Because I feel the need to crow on my blogsite about my unparalleled genius.
So please indulge me as I get this out of my system.
(ahem...)
TOLD YOU SO! TOLD YOU SO!
Yes, that does feel good.
In this case my crowing is over an entirely trivial matter - the All Blacks team.
When the selectors announced the team for the Northern Hemisphere I was dismayed to notice the absence of a third hooker in the squad. Especially when one of the two hookers selected has had a series of injury problems over his career. I made my opinion known on a sports blogsite, and then waited. And waited.... and waited...
And then this morning this.
The All Blacks insist their gamble to pick just two hookers in their rugby tour squad hasn't backfired as a Corey Flynn hamstring strain saw Aled de Malmanche rushed in from a Bali holiday for a potential bench spot against England.Graham Henry, next time you pick a team, please call me. I could have saved you a lot of bother.
Flynn was rated doubtful for Sunday's (NZT) test at Twickenham after suffering the twinge near the end of yesterday's session.
(See, that wasn't too unbearable, was it? Wait... where are you going? Come back!)
Dear Scott
ReplyDeleteI rank 4th I think on bragging (and definitely self-promotion as the self isn't promoted when using a pseudonym) via blog. Well in behind the egos of
1. Russell Brown (who is off the bloody charts)
2. David Farrar (who would be #1 but for his ability in the media well surpasses RB's)
3. Whaleoil
Regards
Cactus
Oh maybe 5th - Peter Cresswell is right up there. Have you seen the way he posts up houses he designs?
ReplyDeleteWell 5th is still a good effort.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't agree with you about the egos of Farrar or Brown. Being high profile doesn't automatically mean having a big ego. Neither strike me as being particularly egotistical.
"Being high profile doesn't automatically mean having a big ego".
ReplyDeleteOh dear God boy, all bloggers/writers/journos/comments people/letters to the editor writers etc have big egos because in writing opinion publicly they immediately think people care what they write. Some are larger than others.
Farrar and Brown are the two largest examples of a machine that has simply fed itself = self-promotion. Geek comment. You think either would be noticed without having blogs and shameless self-promotion? If they were women neither would be allowed near a television set.
Farrar at least has another job outside the media as plenty of bloggers do, Brown's existence is solely reliant on talking about what other people are doing and saying and promoting himself while doing it. That's why he's #1.
CK
You are displaying a remarkable bitterness towards Mr Brown. That wouldn't have anything to do with his reaction to your APN "scoop" now, would it?
ReplyDeleteCactus Kate desperately needs to get a life. She is in self-paarody territory.
ReplyDelete"the self isn't promoted when using a pseudonym" is the funniest thing I read all week.
ReplyDeleteOdgers might be a bitter, but she's much more of a champion that non-medal winning Olympians (herself having played competitive sport to a modest level). She's also a brilliant restaurant critic capable of dumping vast sums of money (and photographing the receipt). Her encyclopaedic knowledge of social policy is in no way constrained by her innumeracy either. Did she tell you about her shopping spree at David Jones or her vast number of conquests?
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