melvyn bragg etc.

Actually, I have always liked Melvin Bragg (takes a swig of Jack Daniels and continues...). He's bright, calm and quite a talented writer. It's not his fault that he's has a rather silly nasal sing-song voice and hair that grows more bouffant with each passing day. I like him. So there. Top Gear, though Fishy? PANTS.

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHO THE F**K THE BRAGG BLOKE IS??? (well, I did ask nicely the first time...)

Hi Andrea, Don't ask!!! He's not worth the sentence to explain him. You ain't missing anything. Trust me. AJ

andrea, melvyn bragg fancies himself as a bit of a thespian. among other things he used to present a programme in the uk called something like Film Review, where he would say that every film that anybody had ever heard of is rubbish. he'd then bang on about a wonderful film that almost noboby could go and see because it was being shown only at one cinema in london. this would typically be a subtitled affair about an estonian farmer who had lost a goat. [however there is no truth in the rumour that he is behind the attacks on america as revenge for them voting Porky's the funniest film ever made.]

Did the farmer find the goat? Answers in Estonian, please.

melvyn didn't give too much of the story away i'm afraid, eddie. he was a bugger like that. seem to remember something about the search for the goat being a universal metaphor, if that helps...but i could be wrong...

Sounds like a truly fascinating character... Thanks for lettting me know - I'll be sure to give him a wide berth.

The goat is a symbol of our lost innocence and the farmer is the human will to seek knowledge. See we have lost the knowledge when we lost our innocence. If we regain our innnocence we regain our knowledge. The farmer never finds the goat because innocence cannot be regained. Simple really, oh the film is called "The farmers missing wife" well that's a loose translation. By the way my hair is a personal fashion statement! i am of course fashoinably in style. I also deplore the fact that my thesbian lifestyle is being ridiculed in this way. (ahh itchy nads....cough) ah erm....well......goodbye!

er... thanks for clearing that up for us, Melv. May I suggest Savlon for the nads? Failing that, axle grease.

it might have been 'The South Bank Show' robert. I think i have the letters in the right order.

Fish You are right about the head of course. If you opened the lid you would find the piano woud be badly out of tune. Ralph

Bragg? Bragg? Name vaguely rings a bell... Oh dear, not quite the right time to re-patriate...

How many books have you had published...who's out of tune nothing like being smug!!!!

Roger Poppit I don't think you have caught the mood of the thread. Go and have a lie down and pehaps some Camomile tea. Ralph

Fishwife, Are you totally obsessed with the Braggs of this world? Do you know that 'Melvyn Bragg' is Glasgow rhyming slang for xexyool intacoors? (a bit of censor-dodging there). A 'Billy Bragg' means 'body of a builder with the soul of a poet', though I can't quite remember where that definition came from.... Me, I've got the body of a poet (Ginsberg) with the soul of a builder (Bob, the).

Can't stand the man myself. Too clever. Too intellectual. Just too everything. AJ

funny you should mention it eddie ... i had not realised until now my peculiar bragg obsession ... and are they related? (mel and bill that is) and speaking of mels ... i rather fancy mel gibson in some lights ... but not mel whatisname from that double act with the other bloke ...

p.s. my other obsession also seems to be watching Top Gear ... don't like that new fiat at all ...

Fiat: Fix It Again, Tony. (the old ones are the best, eh?)

er, maybe not...