Dear Detterling, Mr & Mrs Anonymous of Torquay here...
Torquay in Winter
Dear Detterling, Mr & Mrs Anonymous of Torquay here.
We would like to offer our services to broker a peace deal between you and Gene.
Now Detters you must know that to attempt to blackmail Gene into taking down his blog is totally reprehensible. This is the very worst of cancel culture.
Blackmail is a terrible, terrible evil Detters. Didn't Dante consign blackmailers into the lowest regions of hell?
Our offer to help is on the table.
Mr & Mrs Anonymous
Torquay
Why do you persist in this ridiculous fiction that you have correspondents in Torquay, Gene? We both know it's you.
ReplyDeleteAs for this equally ridiculous offer, I refer you to Arkell vs Pressdram 1971:
Arkell: [My client's] attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply.
Pressdram: "We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off."
Gene, unless you take this blog down, you are doomed to the public disgrace you so richly deserve.
As to when the axe will fall, let me quote Rick in Casablanca:
"Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon......
And you will regret it for the rest of your life, unlike me.
ReplyDelete"Pressdram: "We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off."
I don't know what damages Private Eye did (or didn't) do to Mr Arkell so I don't know if their reply was appropriate.
I once wrote a poem about Ian Hislop:
R. Sewell! R. Sewell!
Shouted Ian Hislop in rage
As Lord Wyatt of Weeford
Mounted the stage
Odium! Odium!
Shouted the wee man
As Lord Wyatt of Weeford
Mounted the podium.
Not engaging with this, or you, any more.
ReplyDeleteTake your blog down or else.