Opinionated Ignorance

[burning dog]

i wonder just what sort of people send robert peston tweets?

Paul Mason?

[handsomefortune]

but so many paul masons to choose from burning dog?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=paul+mason&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=xHT&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=PszHToOfEsKN8gPngrF5&ved=0CEcQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=543

[burning dog]

Looks like one of those has had too much Quantitative Easing!

[vinteuil]

Paul Mason?

... I have long been a fan of Paul Mason on BBC's Newsnight. What I hadn't realised was his musical background -

from his wikipedia entry -

"...He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1981 and trained to be a music teacher at London University Institute of Education, after which he undertook postgraduate research in the music department at Sheffield University until 1984.
Career
Musician
Mason lived in Leicester from 1982–1988, working as a music teacher, special needs teacher,and lecturer in music at Loughborough University. Mason wrote the music for Tony Stephens' With the Sun on Our Backs (1985), a play about the miners' strike produced by Utility Theatre. While Musical Director of the Leicester Phoenix Theatre, co-wrote the children's musical The Third Class Genie (1986) with Robert Leeson... "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mason_(journalist)

[burning dog]

I think Mason is pretty good Vinteuil . Peston always sounds like he's annoyed at being recently woken up.

[Anna]

Does this explain the references, in Thursday's absolutely brilliant episode of 'Rev', to PT's status as one of the best reasons for attending the Greenbelt Festival?

Oh, the second episode of Rev was marvellous I thought! As to those who twittered about Queer Street, I do hope they have subsided into small abject heaps in amazement of their abysmal ignorance of a well known expression. Although, now I look back, my grandmother always used to say I'd land up in Carey Street (which I thought was the origin of the word) Next we know we won't be able to say someone queered the pitch!

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, the second episode of Rev was marvellous I thought! As to those who twittered about Queer Street, I do hope they have subsided into small abject heaps in amazement of their abysmal ignorance of a well known expression. Although, now I look back, my grandmother always used to say I'd land up in Carey Street (which I thought was the origin of the word) Next we know we won't be able to say someone queered the pitch!

Carey Street is the street running parallel to the Strand to the north, coming off Chancery Lane, and behind the Royal Courts of Justice: there's a back door to the RCJ, which well-known litigants and their lawyers use if they want to avoid running the media gauntlet on the front pavement on the Strand (or if their offices / chambers are to the north, as mine used to be). I believe the Bankruptcy Court used to be located on Carey Street, hence your grandma's saying.

I think you are right, that 'Queer' in this context is an old and blackly humorous corruption of 'Carey'.

Lots of barristers' clerks from Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn wandering around there, Anna, and not for reasons of impecuniosity!! There's a super little pub called the Seven Stars which is a fine place for a mid afternoon pint but too full at peak hours You should have a saunter round there next time you're in the Smoke!

[greenilex]

Mother Carey's chickens?

[Anna]

Lots of barristers' clerks from Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn wandering around there, Anna, and not for reasons of impecuniosity!! There's a super little pub called the Seven Stars which is a fine place for a mid afternoon pint but too full at peak hours You should have a saunter round there next time you're in the Smoke!

Oh, I say! The wery mention of barrister's clerks ........ and a whiff of silk, although secondhand, by contagion, it do seem, in being almost in touch with the material itself, it does impart ... something of Jaggers silken kerchief

And what shall Dickens say about Lincoln's Inn? Commenting on the lawyers of Lincoln’s Inn, Mr Boythorn in Bleak House says that they should have their “necks wrung and their skulls arranged in Surgeon’s Hall, for the contemplation of the whole profession, in order that its younger members might understand from actual measurement in early life, how thick skulls may become!’

[amateur51]

but so many paul masons to choose from burning dog?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pau...w=1024&bih=543

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, I say! The wery mention of barrister's clerks ........ and a whiff of silk, although secondhand, by contagion, it do seem, in being almost in touch with the material itself, it does impart ... something of Jaggers silken kerchief

And what shall Dickens say about Lincoln's Inn? Commenting on the lawyers of Lincoln’s Inn, Mr Boythorn in Bleak House says that they should have their “necks wrung and their skulls arranged in Surgeon’s Hall, for the contemplation of the whole profession, in order that its younger members might understand from actual measurement in early life, how thick skulls may become!’

Lincoln's Inn is where most of the Chancery chambers are i.e. endless abstruse matters to do with wills, estates, trusts... c.f. Bleak House

Happily I rarely have to set foot there

[greenilex]

I was a Ward in Chancery....

[Nick Armstrong]

I was a Ward in Chancery....

My heartfelt hope is that your name is not Jarndyce...

[gurnemanz]

It reminds me a little of that American government official who was forced to resign a while ago for using the word "niggardly". Some people thought it was racial slur.

[Nick Armstrong]

It reminds me a little of that American government official who was forced to resign a while ago for using the word "niggardly". Some people thought it was racial slur.