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Anyone else hear 2FM announced Bob Dylan as the Nobel Prizewinner for Literature?

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  • #2
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press
    Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out but when they will I can only guess


  • #3
    trish23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭trish23


    Saw it on Aertel last night as well. Thought maybe Bob had a whole different life I knew nothing about!


  • #4
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Bob has been considered, but the winner is a Swedish poet named Tomas Transtromer.


  • #5
    leakyboots
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭leakyboots


    trish23 wrote: »
    Saw it on Aertel last night as well. Thought maybe Bob had a whole different life I knew nothing about!

    Well he was a possibility of winning, he's written several books - but it's more the fact that the winner, a Swedish poet, had already been announced and 2FM still hadn't their sources right.


  • #6
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    trish23 wrote: »
    Saw it on Aertel last night as well. Thought maybe Bob had a whole different life I knew nothing about!

    Writing songs is not inferior to writing poems, plays or novels. He surely deserves it more than Rudyard Kipling or Dario Fo.


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  • #7
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    goose2005 wrote: »
    Bob has been considered, but the winner is a Swedish poet named Tomas Transtromer.

    I'm so disappointed now, as on first glance I took his name to be Tomas Transformer, and now can't stop wishing it was :(.


  • #8
    trish23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭trish23


    goose2005 wrote: »
    Writing songs is not inferior to writing poems, plays or novels. He surely deserves it more than Rudyard Kipling or Dario Fo.

    No problems with that at all. I've just never heard him considered a writer of literature


  • #9
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    goose2005 wrote: »
    Writing songs is not inferior to writing poems, plays or novels. He surely deserves it more than Rudyard Kipling or Dario Fo.

    Bob only started to write songs because no one gave a crap about his poetry...but when he slapped 3 chords under it people loved it.

    Funny old world.


  • #10
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    goose2005 wrote: »
    Bob has been considered, but the winner is a Swedish poet named Tomas Transtromer.

    Is he a robot in disguise?


  • #11
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Is he a robot in disguise?

    Tomas The Transtromer Engine.


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  • #12
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    leakyboots wrote: »
    When he hasn't.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/oct/06/nobel-prize-literature-live-coverage

    Between this and the Daily Mail falsely reporting a pretty big murder trial, you'd really have to wonder about who gives us our news nowadays.

    You actually trusted the Daily Mail at some point....?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #13
    orourkeda
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I'm so disappointed now, as on first glance I took his name to be Tomas Transformer, and now can't stop wishing it was :(.

    Tomas Trainspotter


  • #14
    leakyboots
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭leakyboots


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    You actually trusted the Daily Mail at some point....?

    Nope, never read it, was just giving an example. I did a semester of sociology of the media years ago in college and even back then, it was eye-opening to see how our news content is pitched at it


  • #15
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    goose2005 wrote: »
    Writing songs is not inferior to writing poems, plays or novels. He surely deserves it more than Rudyard Kipling or Dario Fo.

    Yes it is. A song by the very virtue of it being a song will never contain the same elements of a poem, play or novel. If a song did contain the same elements it would be considered a bad song.


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