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Shame not Dusty Bin Laden's Jamie's One Minute Meals sub. But I guess his contact details are long out of date.
Good luck to BJ in the real world!
Delighted to be in it. I might be sacked so best to stick to this name. Not that I ever write on NB in work time...
Real names versus NB handles was discussed. For consistency (we don't know many of the 'real names' anyway) it was decided to only use the NB handles. That goes for the editors as well, btw.
JOF gets a real name check because a) he has subs reproduced where he used his real name and b) he has written the forward. In line with the original Ceefax book the actual articles are not attributed but all contributors are name checked at the end of the book
If anyone wants I can set up a blog page that links NB handles to real names for those who want it, not sure if that's any help.
Delight at seeing my name on 'chosen' list was allayed by seeing the quality control criterion was 'everyone who gave permission.' Moved to do some archive study & though I started 8 years ago, I didn't post for 4 years. A guestimate for my strike rate is about 0.02%, which may not be an all-time record for NB would be interested if anyone could claim a lower one. So I claim marks for persistence rather than hilarity & will have to order a copy to see which piece was chosen.
Many thanks for all concerned and I hope the charities do well.
Boo!
I'm still alive and kicking.
I stupidly concentrated on the business this year (so consequently have a fair sized corporation tax bill looming for Boris to spaff away.)
Thankyou for finding me (Wren) but pretty sure I haven't contributed anything of note to the writers room, certainly nothing worth publishing.
The private message thingie is linked to a very old and non-functioning email account so I'm afraid they were missed.
I have been picking poking my nose around the door now and then to make sure you are behaving but, despite several urges to tell Titus to fuck off, have resisted joining in as it tends to distract me for too long, especially given the clusterfuck omnishambles in Westminster.
Equally my year long, on-line French course has faded to a distant memory so I'm back to being mono-lingual. Can't get to France anyway at the moment.
We now, at last, have the Intertubes connected to the house for the first time so I guess I could join in from home but usually have a few bottles of urgent homework to do which takes precedent.
Keep up the good work and be nice to each other.
BJ x
Well, you had more NiBs than I did:
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/author/beau-jolly
And it's reassuring to know that you'll be paying one of Boris' friends to produce PPE
I'll drop in again sometime. Or you could visit Warrington for a last chance to see the Persil factory before they use a wrecking ball on it
Once this little virus has gone, obvs
B-J! Ah-ha, there you are!
Welcome back.
I could have done with your help a few weeks ago. I posted a sub about Chris Grayling's incompetence and his appointment to a 6-figure salary job advising a ports operator.
Very cleverly I made a reference to him knowing nothing about ports. But I punned it as ports=the wine, not ports=the harbours and docks.
Needless to say nobody understood it. Plebs.
Which is why I called out for help from B-J wherever you were.
Do stick around - your input was missed.
Not wanting to be an armchair critic - I'm sitting on a bench - but why "15 years of typos"? Sounds more like a collection of 'bloopers' than what it is?
So what would I call it then? Er...
From Teletubbies to Trump: 15 years of newsbiscuit
Accept All Cookies: 15 etc...
OK. It's not that easy. And too late to change I'm sure. Just getting that off my chest!
This is a nice surprise! Hello to anyone/everyone from back in the day and well done for those of you that still managed to keep on being very funny. The NB front page has been top quality of late so I cant grumble that things were better in my day. I have no idea what my contribution will be but secretly I'm hoping it was my suggestion that the NB site should start carrying adverts.
If anyone fancies a celebratory pint in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese then - well - we can't.
Cheers!
In case you haven't noticed, it's now out. Everyone should have an email about it.
BTW, could I have the Kindle version sent to my laptop? I have an e-reader somewhere, but it's not a Kindle and I'd have to convert the book to some other format before I could read it that way.
Fantastic that it's out, well done to the gang of 6 (carefully within govt guidelines there) - that's a huge effort to compile
I didn't get an email (sob!) - mistake, or just not funny ?
The Amazon blurb for the book ironically contains a typo for one of the charities:
arts-ememgency.org which needs fixing PDQ
I have to say, I'm with Sir Lupus about the title: doesn't quite hit the mark for me
I might have suggested "15 years of making stuff up", but that could have been mistaken for the memoirs of a sulky American ex-President
Well, that's the 2nd book published in the last 2 weeks with my help
Might depend on your laptop, Sydalg. Just downloaded the Kindle App onto my Android Chromebook and it's working OK - reading the NB@15 right now and loving it.
There's an option to download a taster (for an hour*, I think) so you can see that it works OK on your setup before you buy.
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*First eBook I've ever bought, downloaded, or even looked at. Ever. Seems fitting that it is the creakingly ancient NewsBiscuit writing house that has dragged me into the late 20th Century. The hour thing I referred to above might have been the estimated time to read to the end. I'm new to this malarkey and fumbling as I go. It's blimmin' brilliant though, and will be buying several proper book copies when I eventually return to the UK.
Could I suggest that we enable 'Look Inside'?
I don't think we can disable it, but I'll check. It can take up to 72 hours for full functionality to come on line so hopefully it will be there today.
Syd - there are unofficial Kindle converters but really Amazon make downloadable apps for all the mainstream OS - not sure about linux though.
Would be nice, in a couple of days, to know how may copies have gone
I'll try to provide that in a week or so. EBook purchases are reported real time but there's a lag on the paperback purchases. None are showing right now and I bought my copy nearly 24 hours ago.
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