The most outrageous boast you have ever heard?
In my case:
Come back with me to the 1980s. It's morning breaktime and I am holding court in the school staffroom. (I have always been a staffroom person - never understood a teacher who wasn't.) Anyhow the subject of Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time arises. I mention that, unable to understand it, I had put it aside after a few pages. Present was a teacher who had a reputation as a blowhard, a bore, a braggart, conceited, vain, pompous, self-opinionated, self-righteous - remind you of anyone? Tee! Hee! Hee!.
Anyhow this man piped up with: " I have read A Brief History of Time and had no bother with it."
I pointed out to him that the great Bernard Levin had abandoned it on page 29 as unreadable. This cut no ice with this man such was his outrageous ego.
I would like readers to send me accounts of ludicrous boasts that they have heard.
[1] GENE... Educator, Novelist, Humanitarian and Humorist - TO KNOW HIM WAS TO LOVE HIM
ReplyDeleteFROM AN EMAIL SENT TO GENE
Delete"a blowhard, a bore, a braggart, conceited, vain, pompous, self-opinionated, self-righteous - remind you of anyone?"
Gene you have described Detterling to a tee!
Mr & Mrs Anonymous
Torquay
Gene Vincent describes his blog as a virally runaway success, yet it is so thoroughly ignored by the public that he has to invent correspondents to make it look as though someone reads it.
DeleteOther assorted outrageous boasts by Gene "Inadequate Tosser" Vincent:
that he has published two novels and is about to publish a third;
that he has written a devotional book on the Psalms;
that his writing was admired by the late Clive James;
that he is in correspondence with Dr Richard Dawkins;
that he has sodomised Detterling's wife;
that he has fathered Detterling's son;
that he lied, cheated, stole and plagiarised his way to a third class degree in PPE at St John's College Oxford;
that his penis is eight and a half inches long [8.5 centimetres, possibly];
that he groped and pawed female colleagues at Douay Martyrs;
that he has a sense of humour.
that he is a long-standing friend of Detterling, who in fact would not piss on Gene Vincent were he on fire;
that he was responsible for routing a non-existent clique on the TES Opinion forum;
that he possesses information about the suicide that didn't happen of a woman who didn't exist as the outcome of persecution that never took place by a clique that never existed.
Gene Vincent: living proof that you cannot polish a turd.
Detterling I am surprised that you haven't written in to say that you also had read 'A Brief History of Time' and had no bother with it.
ReplyDeleteNo, Gene, unlike you, I have no need to tell lies about my achievements. However they may stack up, they are real. With Stephen Hawking's book I operated my page 15 rule, which is that if I get to page fifteen of a book and am not enjoying it or understanding it I stop reading.
ReplyDeleteThis is sharp contrast to you with your endless boasts of familiarity with the works of James Joyce despite never having finished Ulysses or even started Finnegans Wake.
But never mind all that:
how do you reconcile your "christianity" with your love of pornography, which exploits and degrades women?
how do you reconcile your "christianity" with using pornography to insult and belittle a good christian woman, a superb mother and wonderful wife - who is worth fifty of you?
how do you reconcile your "christianity" with groping young women sexually in a pretence of avuncular interest, and thinking that an "apology" published anonymously on a blog that nobody reads can somehow atone for it?
how do you reconcile your claim to be "searingly honest" with the string of outrageous lies you have told on this blog and in which you have persisted despite never being able to substantiate any of them?
And when are you going either to publish the attested date, place and verdict of the "Myrtle Thornberry" "inquest", or finally admit that you made the whole thing up?