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Fine by me – they are invited on the strict understanding that they delight me with their waxing lyrical whilst I sit back or pour the wine.
You would, of course, be expected to pay for the wine – waxing lyrical to the great unwashed is not a cheap exercise.
Looks like erudition and witty repartit are still grounds for the death penalty on the IOM, then
Surely the death penalty is a little extreme, although a good thrashing can but help remind those who transgress the rules not to do so again. If that’s not to your liking, however, there’s always a boat in the morning that will transport your racist comments elsewhere!
I have to say his articles are excellent.
I recall reading his article on Orpen Wide (succesful hurdler and good novice chaser) that he owned but sold before it went hurdling because it was poor on the flat and then became a revelation over hurdles.Very funny and witty
Pure class.
What he is like in real life I do not know but writing for the Post he is brilliant.
there’s always a boat in the morning that will transport your racist comments elsewhere!
Racist pshaw – they were still sentencing people to death on the IOM until 1993 (albeit commuted to life imprisonment subsequently), the thick end of three decades after the concept was abolished on the mainland.
Be assured that I associate the island with far more than this particular statute, though. Far more. I mean, blimey, it gave the world Ken Hogg.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
they were still sentencing people to death on the IOM until 1993 (albeit commuted to life imprisonment subsequently), the thick end of three decades after the concept was abolished on the mainland.
You have me all of a quandary!
On the one hand, I’d say shhh – keep it quiet, the last thing I’d want is an island full of Tebitts and Redwoods, although the attempts of the latter to sing the national anthem in Manx Gaelic would be a treat.
On the other, however, shout it loud and proud – the scallys do their level best on the drugs front but the gun culture struggles, innit.
the last thing I’d want is an island full of Tebitts and Redwoods, although the attempts of the latter to sing the national anthem in Manx Gaelic would be a treat.
PMSL!!!!
There’s something I’d pay to witness!
(with a piece of Gorgonzola wedged in each ear, natch).
Rest assured that Sir Clem’s 60 second bursts on childhood terrors, tautology and Oscar Wilde on Radio 4 this evening were really rather good, btw.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I’d love to agree with my learned friend graysonscolumn if only because he’s so rarely wrong, but I’m afraid Sir Clem in real life is terribly difficult to like. Stick to admiring his with in print instead sir.
Whats "terribly difficult" to like about him Rory? Could you expand on that please?
Met him a couple of times and found him to be sour and cantankerous. Various racehorse trainers would back me up on that. It’s disappointing as he comes across in his writing as a witty raconteur who doesn’t take himself too seriously, but not so in the flesh alas.
Would have enjoyed being a fly on the wall at the parting of the waves of him and Mark Johnston when he switched Eau Good to Michael Chapman.
I had dealings with him once when he rang up to complain about Stephen Donohue dropping his hands on Orpen Wide one day at Southwell. Why he rang Timeform I have no idea, and he couldn’t had read the race more wrongly in any case. Donohue had been scrubbing away at the horse for most of the way and merely stopped hitting the horse in the last 100yds, once clear his horse had no chance of winning and was weakening to have little chance of being placed. His complaint was one of the worst pieces of pocket talking I’ve come across.
Since the name of Duncan McCain as come up during the course of this thread, I have to say that personally speaking, I have every reason to be grateful to the often maligned McCain senior. Ever since a particualr evening meeting at Uttoxexter, more than 25 years ago, when he put me off backing a then handicap hurdler of his by the name of Pewter Spear.
“Ground’s too hard, cock, keep your money in your pocketâ€
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