Goodbye Adrian Anthony, and God bless you

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sir C

Colonel Now wasn't Terry Wogan, I concur.

Dear old Terry goes into the bin with Prince and Bowie. I admired them greatly for their previous work, but I was never going to be touched by anything new they did.

Adrian Anthony was still churning it out every week. :-(

�rse and balls, the restaurant review was the first thing I read in the ST! For years and years.

---

I've always taken The Telegraph, as you know, so his work largely passed me by. What interest The Times held for me disappeared when it went tabloid.

I hadn't watched or listened to anything Wogan had done for yonks, but as I think I explained before, I find it extremely jarring every time I recall he's not still knocking about. Odd, really.

Prince and Bowie were chaps whose worked I've enjoyed (loved in the case of Prince), but who hadn't done anything I cared about for ages, so their deaths were really only of passing interest.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Burney

I've always taken The Telegraph, as you know, so his work largely passed me by. What interest The Times held for me disappeared when it went tabloid.

---

Jesus wept - are you all right there grandad. Do you still struggle with wireless with pictures suddenly going color?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Jesus wept - are you all right there grandad. Do you still struggle with wireless with pictures suddenly going color?

---

Proper newspapers are broadsheet, la. That's just a FACT.
Anyway, The Times had been a bit vulgar and infra dig ever since Murdoch bought it. The switch to tabloid was just the final nail in the coffin.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Burney

Proper newspapers are broadsheet, la. That's just a FACT.
Anyway, The Times had been a bit vulgar and infra dig ever since Murdoch bought it. The switch to tabloid was just the final nail in the coffin.

---

What does it matter if you're reading them on your iPad? The Times iPad app is miles better than the Tele's, which can only be described as 'unbelievably amateurish'.

I mean, you are reading the papers on an electronic device, aren't you Burney? You aren't *actually* still buying them in paper form, are you?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by World's End Stella

I adored your writing, you were part of my life and I shall miss you until I draw my last breath.

Goodbye AA, you will be missed. :-(

---

Oh, no. The Winnie the Pooh chap :-(

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Burney

I've always taken The Telegraph, as you know, so his work largely passed me by. What interest The Times held for me disappeared when it went tabloid.

I hadn't watched or listened to anything Wogan had done for yonks, but as I think I explained before, I find it extremely jarring every time I recall he's not still knocking about. Odd, really.

Prince and Bowie were chaps whose worked I've enjoyed (loved in the case of Prince), but who hadn't done anything I cared about for ages, so their deaths were really only of passing interest.

---

The Telegraph is as barking mad as The Guardian, though.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sir C

The Telegraph is as barking mad as The Guardian, though.

---

And they're both as barking as Der Hund magazine.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Burney

Proper newspapers are broadsheet, la. That's just a FACT.
Anyway, The Times had been a bit vulgar and infra dig ever since Murdoch bought it. The switch to tabloid was just the final nail in the coffin.

---

I pretty much read it cover these days - I think it's by far the best, actually offers some balance (mainly because Murdoch interferes less with it than the ST or Sun) and has Mike Atherton :cloud9:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sir C

Of all the celebrity deaths in 2016, this is the only one to really touch me as I will miss his work terribly.

Other than the baboon bothering, obvs. Mind you, baboons are nasty aggressive búggers, and baboon shÃ*t is the worst thing to get on your shoe.

I am full of admiration for his insistence that his Savile Row suits were all lined with scarves from Hermes. Now that is style.

I wonder if The Wolseley will set up his usual table the way they did for Lucien Freud?

---

I have no idea what baboon **** is like on the shoe, and don't agre with hunting unless you munch it, but I'm afraid Gill's case:
1. I'm not gonna let my morals deny me his writing. (Other examples of such hypocrisy include Cat Stevens and the Rushdie Fatwa. Like his music too much to stop listening.)
2. Gill's bright as fück. If his mind can justify it to himself, then fine.

But totally agree with Celeb deaths. Even Bowie, I only listened to stoned at uni before I got into raving.

Now I don't have his telly review to turn to 1st thing on a Sunday and the Restaurant one after I've read the non-fiction book reviews.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sir C

Colonel Now wasn't Terry Wogan, I concur.

Dear old Terry goes into the bin with Prince and Bowie. I admired them greatly for their previous work, but I was never going to be touched by anything new they did.

Adrian Anthony was still churning it out every week. :-(

�rse and balls, the restaurant review was the first thing I read in the ST! For years and years.

---

Oh. You've made the point for me.

Exactly. I haven't listened to a Bowie song later than Ashes to Ashes (c.1980/1?) when AA Gill was my first reading every Sunday. Huge difference.