a thread to ponder lembit opik

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http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1974670,00.html

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

heard about this, yesterday

he took her to a science museum

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a Baxendale song, isn't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't know why but he start to start it somewhere

xpost :(

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i love that it's in the guardian's 'music' section (not a rockist diss, just saying the lib-dems really are in a bad way).

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"the Cheeky girl currently polishing Lembit's chin"

ooer etc

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"lembit opik"

― 99@ (davidcarp), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I was about to say "it isn't daniella, it's gabriela!" then I chekced the story and they had changed it to gabriela! it did say "daniella", I am sure of it

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

waht is "big chin"?

― urghonomic (gcannon), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

what with? xpost

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

He said "Pretend you have no marbles"

For the sake of journalistic accuracy we should point out that the Cheeky girl currently polishing Lembit's chin is Daniella.

Still there, mate.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Although on second loading, it did change!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

The News of the World article is excruciating. As, generally, are most things involving Lembit Opik and either of the Cheeky Girls (it is definitely Gabriela, and that article did say Daniella).

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

how did they get it wrong? there are only two of them.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

She just laughed and said "you're so cheeky!"

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

There isn't even a Cheeky Girl called Daniella. The other one's called Monica.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news2.shtml

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously all of you are making this up

― TOM. BOT. (trm), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

lembit opik -- real name, no gimmicks. ok, a few gimmicks.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah if i read a "current novel" where an mp named "lembit opik" had a thing with a member of "pop duo" the "cheeky girls" and the "news of the world" couldn't figure out (or didn't care) if the girl was "daniela" or "gabriella" or possibly "monica" i would say this is "bullshit"

― urghonomic (gcannon), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i would say, 'stop reading ben elton'.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

it's in the main grau as well

dark horse

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

It's as if the press just make it up to suit themselves!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I said yeah? Well I can't see anyone else cheeky here. Oh sorry Moniella.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

He was engaged to Sian Lloyd?? The welsh weather girl? (well, she talks about weather in other places too, obv)

― C J (C J), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe he'll take Monica/Gabriella/Daniella UFO spotting.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

So when exactly does TV's Sian Lloyd rush into the arms of her new beau, plucky X-Factor runner-up Ray Scouse?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't Lembit win the Politician Spliff Rolling Contest on The Word?

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Tony Banks, wasn't it?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, and I look what happened to him.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

As do we all!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

lol typos

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Lembit didn't become an MP until after The Word had finished, so can't have been him.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Ailsa, are you sure?

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course my first response on hearing this this morning was "Do they come as a package?" Which I'm sure was what Lembit thought too.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

My favourite bit from the NOTW:
I feel sorry for her. I don't want to be rude but she's twice my age, she's maybe scared and doesn't want to be alone. But she's a very attractive woman. She looks really good now with her hair blonde. Probably she wants to look younger.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"Do they come as a package?"

That'd take quite some skill to synchronise, I'd have thought.

― C J (C J), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Pretty sure - hang on:

According to Wikipedia, he was first elected in 1997. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembit_Opik#Parliament)

The Word was axed in 1995.

(xpost to Mark)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oh right, I remember why I'd heard of him in the early 90s - it was coz he'd been a president of the student union at my uni (Bristol).

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Quipped plucky Ray Scouse at a specially arranged press conference:
"Erm, like, I'm honoured she wants to go with me, like, 'cos I mean like I'm only a Scouser erm is that Gerry Marsden and them two blokes out of the Swinging Blue Jeans like?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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