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Questions and Answers 3rd Nov 08
- 10:53 PM Simon McGarr - Just a little half hearted about this evening’s liveblogging. The panel features Dr. Aldous from UCD’s history dept. I feel badly towards Richard Aldous, as he was on staff in UCD when I was an undergraduate and now looks younger than me.
- 10:55 PM Simon McGarr - The first question is a follow on from the Bertie documentary. Is he Ireland’s luckiest politician?
- 10:55 PM Simon McGarr - From an FFer.
- 10:56 PM Suzy Byrne - that harry mcgee?
- 10:57 PM Simon McGarr - Richard Curran, Editor of the Sunday Business Post is a new figure to me. He appears to have an unusually high head.
- 10:57 PM Simon McGarr - Harry Magee has given us his opinion on Bertie’s opacity.
- 10:58 PM Simon McGarr - This topic is wearing on me.
- 10:58 PM Alexia Golez - The old graveside anecdote thrown in for good measure
- 10:59 PM Alexia Golez - Open shirted FGer… Very casual
- 11:00 PM Simon McGarr - Bertie is an enigma. I don’t see how any documentary could hope to try to crack him open now.
- 11:00 PM Suzy Byrne - Tomorrow night there is a bit of history in the making over the pond, the country is in a dire state financially and here’s Q&A talking about anorak man.
- 11:01 PM Simon McGarr - I see the government has continued its policy of sending out anonymous backbench cyphers, for fear that we may actually find a minister to hold responsible for their decisions.
- 11:02 PM Alexia Golez - Ooo… Big Q
- 11:02 PM Simon McGarr - Hooray, a new question! Boo! It’s about Enda Kenny.
- 11:04 PM Alexia Golez - I wonder what kind of conditioner Olwym Enright uses.. All those teased tresses look in fine
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- 11:05 PM Simon McGarr - Olywn Enright has just advanced the theory that the government has lost 2 TDs in a month and that therefore ‘if this trend continues’ the government will have lost its majority by next year.
- 11:05 PM Simon McGarr - I am reminded of Disco Stu in the Simpsons.
- 11:08 PM Simon McGarr - FFer is a marvellous bundle of cliches. We’ve had people on the doorsteps and the need not to govern by opinion polls.
- 11:09 PM Alexia Golez - My God… zzz
- 11:10 PM Simon McGarr - Oh dear. FFer knows he’s just stepped in a potentially deep hole. He’s just told us that that there was clear knowledge of a construction crash coming on the part of the government. They just didn’t mention it at the last election.
- 11:10 PM Alexia Golez - I see so many candidates for Extreme Makeovers in the audience
- 11:10 PM Simon McGarr - I said I was feeling half-hearted at the start. I’m not sure what fraction is small enough to reflect how I feel now.
- 11:11 PM Suzy Byrne - Oh look a Green councilor beside a FFer…
- 11:11 PM Alexia Golez - “Podge and Rodge have a better chance than Enda Kenny”
- 11:11 PM Simon McGarr - FFer in the audience says she thinks the nation has the best brains in charge.
- 11:11 PM Simon McGarr - We are doomed.
- 11:11 PM Suzy Byrne - This is a hackathon of an audience.
- 11:14 PM Alexia Golez - Harry is praying for a juicy topic
- 11:14 PM Simon McGarr - Dr. Aldous back again on my screen, taunting me with his youth. How does he do it?
- 11:14 PM Simon McGarr - OK, that’s it. They’ve just pulled out a question on Brand/Ross in the UK. This programme is offically a dud.
- 11:15 PM Suzy Byrne - Can I go wash the dishes now without be slagged for abandoning ship?
- 11:15 PM Simon McGarr - Bear in mind, there is something of an interesting event planned for the US this week.
- 11:15 PM Alexia Golez - Go Suzy
- 11:16 PM Alexia Golez - Sorry I bullied ye into this!
- 11:16 PM Alexia Golez - Feckers!
- 11:17 PM Simon McGarr - Oh, please Suzy. We all need to call this one a dead end. We’ve just had the Editor of the Sunday Business Post give his opinion on what constitutes good comedy.
