Archive for March 9th, 2007

A link to the TV

Grandad March 9th, 2007

The staff in RTE are back from the canteen.

They have put the link to last nights CapitalD show about blogging on their site.

Here it is in all it’s glory.

You have been warned.

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It was obviously watched by a lot of spammers. Over 400 of them have written to me since it was broadcast. They nearly all are offering tranquilisers, or solutions to impotence. Xanax, Viagra, Cialis and drugs I can’t even pronounce.

Here is an honest question - Do I look like I am impotent and depressed?

On second thoughts - don’t answer that.

My moment of TV fame

Grandad March 9th, 2007

So my moment of glory is over.

The television programme went out and I saw myself and cringed.

So that is how other people see me and hear me? I’ve never seen or heard that before. And I don’t want to again.

I had a few phone calls from friends and family and a few text messages. That was nice. Herself is crawling back, of course. One sniff of fame and she comes running.

There was the downside too.

People I had been trying to loose have found me. E-mails from people I thought were dead. Three e-mails from people I knew were dead. I knew the Internet was widespread, but I didn’t realise it had spread to the Afterlife.

Calls from Pat “The Plank” to appear on the Late Late. I hung up on him. No calls from Podge or Rodge, which was a pity.

I wrote to Red Mum who was on the programme too. She never replied. I couldn’t write to Ian Poulton of Fainthearted because the clever man has no e-mail address. Pity, because he was [is] a nice man and I’d like to get in touch.

I’m going to sue RTE of course. I haven’t decided what for, yet.

Doubtless they’ll be putting the programme on the Internet, so those who didn’t see it last night will be able to e-mail it around their offices and they can all have a snigger at the Old Fart.

In the meantime, I shall retire to my life of obscurity and rants and rambles.

I have put a sign on my gate.

“All television crews will be shot on sight”

Unless, of course it’s Lucy Kennedy from Podge and Rodge.