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InternationalObserver

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:04:36 +1200

Sorry, I wasn't intending this to become a defamatory guessing game. So I've removed any names people have suggested in that vein (pun intended).

So I get points for not mentioning names in my previous post? There's one poster who made me LOL because s/he tossed in a name that…

Shaz

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:47:45 +1200

No need to thank me. Just don't sue

andrew llewellyn

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:44:54 +1200

I'M HOPING i DO NOW! Ooh... caps... bTW – no-one has yet explained the "hooch".

(Hatstand comment sorry).

Hadyn Green

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:43:03 +1200

You get google hits for "Andrew Llewellyn Crackhead"?

andrew llewellyn

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:34:11 +1200

BTW – have at it, phrases like that do wonders for my google hits.

andrew llewellyn

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:30:51 +1200

Andrew Llewellyn – crackhead who eats babies?

Goddamn reprobate that he is!

Hadyn Green

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:11:32 +1200

Andrew Llewellyn – crackhead who eats babies?

That's what I said too!

Um, Damian, surely you meant to write:

I'd bet my house that {REMOVED} has never used heroin

Damian Christie

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:02:41 +1200

Yeah, I should point out that I have been a lawyer (before the lure of the big bucks of journalism got too tempting...), and yes, suing someone for defamation is a long hard expensive road. And putting a question mark at the end of a statement is certainly not a…

Shaz

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:30:29 +1200

Probably, otherwise you could say whatever and put a question mark afterwards – eg, "Andrew Llewellyn – crackhead who eats babies?" Although, apparently it is hard to get someone for defamation... lawyer?

andrew llewellyn

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:42:55 +1200

Is it defamatory if we're asking rather that stating?

Hadyn Green

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:25:16 +1200

Heh, ever read the story from the Onion's department of Libel?
"Drew Carrey Killed Guy and Paid to Have it Covered Up".

Damian Christie

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:31:10 +1200

Sorry, I wasn't intending this to become a defamatory guessing game. So I've removed any names people have suggested in that vein (pun intended).

It's really not that interesting. "Musician does drugs" is hardly a revelatory headline – I wasn't trying to titilate or start a wee whisper circle, especially…

InternationalObserver

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:41:36 +1200

heh heh heh ...!!
(and i won't say anything more)

Michael Fitzgerald

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:14:24 +1200

What a bitchie blog.
We all know stoned/addicts but to start a wee whisper circle of – thank god it's not me – You BITCH.
We all have artists we will happily buy the CD but not buy another ticket to see.

rodgerd

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:04:28 +1200

Now here's an example of losing control of the interview.

(May be NSFW if the phrase "sexual yeti" would get you fired...)

Nat Torkington

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:23:15 +1200

{REMOVED} is very definitely *not* a guy.

I want to hear the recording of Damian being outfoxed by a tricksie Winston ...

Joanna

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:28:05 +1200

{REMOVED}'s a guy? I KNEW it...

andrew llewellyn

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:59:11 +1200

No, it's a guy apparently.

andrew llewellyn

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:56:58 +1200

Yes, I have a question – can we speculate here about who the ex pat Kiwi with the smack problem is?

{REMOVED}? Oh wait – it could be {REMOVED} herself.

Joanna

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:41:12 +1200

Any questions?

Yes, I have a question – can we speculate here about who the ex pat Kiwi with the smack problem is?

InternationalObserver

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:51:01 +1200

There are the people you want to propose to after talking to them for ten minutes *cough*Anita McNaught*cough*.
Few people, man or woman alike, have survived the McNaughty personal experience unscathed.

and you wanna know how many its sold, D? You angling to sneak onto this?
No, I think he…

Damian Christie

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:48:48 +1200

I think the kid was a bit of a shite to be honest. When she asks what his mother said and he says "I don't know you'd have to ask my mother about that"... that's almost Winston Peters territory :)

(come to think it it Johnny looks a tad like…

Ben Austin

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:45:18 +1200

That was painful, but only because the kid wasn't playing up for the camera. He just didn't seem to really care and was answering questions as anyone probably does in real life – hesitation, thinking the question through, mishearing, not admitting error – or at least trying to justify it.…

Simon Grigg

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:32:54 +1200

your moment of international notoriety and you wanna know how many its sold, D?

You angling to sneak onto this

(come to think it it Johnny looks a tad like you in the photo).

And just to sidetrack your thread before the dicussion gets going WTF is with MacBloat trying…

Roho

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:31:29 +1200

It is excruciating. She seemed shamefully underprepared, asked a lot of closed questions and should've killed the interview long before she did. I also glanced over a comment on Youtube saying he has Asperger's.

To me all interviews are hard work and if I had to interview a precocious kid…

samuel walker

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:25:47 +1200

that cnn interview is excruciating, a bit like watching the office. That must be true nightmare material for you.

on the other end of the scale:

james brown "drunk" live on tv.

Public Address

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:25:47 +1200

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