from: grumpyoldsoldier on March 06, 2008, 03:13:06 PM
Can I be the pub Defence Correspondent please and can I have a nice uniform for the piccies and some medals would be cool, Prince Harry's flack jacket and Glock/Browning would look good too. eh? please! cloud9:
Of course GOS...  shrugs:
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #43 on: March 06, 2008, 03:15:49 PM »
I fear he may have gone bonkers. noooo:
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Re: I Bet This left a few skid marks!
« Reply #44 on: March 06, 2008, 03:16:48 PM »
Quote from: Nick on March 06, 2008, 03:15:49 PM
I fear he may have gone bonkers. noooo:
Like that bloke at Colditz?
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