The Godlike genius of TVGOHOME Posted Fri Aug 25 20:25:37 BST 2000 by Mr Griffiths

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Charlie Brooker's fake TV listings site, TVGOHOME, contains some of the finest sentences ever constructed in the English language? Look at the 'Neighbours' listing in which "Toadie attempts to row a boat made of Disprin across an ocean of piss". That man do good word things.


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Posted By Anonymous Person on Fri Aug 25 23:48:05 BST 2000:

Yeah, Charlie, whatever....


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Posted By Justin on Fri Aug 25 23:55:41 BST 2000:

Tell you what, though. Unnovations is crippingly unfunny.


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Posted By MArk on Sat Aug 26 00:04:38 BST 2000:

Just as well he wisely keeps it separate from the TVGOHOME site. The Muttworld strip on SUPERKAYLO was pretty funny, though.


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Posted By Anonymous on Sat Aug 26 01:32:08 BST 2000:

The line about Toadie wasn't a joke. It was a real Neighbours plot line from last year.

If you want to know, it fizzed a bit, and then sank.


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Posted By Nathan Barley on Sat Aug 26 11:05:49 BST 2000:

I don't see the joke.


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Posted By Francis, age 5 on Sat Aug 26 11:09:28 BST 2000:

It cheered me up after I falled off my bike.


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Posted By Pedro Carolino on Sat Aug 26 11:15:55 BST 2000:

And *Mick Hucknall's Pink Pancakes* is just a rip-off of that actual TV show where Gabby Yorath pops bubble-wrap with her clit.


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Posted By Anonymous on Sat Aug 26 13:28:01 BST 2000:

Now THAT I'd like to see!


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Posted By paste on Sun Aug 27 10:31:16 BST 2000:

who is Mr.Griffiths? is he a comedian?


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Posted By Mark Griffiths on Mon Aug 28 18:44:03 BST 2000:

He is yet another comedy hack with a couple of failed Radio 4 pilots unders his belt and sitcom on Radio Wales.


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Posted By Edward on Mon Aug 28 18:51:16 BST 2000:

Misery loves company!


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Posted By Francis on Wed Aug 30 11:21:20 BST 2000:

I liked it when the man rowed in a boat.


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Posted By Peter Ohwhateveritwas on Wed Aug 30 19:34:28 BST 2000:

>Look at the 'Neighbours' listing in which "Toadie attempts to row a boat made of Disprin across an ocean of piss".

Okay, I'm looking at it... now what?


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Posted By Mr Griffiths on Wed Aug 30 21:13:03 BST 2000:

>>Look at the 'Neighbours' listing in which "Toadie attempts to row a boat made of Disprin across an ocean of piss".
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>Okay, I'm looking at it... now what?


You could try laughing, I suppose. I just thought it was a superbly constructed sentence, possibly the best I've encountered since the phrase 'must inhale helium to subtract credibility from his statements' featured in TDT. I don't know what the politics of liking TVGOHOME are around here, but I applaud a bit of wordsmithery when I see it.


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Posted By Sam D on Wed Aug 30 21:34:58 BST 2000:

Well said Mister Griffiths.


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Posted By Peter Ohwhateveritwas on Thu Aug 31 00:31:41 BST 2000:

Weird. Our brains must be different in some fundamental way. The helium credibility subtraction concept always struck me as a sentence thrown together to excuse the silly voice used in the next bit of film, and not a hilarious bit of word play at all, unlike (say) the thing about being raised by puffins. Also the policeman holding up a very small shirt and saying "These shirts are just too small" was an excellent collision of pictures and words. And that specific quote from that website just seems to sit on the screen and ask me to do all the work to make it amusing and frankly I can't be arsed. Sometimes, these surreal juxtapositions just look to me like computer-generated random noise instead of hilarious mind-bending oh I can't be bothered with the rest of this message goodbye.


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Posted By Mr Griffiths on Thu Aug 31 08:16:19 BST 2000:

And that specific quote from that website just seems to sit on the screen and ask me to do all the work to make it amusing and frankly I can't be arsed.

Yes, I hate it when words I read force my brain to conjure up ideas & pictures.

'It hurts when I use my imagination' - Beavis


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Posted By Peter Ohwhateveritwas on Fri Sep 1 19:59:40 BST 2000:

>And that specific quote from that website just seems to sit on the screen and ask me to do all the work to make it amusing and frankly I can't be arsed.
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>Yes, I hate it when words I read force my brain to conjure up ideas & pictures.
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>'It hurts when I use my imagination' - Beavis

Does it hurt when you try and comprehend an argument? If so, stop reading now. If a sentence *forces* my brain to conjure up ideas & pictures, then surely that's the very definition of good writing. If you read my message a little more carefully, you should be able to see that I was in fact complaining about sentences that *do not* have any such effect. But no doubt this will go straight in one eye and out the other.


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Posted By Mr Griffiths on Sat Sep 2 00:21:43 BST 2000:

I feel verbally spanked. So you didn't like the sentence. Did my irony go in one Ianuccian metaphor and out the other?


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Posted By Peter Ohwhateveritwas on Sat Sep 2 11:59:53 BST 2000:

It did rather. Try putting it through a Morrisian and then leaving it plugged into the Baynamotic converter overnight.


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