Greatest hits
In good, end-of-year tradition, we're revisiting some of our favourite iPM stories and ideas. We'll ask, with great journalistic style and panache, 'so, what happened next?'
Stories on our minds -
Is Coca-cola still it?
One campaigner wants to persuade Coke to use their distribution channels to get rehydration salts to the people who need them.
Gaming 'addiction'
Does gaming obsession present our culture with problems, or frankly, is anything better that an TV addiction?
'Today I am going to kill something. Anything.'
The unprecendented decision by the qualifications body (England and Wales), AQA, to
remove a poem from the syllabus after an individual complaint.
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Dear, Dear David.
He, of course had one of the greatest "hits" ever with a comment along the lines: "...he's opening his legs and showing his class..."
And what happened next..?
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Ah yes, I remember it well...
And, if I remember rightly, "Private Eye" ran a column for quite some time titled "Colemanballs".
Which, I think, sums things-up quite nicely.
Anyhow, talking of "Private Eye", we could move on to "Carter Ruck". But, this is a family show.
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Piper@04
Your "Carter Ruck" comment's been gnawing at me for hours. But, now I see...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1450022/Peter-Carter-Ruck.html
"Yet he was perhaps best known for is regular run-ins with Private Eye. "I'd feel neglected if a few weeks went by without a letter from Carter-Ruck," the magazine's editor Ian Hislop once said. Private Eye would retaliate to his writs by misspelling his last name. "It is a very, very amusing magazine," Carter-Ruck admitted. "But they lack any sort of sensitivity and can sometimes be very hurtful.
In 1989 Carter-Ruck publicly attacked the £600,000 damages awarded to Sonia Sutcliffe against the magazine and was invited to an Eye lunch, an occasion he attended with some trepidation. Not long afterwards, he asked if, in the new spirit of friendship, they would now stop printing the first letter of Ruck as an F.
Their response, not unpredictably, was to print the first letter of Carter as an F as well.
"I think my relationship with Private Eve is now definitely hate," he said later."
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or maybe and, preferably, Piper@02..!
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