Given your disappointment over lack of comments, here's an answer. She's a genius, a poet, and absolutely sums up my shopping experiences with kids this Christmas. Thankyou for bringing her into my life. What worries me is.. why had I never been aware of her before?
What font is that on your site, rob? It looks like a regular font, fed through MS's Clear Type. Never seen one like it.
It *should* be Sylfaen.
The CSS is:
font-family: 'Sylfaen', 'Palatino Linotype', serif;
Believe it or not, as I write this, I am no more than a mile or so from Lucy Mangan's workplace, yet I had never read her before this afternoon. She may now be my favorite contemporary British writer. Nice find.
I might just do that, though she'd probably think I was a stalker. As it happens, I spent much of yesterday and today reading pretty much everything she's written for the Guardian. Even though I'm no expert on British pop culture, I experienced snot-spraying bouts of laughter at least a dozen times.
How very nice that you're all saying such lovley things about my daughter! Thank you.
Hello sir! As you've raised such a disturbingly funny daughter, there are doubts about the soundness of your parenting, but we do love her, and so we thank you...
Thank you Mr or Ms Ogged. I feel it only fair to state that Lucy's comments on her parenting are, on occasion, mildy exaggerated to make her point. However, there is little doubt that had we not taught her to read when she was three, we probably wouldn't have to endure the endless vitriol which she now sees fit to pour on us. Sounds of chickens coming home to roost all over the place!
The decision to teach her to read does seem to have been a fateful one. Though where you hear chickens, we hear only laughter.
I have found myself a new favourite writer... but nobody else seems to have found her! At last, after trawling the Guardian website and Google, I found this page, which is, to be frank, quite random. But hey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em...
Trawling? What is that, a compliment? In any case, welcome to the community of the like-minded.
I, too, think she is brilliant; her articles in the guardian never fail to crack me up.
Lacking the profundity of other reviewers, I have to confess, after reading Miss Mangan's articles, the stalker in me arose and I googled her to find a picture; what can I say, I am totally and utterly in love.
p.s. Do not fear, Mr Mangan. I'm not a stalker of the dangerous kind (oh, don't they all say that!).
Let's be kind and attribute my rude intrusion to romantic curiosity.
I have just tuned into ms mangan column over the past couple of weeks and im now head over hetrosexual heals in love with lucy mangan!!!!!
.... and can anyone help me in finding all her past gems of hillarity... ive been all over the guardian website but uncovered just a couple .. there must be more surely!!!!
Between the spelling and the not finding, you're not exactly classing up the fan club, mm. Go here.
and i promise no more irritating exclaimation marks!!!!! ... starting now.
Thank you Ogged for the not so constructive critisism and the link. I am currently attending an adult learning centre to improve my reading and writing.
now thats more like it constuctive "criticism" - thank you ogged.
Bully for you Ogged, you showed her what for and no mistake. Lets keep the illiterate riff raff out. Chatrooms and message boards the last bastions for those with flawless grammer and perfect spelling. Yes I too share millymolly's enthusiam on recently discovering the delights of Lucy Mangan. Her column headed 'Don't do it Camilla' had me laughing out loud in the otherwise silent dentist's waiting room.
If this is anything to go by,
http://sfrsite.topcities.com/mangan.htm
she's a very nice looking lady. Pretty *and* witty.
Lucy's article on horoscopes actually nearly forced me to soil myself on an aeroplane.....hysterical......and yet frighteningly true.....
why has lucy's column been shunted to the back page of G2 ? Why hasn't she been given her own newspaper yet?
Why is Lucy doing a health column ? Doesn't she know she's physically perfect already ? When is she going to be given something worthy of her talents ?
Thankyou to the editorial staff at the Guardian for giving Lucy a long article again. Not only do we have her wit and wisdom on Tesco retailing, we also have four fabulous full colour pictures of our heroine! (My favourite is the one on the cover.)
Hi Lucy,
I really like you. You are beauuuuuutiful.
I hope to see you one day.
I thought your real name was a secret, Ogged?
So tell me, is your real life nickname "The Rza"?
Actually I bet there are a lot of Iranian-Americans calling themselves The Rza.
You'd find out if you were coming to the meetup...
A lot of Iranian-Americans call themselves "Tony."
Are you going to the same RL nickname that w-lfs-n knows, or do you have a store of them that you can choose from?
I do have a few real-life nicknames, but I'm going to use "Ogged."
