http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 17:15:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-93001 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:24:41 +0000 John Ffitch-Rucker 93001@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Does this mean Bryson didn’t capture an enigma machine from a German submarine? How disappointing. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92998 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:14:04 +0000 Des Custard 92998@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It dived on its first outing and never resurfaced, but I knew roughly where to look. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92994 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:11:29 +0000 Clarky 92994@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You keep your subs for 3 years? How organised! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92993 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:10:20 +0000 Des Custard 92993@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Then in the 70s they made the old sub smaller and came up with the sub-compact.</p> <p>So I dimly remember. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92986 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:07:35 +0000 dvo4fun 92986@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ford used to do that in the 1950s. </p> <p>So I'm told </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92984 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:05:23 +0000 Des Custard 92984@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks people. I have to admit that I stole it, but only from myself. In true hack spirit I dusted off a 3 year old sub and grafted on a new front end to make it topical. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92955 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:22:17 +0000 dvo4fun 92955@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thank you for illuminating this issue, but you may find these stars help also. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92949 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:48:10 +0000 Drylaw 92949@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hear Hear! Time for a Bryson backlash. Who does he think he is? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92943 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:19:48 +0000 Stan Laurel 92943@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice work, Des. That is, if it is your own work .... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92911 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:45:16 +0000 Clarky 92911@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This Waitrose thing - are they sponsoring subs? Nice piece Mr C. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92904 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:15:11 +0000 Golgo13 92904@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it </p> <p>...and I like a bit of hairy pie myself, now and again, so I can empathise with Rory McGrath. </p> <p>I think the biggest mistake you can make with Bryson books is to read two of them close together. One is fun, but you just get sick of his smuggery. </p> <p>Like when you're about halfway through your second tube of Pringles and you realise you should have stopped at one tube. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=32631#post-92876 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:12:52 +0000 Des Custard 92876@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Following new doubts raised by the film 'Monotonous', an account of the life of Bill Bryson, a leading scholar has entered the fray with his views on the true authorship of Bill Bryson’s book 'Shakespeare', which has sold millions and has been translated into 134 languages.</p> <p>Professor AN Milton said it was simply inconceivable that a self-taught small-town American from Des Moines, Iowa, whose father used to take the family on holiday in a blue Rambler station wagon, could have sufficient appreciation of the society in which Shakespeare moved, or of the subtleties and nuances of his work, to be able to write such a convincing narrative. </p> <p>'I’ve nothing against Bryson,' he said, 'and I’m quite willing to believe he could pen the odd travel piece or organise a litter campaign, but beyond that he is not the man that he would gladly make show to the world he is. The true author has to be another.' </p> <p>First on the list of possibles is Clive Anderson, who as a barrister and television personality has demonstrated his complete ease with the English language. He shares Shakespeare’s love of the double entendre, and is known to be unable to say ‘Coriolanus’ without smirking. 'You can see him aching to show the world he’s not just a clever twit,' said Milton, 'and writing this book would provide a release for some of that suppressed talent, even if he were contractually unable to take the credit.'</p> <p>Another strong contender is Australian writer and broadcaster Clive James, whose admiration for Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter is unsurpassed. Known for his witty and complex writing, Clive made the move in mid-career from television critic to presenter, where he found the only limit to the length of his sentences was the requirement to breathe occasionally.</p> <p>But the favourite, despite not being called Clive, is hairy pie eating Rory McGrath, with his mastery of refined and vulgar English in all its forms from Geoffrey Chaucer to Paddy McGuinness. Milton said McGrath had it all: the education, the showmanship, the common touch, and above all a sufficiently convincing resemblance to Bryson to be able to fool the critics.</p> <p>Bryson himself was unavailable for comment, but his personal assistant said he was having a typically Shakespearian day: shopping at Waitrose, going to the library, having tea with the vicar and riding his bicycle to the red pillar box to post a letter to the Times. </p>