Still Waters No Longer Running, Derp.

efb

Ding dong the witch is gone

Mark Hamill

"Waters Flows Against the Times"

Bannasidhe

Irish Times finally realises it hired the wrong John Waters.

Hotblack Desiato

PopePalpatine wrote: »

1 down, 2 (Conroy and the Mewling Quinn) to go!

You forgot BO'B.

Corkfeen

He's gone to his underwater bunker to avoid the bunker mentality.

Turtwig

MrPudding wrote: »

I am a simple man, therefore will not attempt a clever pun. I am going to go with a simple:

"Relative average quality of writing in the IT increases one billion times! Absolute quality remains pretty much zero."

MrP

FYP:)

freyners

Wat-er way to go?

PopePalpatine

ninja900 wrote: »

You forgot BO'B.

No, I think someone here said Conroy was BO'B's real surname.

Hotblack Desiato

(one quick search later) It's her husband's surname.

You're on dangerous ground if you're suggesting that any married woman who sticks with their birth surname isn't using their 'real' name :eek:

Pherekydes

Waters in the Back (Be WARNED! Google does Nothing!)

Bannasidhe

You may Remove the Googles.

Sulla Felix

ninja900 wrote: »

(one quick search later) It's her husband's surname.

You're on dangerous ground if you're suggesting that any married woman who sticks with their birth surname isn't using their 'real' name :eek:

I always wondered about that legally. I recently found out that some of the women I know kept their own name, but use his in some circumstances (usually social), and some who took his, but keeps their own for other stuff (usually work). Here was me thinking that your name was your name, pick which one you're going to use and stick with it.

Eeden

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Irish Times published John Waters's columns (and still do with Breda O'Brien's) as a deliberate way of "balancing" most of their other content.

Sort of the way they used to do with Kevin Myers. Therefore, they'll probably get another comparable rightwinger in to cover that view. Fair enough, I reckon. You need to know what the other side is about.

The Black Oil

Yeah, John had a column on that point before, iirc.

Piliger

Eeden wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Irish Times published John Waters's columns (and still do with Breda O'Brien's) as a deliberate way of "balancing" most of their other content.

Sort of the way they used to do with Kevin Myers. Therefore, they'll probably get another comparable rightwinger in to cover that view. Fair enough, I reckon. You need to know what the other side is about.

I am not that naive. The IT kept publishing Waters nonsense because it created outrage and controversy and sold papers. Selling papers is the No 1,2 and 3 reasons why newspapers exist.

The Black Oil

Irish Times staff release charity Rolling Stones cover You Can't Always Get What You Want in tribute to Waters

PopePalpatine

The Black Oil wrote: »

Irish Times staff release charity Rolling Stones cover You Can't Always Get What You Want in tribute to Waters

With proceeds going to BeLonG To.

5uspect

"Won't Someone Think of the Children"

Brian Shanahan

Eeden wrote: »

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Irish Times published John Waters's columns (and still do with Breda O'Brien's) as a deliberate way of "balancing" most of their other content.

Sort of the way they used to do with Kevin Myers. Therefore, they'll probably get another comparable rightwinger in to cover that view. Fair enough, I reckon. You need to know what the other side is about.

Considering that the only opinion columnist in the paper to the left of Fine Gale is Fintan Tool, then the only way you could consider publishing the likes of O'Brien and Waters is if you believe that the Times considers socialism and social democracy to be myths invented to frighten impressionable children along the lines of the boogeyman.

Mr_A

You don't don't miss the Waters til the well runs dry

(In this case the well is fine)

Turtwig

robindch wrote: »

...we'll leave the competition open until Monday and the winner will be the post with the most number of thanks...

And the winner is!

lazygal wrote: »

Still Waters No Longer Running Deep.

lazygal

Jernal wrote: »

And the winner is!

Where can I claim my prize? I presume its a packet of biscuits and a pineapple laden pizza?

recedite

The prize is "A Concise Anthology of the Musings of John Waters".
You may pick it up at the Iona Institute; its too heavy to send in the post

PopePalpatine

Jernal wrote: »

And the winner is!

About bloody time. :P

Nodin

Jernal wrote: »

And the winner is!

Or as Waters would put it "Woman Uses Hysterics To Manipulate Opinion".

Corkfeen

Really,hasn't this become illustrative of individualism and how it corrupts us into the ways of materialism? We now expect prizes and have created a new culture of thanks whoring to commandeer topic titles. To the bunker!
Regards,
John

Turtwig

Corkfeen wrote: »

Really,hasn't this become illustrative of individualism and how it corrupts us into the ways of materialism? We now expect prizes and have created a new culture of thanks whoring to commandeer topic titles. To the bunker!
Regards,
John

Banned.
:P

Corkfeen

Jernal wrote: »

Banned.
:P

To quote George Orwell, 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.' Jernal,you have opened my eyes. :eek:

Hotblack Desiato

Corkfeen wrote: »

To quote George Orwell, 'If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.'

That's exactly how I feel like every time I see a BOB/DQ article. But I'm an amoral subhuman so it doesn't matter.

robindch

recedite wrote: »

The prize is "A Concise Anthology of the Musings of John Waters".

Publication run of two - one for himself, and one for a friend (if he has one).