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I was jolly amused by the "History Stuart Maconie style" thread so I sent a link to the editor section of The Guardian. Got this back from Michael Hann:

The imaginary words of Maconie will feature in Saturday's editor. Someone in the office was asking who he was. Another writer responded, helpfully, "You know,the male Kate Thornton." What a fate for the poor man.

Don't let it go to yer heads, kids. BTW, who's Kate Thornton?

― Johnathan, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hopefully not this person, but one never knows.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The female Stuart Maconie.

― Graham, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

She looks a bit more interesting than the UK equivalent, a blonde puppet that spouts non-opinions to order.

― DG, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

but, in a former life, editor of smash hits generally regarded as having schemed with nigel thingy-whatsit and the record company to have take that on the cover EVERY SINGLE WEEK until they finally hit it big (their first three or four singles having flopped terribly), thus relaunching pop as we know it today, saving the record industry and smash hits in one fell swoop. so not as daft as she looks...

― carsmilesteve, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Steve, that would have been at least two editors before K Thornton.

― suzy, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yes that was fay weldon surely

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, she's only about 23 or something, isn't she? Ed of Smash Hits by the time you're 13 would be impressive.

― DG, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

OK, you've got me, although she was the youngest editor of Smash Hits, when appointed. From http://www.fulcrumtv.com/power99% 20panel.htm

Kate Thornton Kate was born and educated in Cheltenham. After completing a journalism course in London, she joined the Sunday Mirror under Piers Morgan in 1992, and quickly became their youngest columnist. She edited the music magazine Smash Hits from 1996-7, and since then has worked for VH-1 music Channel, Top of the Pops, Straight Up and One in a Million. She currently writes a column for the Sunday Times. Kate lives in London.

which makes her pushing 30 by my calculation...

― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kate Thornton Kate is a top name

― mark s, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I just got the Guardian, and the imaginary words of Maconie do not feature. Unless I missed it.

However, there is a big up for Freakytrigger, and an exert from a piece about Sting (page 22 of the Editor, bottom left)...So, that's good.

― jel, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, we're in there - page 15 of The Editor.

I didn't notice the freakytrigger mention - nice one Tanya.

― Tom, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Opps, missed it! Thanks Tom!...Off to the opticans for me! Trial over, weapons found! (they didn't use any of my ones though :(...)

― jel, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What is written about Freaktrigger?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's just a quote from an I Hate Music bit on Sting. A good joke too and one I'd forgotten.

― Tom, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

B-But have you read the little bit below the headline, and before the quote?

"A pop fan attacks Sting's lyrics"

POP FAN?!?!?!

Blimey, just wait till ms headon reads that....

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Here's what they printed (typed and posted from a moving train, so expect mistakes):

What we read at World History Maconie Style

The years pop TV forgot

Ex Music journalist and pop culture pundit Stuart Maconie is a ubiquitous talking head on TV nostalgia shows. One website asked for imaginary Maconie opinions on crucial years in history for as-yet-unmade I Love... programmes.

I Love 1492: Columbus? A westward route to Asia? Not with America bang in the way mate! What were we thinking of?

I Love 1815: Waterloo? It wasn't onl Wellington who made a song and dance about Bonaparte falling apart!

I Love 1666: Everyone always thought fire was really rubbish, but the thing was it were great. You could roast apples and stuff, and the other boys would look on really jealous like.

I Love 1532: Rabelias? What a Garguantuan pile of toss? What was he thinking?

I Love 1877: He invented the telephone. Well, his name was Bell. At our house we just shouted.

I Love 1945: Enola Gay, eh? What were they thinking? Imagine being the pilot who were flying that. And what if your name were Noel?

I Love 1314: They were cute, they wore skirts, and they blew into bagpipes. But by 1314 the Scottish fad was over, and Edward II axed the show.

From www.ilxor.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl/msg_id=006A6f

(Hey they printed me, the Scottish one)

And Tanya's:

Vented spleen

A pop fan attacks Sting's lyrics

You can imagine Sting during one of his four-hour tantric shags with the missus suddenly sitting bolt upright with revelation. Possibly waking Trudy in the process. "We share the same biology, regardless of ideology" - peachy huh? No Sting, it is nonsense ... Any two words sharing the same suffix will rhyme. And yet the world has not been over-run with couplets such as "Sting features in this anthology, we demand a full apology".

From www.freakytrigger.co.uk

― Graham, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Initially I thought this was the best thing ever, but:
1) None of my posts to that thread were printed, boo hoo,
2) My horrible parents are now all interested in IL*.