- 11:17 PM Suzy Byrne - lol – I know that tomorrow nights pickings will be oh so much richer – and I bagged some company on the sofa too as herself will be sleeping!
- 11:17 PM Simon McGarr - Pulling the plug here too. Reader, I had to do it.
- 11:18 PM Suzy Byrne - Ok Cul de Sac it is!
- 11:18 PM Alexia Golez - Well, I can’t find the remote. I’ll suffer through.
- 11:18 PM Simon McGarr - Bowman comments on Aldous’ youth. He’s burning up inside too. I can tell.
- 11:19 PM Alexia Golez - The young have wide wrists.. just look at his!
- 11:22 PM Alexia Golez - Oh, FFS.. Dougal press the big red button
- 11:22 PM Simon McGarr -
- 11:23 PM Simon McGarr - See!
- 11:24 PM Alexia Golez - He buys the suits big so he can grow into them, eh?
- 11:24 PM Simon McGarr - FFer not familiar with Johnathan Ross. He wishes we had more responsible comedians.
- 11:24 PM Simon McGarr - Much good that will do him, seeing as he doesn’t seem to age.
- 11:25 PM Alexia Golez - Ads.. yay
- 11:25 PM Simon McGarr - Holy GOD! There’s still a Part Two to get through!
- 11:26 PM Simon McGarr - Guinness.
- 11:27 PM Simon McGarr - An ad for electric toothbrushes. With a strangly threatening voiceover. Suggests that ownership of same may confer superior powers on those that wield them.
- 11:28 PM Alexia Golez - I may have to turn to beer to get through Pt 2
- 11:29 PM Suzy Byrne - What about the people at home? What about the good decent folk without liveblog duties to keep them going?
- 11:30 PM Simon McGarr - Think of the… well, not the children. The 50+ somethings.
- 11:30 PM Alexia Golez - brb
- 11:31 PM Simon McGarr - Help! I’ve been left with the SBP’s editor’s views on the US election. And there is nobody here to keep me alive.
- 11:32 PM Alexia Golez - back
- 11:32 PM Simon McGarr - Harry McGee has the decency to give us a useful liveblog tip- Virgina declares at 4am tomorrow.
- 11:33 PM Alexia Golez - Harry reminds me of a priest addressing his lil lambs..
- 11:33 PM Suzy Byrne - That’s not what the Sunday Tribune said …declares or voting ends?
- 11:33 PM Suzy Byrne - What’s the black tie in aid of?
- 11:34 PM Simon McGarr - Recession chic. Note the increasingly skinny ties and narrow lapels amongst the chattering classes.
- 11:35 PM Alexia Golez - If Bowman’s hair was a cloud, what kind of fluffy massed object| would it be.. ?
- 11:35 PM Simon McGarr - David McWilliams instantly switched to them as soon as the markets fell. Threw all his wide ties to the back of the cupboard as Lehman Bros collapsed.
- 11:36 PM Suzy Byrne - Poll closing time list in Tribune
- 11:36 PM Simon McGarr - American on the Telly in the audience!
- 11:37 PM Suzy Byrne - …saying rubbish stuff about woman in whitehouse..
- 11:37 PM Simon McGarr - She’s explaining the meaning of the Executive Branch
- 11:37 PM Simon McGarr - To the little people.
- 11:37 PM Suzy Byrne - disabled person alert…
- 11:38 PM Suzy Byrne - Irish student of American politics gets a chance to revise for exams
- 11:39 PM Alexia Golez - Olwyn does kaboose hands better than anyone else here tonight
- 11:39 PM Simon McGarr - Sigh. Student fears lack of checks and balances. Has been haunted by this terrible spectre ever since he read about it on the web this afternoon.
- 11:39 PM Alexia Golez - Made it !
- 11:40 PM Simon McGarr - That’s it folks. Let’s drag the carcass of this donkey out the door and throw it on the bonfire.
- 11:40 PM Suzy Byrne - oh no john bowman tomorrow too.. I bags CNN!!
- 11:40 PM Alexia Golez - Shitey.. I’d watch Fox but SmellTL don’t offer it !
- 11:41 PM Simon McGarr - Quick, switch to the US Election Liveblog to carry on this important discussion.
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