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about helping people. So, if anyone can answer this plea from Kent-based Marlene Gow, we’ll all be able to sleep a little sounder: ‘Can I take my dog with me to the Christmas fair if he is on a lead?’ If you had money on a Hollywood star getting two mentions over the past few weeks, Bruce Willis wouldn’t be top of your list. His doppelganger is lurking around Shoreditch in Virgins Die Horny according to Yoana Dimitrova: ‘Spectacular fringe play! Good actors (they even have a Bruce Willis lookalike hehe).’
And in this review of the Brad Pitt-starring war movie, Bill Smith proclaims ‘Fury shows the day to day fight of you me and our fathers / grandfathers don’t expect any Bruce Willis hero the tank crew is Jo public conscripts.’ As if that wasn’t enough (and it truly wasn’t), he goes on: ‘As a follower of 1939/45 WW2 the story was very factual and a good read [it’s a film Bill, it’s a film], even with the WW2 interest I did have an idea of leaving halfway through as a steak is nice but meeting the dead animal does not work for me.’
Should The List Eating and Drinking Guide head honchos be looking for new reviewers for their 2015/16 publication, Bill has to be their man.
Clearly some former rock icons will do anything these days to keep themselves in the public domain. They might even take the name Kimberly Whyte and post about open mic nights: ‘Singer looking for large open mic venues so can sing lots covers grunge / rock. I look like and sing like Courtney Love.’ You’re Courtney Love, right?
Then again, some people will force themselves to say anything just to keep their day from ending too quickly. Kyle Chiotti-Bryant comes into that category for his comment on
the National Museum of Scotland’s 2010 exhibition, Askasaurus: The Dinosaur Event for Grown-Ups. According to the somewhat belated Kyle, this was, quite simply: ‘Cool’. With news that Adrian Edmondson is still finding it too hard to talk about the death of his buddy Rik Mayall, Sarah Westwood offered this: ‘I think Ade should perform a song as it would be a more personal tribute!’ I suspect that wherever he attempted to perform such a tune, the ghost of Rik would almost certainly phone in a profanity-laden bomb scare.
GRAPHIC CONTENT What we’ve been talking about this month
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When it comes to British politics, why is it that Westminster has crazy characters such as Boris and Nigel and the best Holyrood can muster is Willie Rennie (he’s head honcho of the Scottish Lib Dems, by the way)? With Scottish Labour seeking a new leader we wondered which celeb could get that post and give our body politic a right good shake. In the end, the victor won by, what he’d no doubt term, ‘a fucking landslide’ . . .
39% Malcolm Tucker 6% Janey Godley
13% Groundskeeper Willie 5% George ‘Gorgeous ous ous George’ Galloway
11% Brian Cox (the sciencey one) 8% Brian Cox (the Dundee one)
5% John ‘Smeato’ Smeaton 3% Oor Wullie
7% Sir Alex Ferguson 3% Shrek
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