Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Laxie]

Laxie said worse to me during the sky game last night. You know, the one you were supposed to be playing?

To be fair...yer a shocking poker player.  J2 os indeed.  But yer bigger than me so I'd never threaten to kick yer arse.  'Know yer limits' and all that.

[tikay]

Just as misplaced arrogance grates so, then genuine arrogance from someone who has earned the right to it is a thing of beauty.

Very few can pull off arrogance successfully.

Very few can afford to work for a huge Broadcasting organisation & be off-message.

Jeremy Paxman can do both.

"Newsnight" used to send out a daily e-Mail about the Show, but decided to cease so doing. It had been unreliable, inaccurate, & frequently late.

Paxman, never one to worry what his paymasters might think, wrote this, & it's a beautiful example of how to insult without descending to juvenile profanities. Oh that there were a few Paxmans in poker, & on poker forums. The podcast line was a beaut, too.

Good morning. And good afternoon. Or possibly, good evening.

Welcome to positively the last Newsnight daily email. The time has come to put this exercise in fatuousness out of its misery.

It gives me no pleasure to say that it should have happened years ago. Actually, I lie. There is more joy in heaven, etc, etc.

The reason for killing it off is pretty straightforward. It’s crap.

Conscientious readers may have noticed that Monday’s email this week was actually promoting a programme which went out last week. A carrier pigeon would have been quicker.

The daily email was dreamed up – like so many other utterly brilliant initiatives (anyone recall the Newsnight podcast, for people who preferred their television without pictures?) – by visionary senior management at the BBC.

For a while we even sent out a morning email, as well, detailing the mental anguish of the editor on duty that day, and soliciting suggestions as to what people would like to see on air that evening. This, too, often arrived after the show had been broadcast.

Like a dodgy plumber skulking away from a flooded bathroom, those responsible are blaming the tools of their trade. In this case, they’re right. The piece of kit (the “gizmo”, to give it its technical name) which sends out the email is completely useless and we can’t afford to fix it.

But fear not. There are other, thrilling ways to make sure you’re not pleasurably surprised when the programme goes on air. The fascinating blog on the Newsnight website is updated every day, and we’re also on Twitter and Facebook.

Alternatively, you could just switch on your television to BBC Two at 10.30pm.

So, farewell daily email. And a Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, Easter and Millennium Eve to all our viewers.

Jeremy Paxman

[tikay]

".....The daily email was dreamed up – like so many other utterly brilliant initiatives (anyone recall the Newsnight podcast, for people who preferred their television without pictures?) – by visionary senior management at the BBC.....".

How good is that? He should be a comedian.

[boldie]

I loved it when they told him he had to do a weather report at the end of Newsnight.

This is the only compilation I could find of it, classic IMO.

[tikay]

I loved it when they told him he had to do a weather report at the end of Newsnight.

This is the only compilation I could find of it, classic IMO.

Superb. I think I may love him.

To be able to get away with that at the BBC, he must be good. Very good.

[tikay]

Does anyone know who this young lady is, & how she hit the Headlines today?

A story you could not make up. Incredible.

[TightEnd]

Sally Bercow, wife of the speaker


Next

[tikay]

Sally Bercow, wife of the speaker


Next

Fail.

Please read the question properly, as any lynchpin should.

What exactly did she do, or even better, say, to, err, arouse such interest?

[TightEnd]

Posed in a bedsheet and talked about the aphrodisiac effect of being in parliament

[Claw75]

Does anyone know who this young lady is, & how she hit the Headlines today?

A story you could not make up. Incredible.

did she try to pretend she knew the offside rule?

[tikay]

As Viagra manufacturer Pfizer closes down it's operation in Sandwich, Kent, every headline managed to use the same word about the workforce - "deflated".

Ugh. 

[tikay]

Posed in a bedsheet and talked about the aphrodisiac effect of being in parliament

Did the wife of The Speaker ever do such a thing before?

How much trouble is she in now?

[Woodsey]

As Viagra manufacturer Pfizer closes down it's operation in Sandwich, Kent, every headline managed to use the same word about the workforce - "deflated".

Ugh. 

Pfizer never really made any money from Viagra due to all of the fake generics that are about.

Also half of Sandwich is employed by Pfizer, that town is stuffed.

[TightEnd]

Posed in a bedsheet and talked about the aphrodisiac effect of being in parliament

Did the wife of The Speaker ever do such a thing before?

How much trouble is she in now?

It's all a storm in a duvet.

I don't like her, and her husband even less, but it's a non-story if you ask me.

[Claw75]

Posed in a bedsheet and talked about the aphrodisiac effect of being in parliament

Did the wife of The Speaker ever do such a thing before?

How much trouble is she in now?

I've not read the story, but why would/should she be in trouble for something like that?