Pseuds Corner

Snickers Man

The fine English satirical paper Private Eye publishes, or used to I haven't read it for years, a regular column called Pseuds Corner where it holds up to public scrutiny (ie ridicule) hopelessly long-winded and/or pretentious statements made in the media.

Common targets are those who use flowery prose to present as great intellectual topics of debate the most undeserving and mundane issues of the day.

Could we find room for such a regular column here?

To kick things off, let me suggest the opening paragraph of John Waters' column in today's Irish Times.

"Fianna Fail is the black swan of our political ballet. It is where the darkness becomes visible, the entity on to which we project all our selfish, shadow energies and desires – our cynicism and self-interest, but also our sneakier hopes of redemption and salvation by some painless intervention of forces which, until things begin to go wrong, we are never disposed to question too closely."


Ya wha'?

outandabout

Great idea Snickers.

Even better start a separate forum on the Board. it could cover everthing from arts to politics to sport.

bogmanfan

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
That is unbelievable.

Snickers Man wrote: »

"Fianna Fail is the black swan of our political ballet. It is where the darkness becomes visible, the entity on to which we project all our selfish, shadow energies and desires – our cynicism and self-interest, but also our sneakier hopes of redemption and salvation by some painless intervention of forces which, until things begin to go wrong, we are never disposed to question too closely."

jdivision

The Phoenix do it too - The Hot Air Brigade from memory. Usually quotes from the Sindo as you can imagine

Dan Dare

Private Eye still features Pseud's Corner, the current issue has a quote about Lady Gaga and another about Boney M (pretentious nonsense of course).

uvox

Hot Air Brigade in Phoenix used to pay a few quid for submissions. Try those guys.