― DG, Saturday, 8 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, but it's worse for me, they removed the key phrase "and everyone wanted one". Tossers.

― Graham, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

Steven Colbert just asked Jon Stewart "do you love Hitler?" !!!!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's hope yet, uh, sort of.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

What did Jon Stewart say?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

He was his reasonable self. Colbert kept using Colbertaesthetics to turn everything Stewart said into a defense of his Hitler-love. Later, Colin Ferrell talked about his penis, described his new movie, and suggested that he'd done it with Jon's wife. (Is this a pastime now on the Daily Show? I remember Affleck saying something similar, and it actually freaked Jon out a little bit if I remember right.) Suitably "outrageous" or something. I missed the beginning.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

COLIN FERRELL: WHY WON'T YOU GO OUT WITH ME?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ally wants Britney's sloppy seconds - ew

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, bring me Fred Durst too!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 4 April 2003 02:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steven Colbert just asked Jon Stewart "do you love Hitler?" !!!!!

Ha, I said "are you Momus?" right after that happened. (Then I remembered the little people in the tv cannot hear me.)

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 4 April 2003 03:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

that last statement is heartbreaking

also, i miss tv

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 April 2003 03:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

four years pass...

The Guardian seems to have gone downhill since 2002.

― Aimless, Saturday, 14 July 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

This might've been commented on elsewhere (see paragraph two):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2026533,00.html

― paulhw, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link

How did he arrive at 4,010?

― jaymc, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

x-post -- It seems appropriate.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

must resist zing

― blueski, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Origins of Meh

― jaymc, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost lol

― jaymc, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link

(xpost - @ jaymc) Via google site search I would imagine. We're currently at:

"Results 1 - 10 of about 5,190 from www.ilxor.com for meh. (0.54 seconds)"

― Pashmina, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link

meh; I'm anticipating 2009 Guardian article on post-Noise board culture

― dell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Dude totally looks like Colin Hunt from the Fast Show

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/arts/authorpics/michael_hann.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39073000/jpg/_39073630_hunt_bbc203.jpg

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Is there some law that gingers have to be "wacky"? Btwn fucking Carrot Top and this guy, aye...

― dell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Blame him:

http://www.mad-hatter.de/old/marx/harpo1.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link

he's grey

― DG, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link

He was rad, though. That's like blaming Led Zeppelin for Whitesnake.

― dell, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link

Agreed. Curls are necessary for added wackiness.

― Tom D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

don't think this has been mentioned yet - LBZC lynchpin writes sharp and interesting piece namechecking, among other things, the spinoff Twitter account of the football board's Phil McNulty obsession

literally every single comment underneath is idiotic

― Beth Gibbons & Foreskin Man (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:54 (twelve years ago) link

not all:

Amazorblade
8 June 2011 6:46PM
Stuart Likes The Fall and Ted Chippington. He's a fine man.

― Mark G, Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:06 (twelve years ago) link

in a piece that's reasonable deferential to Lee i wd say that kind of comment was reasonably idiotic

― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link

but hey, i was 14 once, i remember what it's like to be incapable of tolerating any remote disagreement with one of yr idols

― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link

I have no problem with the sentiment, it's just... what does that have to do with anything xp

― Beth Gibbons & Foreskin Man (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link

obviously I was expecting three full pages painstakingly unpacking the nuances of @wolfpupy tweets so you can imagine my disappointment

― Beth Gibbons & Foreskin Man (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link

just hoping Ratko Mladic doesn't turn out to be a fan of The Fall and Ted Chippington.

― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:14 (twelve years ago) link

Imagine he's more of a Frank Sidebottom guy.

― ledge, Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link

nah i think the papier mache head was just while he was on the run from the war crimes tribunal

― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:17 (twelve years ago) link

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/53310000/jpg/_53310988_012134777-1.jpg

Not that keen on the new Coldplay tbh

― NickB, Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:20 (twelve years ago) link

Insufficiently melodic by the looks of it

― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link

um, I think the Amazorblade bloke was replying to the heaps of "Stewart Lee is not funny and the Guardian suck up to him" comments.

Still, though..

― Mark G, Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=103#unread

― an actual guy talking in an actual rhythm (history mayne), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:05 (twelve years ago) link

who is the writer on ilx?

― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:32 (twelve years ago) link

frogsb

― an actual guy talking in an actual rhythm (history mayne), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link

martin jol

― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link

could this mean nult will find us?

― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link

nult has been trolling us for months tbf

― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link

which one of you is secretly nult? a double agent?

― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Thursday, 9 June 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link

it will have been secretly suspected for some time now that the mysterious 'brodie' was more than he will have apoeared

― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link

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