heard about this, yesterday

he took her to a science museum

That’s a Baxendale song, isn’t it?

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

xpost :(

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).

“the Cheeky girl currently polishing Lembit’s chin”

ooer etc

“lembit opik”

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

waht is “big chin”?

what with? xpost

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.

Although on second loading, it did change!

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).

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

She just laughed and said “you’re so cheeky!”

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

seriously all of you are making this up

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

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”

i would say, ‘stop reading ben elton’.

it’s in the main grau as well

dark horse

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tony Banks, wasn’t it?

Yeah, and I look what happened to him.

As do we all!

lol typos

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

Ailsa, are you sure?

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.

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.

“Do they come as a package?”

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

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)

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).

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?“