Has to be #2, considering we’re a nation of whining racist homos.

Man like Penman, he OTM.

Has to be #2, considering we’re a nation of whining racist homos.

“They say he never defended himself—why should he? If he was racist, the News of the World would have exposed him, never mind the fucking Bizzare magazine.”

None of those guys are American, what kind of shit are you trying to pull?

Anyway, my short list is James Brown, Jim Brown, and Clint Eastwood.

BOONIE, DAME EDNA AND PAULINE HANSON

Penman’s response is as wearily predictable as the enterprise itself is patronising and pointless, but Zina Bendybus-Wimoweh is a name worthy of Pynchon.

this bit of penman is interesting:

“Although a stray comment from Laura Levene (I think, I had the sound half down by this exasperated point) was the only indication here that maybe they were a bit unsettled at TCS by JUST how conservative their viewers choice was – the top 3 “living” icons all white, all male, all middle aged or older. Which means that either there is an even bigger disjunction between who they WISH was watching the show and the age of the people who really ARE; or their supposedly trendy Observer Music Monthly-reading cocktail-drinking ”demographic“ are as hidebound and blinkered as some old Punch-reading Home Counties ex-Colonial from the 1920s...”

it begs the question who *is* pleased with current bbc culture programming? apparently not the people who keep tuning in, but also evidently not the people the bbc want to tune in. you end up feeling, well, why not give the audience what it wants instead of stupid version of same?

I quite like the Culture Show, usually, but I had to turn off their ‘debate’ on the three finalists with Stuart Maconie, Bill Oddie, and Martin Freeman. Top tip for everyone: Bill Oddie is mental and to be avoided unless you want someone to talk about badgers.

D Attenborough > Moz and Mac. He is far more consistent (in quality terms) than the other two.

Obviously the whole exercise is absurd.

attenbro is just the voiceover guy these days right?

who is stephen morrissey? is that the same as morrissey? disgusting.

i like sir david attenborough a lot.

i think mccartney is loathsome.

iconoclastic

i vote for paris hilton, britney spears and lindsay lohan, anyway.

i agree with penman.

BBC art isn’t sooooo bad, it’s just all been ghettoised onto BBC4. The Culture Show is usually pretty good as well. The poll is like like all polls—it’s always the common denominator that will rise to the top, leaving all the interesting stuff languishing. This is common to all of them (I remember an ILM top 100 music poll that ended up looking like something out of Q mag) and I don’t think this shortlist says anything too insightful about the viewers.

All the mozheads will pile in and vote for Morrissey, they’ll try to get a sound bite out of him, and he will chase the BBC off his land, brandishing a massive a big gun.

Somewhere there is some WANKER with a complete set of MOJO and ‘Q’ magazines—who has complete DVD sets of all his favourite COMEDIES (he can ‘do’ the Ricky Gervais dance from The Office) and he has a mate who got him tickets for that recent Noel Gallagher acoustic set and it was “blindin’, yeah, he’s still got it, yuh,” and HE BLOCK VOTED here, didn’t he?

wow so lazy!!

bbc4 is sort of ok but... impotent. i’m not even that interested in subsidized art tbh. on the other hand, paris hilton ain’t shit.

a friend of mine had a homemade “what would paris do?” t-shirt, like, before the sex tape and everything. i’m so proud of her, retrospectively.

I watched five minutes of the Culture Show the other week. An item about Sparklehorse using Blake poems was introduced with words along the lines of, “You wouldn’t expect an American singer-songwriter to be praising an eighteenth-century English poet: we investigate this bizarre union...” Yeah, it’s not as if, after Poe, Blake isn’t the poet that half-assed ‘literary’ rock fucks always name! Cut to old Linkous strumming away, dreary as fuck, I wander through each chartered street... That was enough Culture Show for me.

Oh wait, reading the Penman thing reminded me of the handbag piece. Interestingly, I too wondered how the Culture Show had gone from doing pieces about Terry Riley to pieces about fucking handbags.

what? What do Morrissey, Paul MacCartney and David Attenborough have in common, anyway? (Apart from all being, when you get down to it, part of a comfort-inducing past rather than any unpredictable or frightening snip.

Umm, it’s not their fault they’re in this, right?

On the basis of his performance in NCIS (which you all should be really be watching of a Saturday evening) I’d vote for David McCallum.

(okay, that sparklehorse thing was shit) but the piece on that Tower of John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band was good, I thought. Even if the analysis was a bit poo. And the fans were creepy. And the artist was annoying. Oh, forget it, it was all shit.

Lauren Laverne may be prejudicing my opinion here somewhat.

In the “it would be rubbish if there wasn’t LL to look at” sense.

On the basis of his performance in NCIS (which you all should be really be watching of a Saturday evening) I’d vote for David McCallum.

I wouldn’t go as far as voting, but I certainly would give an honourable mention.

Also, are you trolling us with that statement?

NCIS is awesome.

i’d vote for Penman.

I still think that short list is awesome in a “That’s It?” kind of way.

IF I hadn’t taken the pledge about parody threads, I’d have started a

“The Nation’s Greatest Inanimate Object : Shortlist” thread..

1) The Angel of the North

2) The River Trent

3) Birmingham.

No love for the M62, grout?

4) (Stephen) Morrissey

(xpost)

ts: no parody pledge vs no list pledge

this is a thread about a list, not a list thread.

What happens if any of the three nominees die before the poll result is announced?

ringo v. martin rossiter play-offs

What happens if any of the three nominees die before the poll result is announced?

Nation mourns, poll conveniently shelved (which would be a result given that the whole thing is a bit embarrassing).

Nation mourns a bit, unless it’s Morrissey, in which case a part of the nation mourns incredibly.

A very small part of the nation (remember, “This Charming Man” only got to #25 first time out; What The Public Wanted was Billy Joel, the Flying Pickets and Roland Rat Superstar.

Studs Terkel

Phew. Attenborough wins!