People named "Reza" don't call themselves "The Rza"? It would be lame if they did but I think it's even lamer that they don't. They should think about calling themselves "The Rza" and then not do it.
I think the meetup is the night of my final exam. If you want to hold something over my head, it should be "You'd have found out if you knew how to," um, whatever that place was called.
"how to get to"
and you're saying you're not going to use your RL nickname? So I wouldn't find out anyway? Tease!
The word you're looking for is "coquette".
his RL nickname is "bitchcakes."
Sometimes, "Hitler."
Please don't tempt me into Holocaust bondage jokes, thanks.
Added to the memory map: Abu is a fellow News Radio fan.
That would be fantastic.
Posted by: Hermann Goering
Took the kids to Mickey D's after little-league today. Service was a little slow in the drive-thru, but they gave us an extra order of fries by mistake. Score! Suckas!!
Evidently Goering doesn't believe in honesty and fair play. He deserved that coffee-scald!
Also, I'm liking Texas's chances in the big game.
posted by: Rudoph Hess
Rudolph, whatever. Hell, let's just shut down unfogged and start this other thang.
Ok, I feel a little dirty about saying this, but did you see the boy playing third base--shhh! I kept imagining him with his shirt off! omigod!
Posted by: Leni Riefenstahl
That might not be in the spirit of banality.
Also, Unfogged sucks.
I'm just glad you said it. Now we can move on.
Nuance, people. Unfogged sucks to a certain extent.
the blog would have no actual fascist content
Will we get to use avatars in the comments? That would totally reich ach rock.
Unfogged sucks in the best sense of the word. That is, in an at-the-Mineshaft sort of way.
Luckily, there's absolutely no shame of recognition in reading through those track titles.
Re: 52
Note to self: Never click on one of apo's links while drinking a beverage.
58 to 55 and, well, several of the comments above it as well.
I like that the album cover design is all watermelons.
53: You're reminding me of a heartrending abused child: "Mummy doesn't really mean it when she says she doesn't love us."
AGH! Shut up, Hess! Dumbkof!
Man, have I got the farts today. PBTH. PBTH. PBTH. All goddamn morning. So no smoking near my ass! That is ein Fuhrerwebel!
Posted by: The Reichskanzler, bitches! |Link to this comment | 02-17-41 1:09 PM
ash
['How do you follow that?']
I told a really huge lie at work today, and everyone went for it.
Posted by: Joseph Goebbels
The Reichskanzler is such a Sitzpinkler.
Posted by: Goering | Link to this comment | 12- 7-05 12:20 PM
If this is going to be uncomfortable, I'm totally staying at home. Or getting drunk first. Or getting drunk at home and staying there.
It'll only be uncomfortable if you're tense.
Getting drunk at home first is a good way to cut down on your bar tab.
Goering: The Reichskanzler is such a Sitzpinkler.
Shut up, you fat bastard! Always with 'Ze Plane, Boss! Ze Plane!' Meyer!
Rumsfeld! Now there's a man that understands ein fuhrerprinzip!
Posted by: Ze Goddamn Reichkanzler | Link to this comment | 3-15-45 1:51 PM
ash
['What? You want the Adolf the Baby Looney Tunes character?']
I'm a little late to the party, but I wanted to thank these guys for inviting me to join the blog.
Posted by: John Hindraker
If this is going to be uncomfortable, I'm totally staying at home.
{sniff} Traitors! Liars! Weaklings! All I wanted was a the love of a good woman and to kill EVERYBODY IN DER WORLD! A woman like Maureen Dowd! Ja! But women are too weak to grasp the enourmity of my penis, and men are too stupid to understand! The do not appreciate my art! My poetry! My enourmous cock! If only I had been born later when I could have written EMO! bwah! {sniff} No one understands me! But they will! HAHAHAHA! They'll regret it when I'm gone!
Heil me!
Posted by: Bang! | Link to this comment | 5-01-45 2:02 PM
ash
['Bug-eyed anime child Hitler! It's sell billions!']
Did anyone see Maureen Dowd on the Colbert Report the other night? Hott.
Posted by:Erwin Rommel
Wagner's Come on Feel Der Ring des Nibelungen is a really good album, by the way.
Posted by: Hermann Göring
Wagner's Come on Feel Der Ring des Nibelungen is a really good album, with a mustache. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: Hitler
I hate when I run out of toilet paper.
Posted by: Albert Speer
