back from the big smoke

[sammywol]

Well has been a challenging week. Mr Wol came down with the dreaded lurgy last week and I was coughing like an end-stage emphysema patient and as Mr Wol got steadily worse we were staring down the barrel of a trip to Dublin for a Dara O'Briain gig and an IKEA marathon with no prospect of being fit enough to face either. In the end we scattered to

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[curiouswombat]

I'm really glad that you got to Dara O'Briain - but it is a pity poor Mr Wol was too poorly - and a pity the drunken idiots were beside you - or there at all, for that matter...

I've never been to IKEA...

Hmm - could Jeremy Hardy possibly have been talking about one of the British Royal family?

[sammywol]

one of the mouthier ones yes :)

And yes, a thousand times worth ging to but not, and especially not standing, for someone in Mr Wol's condition.

[badgersandjam]

Prince Philip was my kneejerk reaction.

[sammywol]

Nah. He's Greek - well Greco-German.

[a_d_medievalist]

That was one of the funniest News Quizzes I've heard in ages. Sending virtual chicken soup and get well soon wishes!

[sammywol]

Thanks for soup. My virtual appetite is fine and very grateful. My RL one has some catching up to do.

And yes it was a good ep. Often they can be a bit too glib but In love Jeremy Hardy. His humour could dry up the Pacific and that helps.

[alaimacerc]

What a vile slur! He's the idiot spawn of incestuous German robber Prince-Electors, if you please! Or of Top Gear supposedly unrecognised "well-spoken man", of course. I'd equally well describe Prince Flip, actually: I couldn't tell you off the top of my head which of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg-Saxe-Coburg-Gothas are the most German, or indeed the most "repeatedly descended" from Queen Vic. And the Danish royal family are basically just another lot of slightly northerly Germans, anyhoo

[sammywol]

Please forward your notes to the BBC comments section - which is always good for a laugh.

And yes, he talks about the function of the Vicar's St gigs in his book, how he does them on the weekends between playing all over the UK on weekdays. And I think he sneaks into Cork under cover of night and doesn't tell anyone because he has allegedly played here a few time sin the last four years and I would have killed for tickets if I had heard a whisper about it.

[alaimacerc]

One could argue either that "baron" was figurative (actually, in context it rather clearly was), and/or that by downwards closure, being a Kurfuerst. implies also being a Freiherr. Besides, I don't know that the News Quiz operates a QI-style "points back" scheme as such...

Lot of three-day weekends he has there. And January- and February-long ones, come to that! Googling, it appears he's sneaking into Cork... tomorrow, for a four-day weekend at the Opera House -- naturally all sold-out. Oops, was asleep at the switch for that one.

[sammywol]

Arse! Bollox! Fuck! And be damned to our friend of his and ours in Dublin who swore she would get us tickets for the next Cork gig!