Monday, January 21, 2008

Paxman's Toenails

Has the Supreme Paxometer gone mad? Is he under-employed? I think we should be told.
Posted by Bryan Appleyard at 7:53 am

23 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 9:09 am

    Well, he's right! Maybe he should pop down to TK Maxx instead...

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 9:17 am

    He has obviously flipped his lid! Either that or he comes from a family which used to sit around a coal fire, with dad in the tin bath, and clip their nails whilst mum darned up the holes in socks which had lasted for generations...

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 9:29 am

    never mind his toenails; what does his letter say about his cojones?

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 9:31 am

    sorry, for 'say' read 'imply'

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 9:45 am

    i find myself unable to believe this is not actually Richard Madeley pretending to be Paxo.

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  6. Ian russellJanuary 21, 2008 10:56 am

    Is he really 57?! That explains everything.

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 11:08 am

    Look at the reply this has prompted from Michael Winner in the Telegraph today.

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  8. Ian russellJanuary 21, 2008 11:16 am

    Stuffing No Longer Needed Says Paxo.

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  9. Ian russellJanuary 21, 2008 11:40 am

    Exposed! Stuart Rose Looking Into Paxman's Pants. M&S CEO To Handle Things Personally.

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 11:44 am

    Never mind gusset anxiety, what about Jeremy's whinging over the lack of ribbed socks? I can just see him browbeating Sir Stuart into a U-turn on them with the result that socks which slide beautifully down to your ankles disappear from the rails to be replaced by miles of 'ribbers', the major cause of chronic circulation problems in British men (well, certainly this British man). At one point, in the days when ribbed socks totally dominated, the problem became so bad I looked as though I'd entered the early stages of rigamortis. So Sir Stuart, give a bit on the pants but stand firm on the socks.

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  11. Bryan AppleyardJanuary 21, 2008 12:37 pm

    Salvation, as you all know, lies with the Muji 90 degree sock.

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  12. Uncle Dick MadeleyJanuary 21, 2008 1:39 pm

    Elberry, I also find it hard to believe. I wrote about Paxman's toenails months ago and now it's come to pass. Perhaps my mock heroic epistle on the state of his sock drawer will be given the credit it richly deserves.

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  13. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 1:48 pm

    Surely, Richard, 'twould not go amiss to provide a link to the poem, which as i recall was rather good?

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  14. Uncle Dick MadeleyJanuary 21, 2008 2:08 pm

    Alas, Elberry, I'm far too humble to dare leave a link to that poem on a blog inhabited by people of such wit, eloquence and learning.

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  15. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 3:13 pm

    Ah Dick, how you've mellowed. Humble, indeed. I can't currently open the link, but I assume that it's something by Chaucer about the underwear of 14th century pilgrims or Wordsworth on the state of Coleridge's socks after 3 shoeless days wandering the Lakes. I'm right, am I not?

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  16. Uncle Dick MadeleyJanuary 21, 2008 3:46 pm

    If I've mellowed, it because you mellowed me, JWH.

    My model was Pope, though, in execution, it is much closer to the immortal Pam Ayres from whom I learned so much.

    If my website isn't loading today, it's because I'm being swamped by Americans who scent my blood. I seemed to have annoyed quite a few of them because of something I said about Stephen Fry.

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  17. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 4:56 pm

    Richard, Richard, when will you realise that blogs aren't the place for tactlessness or controversy. Take a leaf from my book and before you write, intone solemnly, "i only want to please people. i will write nothing offensive, alarming, ironic, ambiguous, or murderous. i am a man of peace."

    Then you'll have a nice chirpy blog like mine with lots of totally sane and reasonable commentators!

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  18. Uncle Dick MadeleyJanuary 21, 2008 5:10 pm

    Wise words as usual, Elberry. The world probably doesn't want to acknowledge the terrible war that's been raging in Jeremy's sock draw for the past ten years.

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  19. MarkJanuary 21, 2008 5:33 pm

    My champion socks all come from a yacht chandler. The best pair is still going seven years later. An older pair - a good ten years now - is still doing sterling service though now as an outer sock for boots. And they're mightly warm. Maybe - who knows - a good soaking in salt water and some hard walking is what the longer-lasting sock really needs. I've never understood this thing about M&S and footware. Their range is all buy today and throw away tomorrow. Imho, anyone who has to buy socks more than once ever three to five years doesn't have a sock problem, they have a fashion/image problem. Somehow, I doubt Sir SR will be suggesting this to Paxo.

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  20. Selena DreamyJanuary 21, 2008 5:43 pm

    ...what does his letter say about his cojones?

    As you know, I myself have been addicted to intelligent men (rather than to house-keeping).

    And if Paxo was perhaps the most conceited man I ever saw without his Y-fronts, I am inclined to regret that, despite an ego the size of a Bentley, his cojones have none of the same pre-eminence.

    Dreamy

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  21. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2008 7:32 pm

    Bryan, I already marked those Muji 90's as "Must Sees" and "Must Buys" when in Britain in June. Seems odd to have socks on either list. Explains what the American producer meant in an episode of As Time Goes By a few years back, though.

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  22. NigeJanuary 22, 2008 10:27 am

    Gravity, Paxo.

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  23. AnonymousDecember 13, 2008 12:35 am

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