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I seem to have been accidentally emailed with some raw text from the new editor of MBY - I think cos my initials are similar to the subeditor and my initials might be next one down. It's very revealing I must say.
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Hello there. Wooh, i've got this new job at the trendy MBY office. I can hardly believe my luck. Mufh better than the wellies brigade at MBM two floors down, har har.
Unfortunately, i know almost NOTHING about decent boats - the biggest thing i've ver been on is that old MBM heap Birchwood "Calm Voyager" with the ugly hull and sellotaped wiring loom, so ahem, i'm a bit depserate for ideas.
Fortunately, while i was arranging the teddy bears on my desk and trying to work out how the gas lever things work on this almost-new chair (it's even got seat tilt!) I found an ancient old folder marked "ideas for new features". Phew! This might be just what i needed.
Now, ordinarily, of course, nobody in their right minds would touch an ancient old folder marked "ideas" , and if an idea is so dud that pros like Isitt and Harper can't use it - it's pretty certain to be a total dud. And so it seems to be, but I'm er trapped in the idea now...
Anyway, see, it turns out from some old bit of a info sent to Harper (who couldn't bring himself to use it even in that 100 Years of Yawn Old Magazine Articles Nobody Read First Time Around - Reprinted) that er my grandad, right, he had a really crap old boat AND he had the same name as me - Andrea! Yes, isn't that amazing! Well, ok, not that amazing i suppose, since i mean he liked crap old boats for a start and do I, obviously, what with working Mainly Bustedboats Monthly for a while, and havingh a crap boat same as him. In fact , i suppose it shows that whereas my grandad had the gettup-and go to seek new horizons, buy a boat at the dawn of the motorboating age and feature in a boat magazine....all i've done is get a job at the same magazine, which i admit isn't all that adventurous. I even use the same ole place as grandad did to keep his boat.
God i sound dul dull dull when i read this back. It's hardly an article, rather an ilustration of how bereft of ideas i am - still doing the same old things in the same old place as some old gimmer who died 30 years ago. How newsworthy is that to some bloke reading this on a gin palace in the med? I reckon that bloody Isitt must have planted that old article here on my desk ON PURPOSE knowing damn well i'd drone on about it when i opened the flippin folder and look like a fuddy dudy old fool. What a Git! And i still haven't got a clue about the boats! Jeez, i can't see me lasting long at this rate. I know! - i'll sign it on the bottom of the web page as "Tom Isitt" - and he'll get the blame for this twaddle. Hee hee!
Tom Isitt (and NOT Hugo Andrea, honest)
Hm
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Hello there. Wooh, i've got this new job at the trendy MBY office. I can hardly believe my luck. Mufh better than the wellies brigade at MBM two floors down, har har.
Unfortunately, i know almost NOTHING about decent boats - the biggest thing i've ver been on is that old MBM heap Birchwood "Calm Voyager" with the ugly hull and sellotaped wiring loom, so ahem, i'm a bit depserate for ideas.
Fortunately, while i was arranging the teddy bears on my desk and trying to work out how the gas lever things work on this almost-new chair (it's even got seat tilt!) I found an ancient old folder marked "ideas for new features". Phew! This might be just what i needed.
Now, ordinarily, of course, nobody in their right minds would touch an ancient old folder marked "ideas" , and if an idea is so dud that pros like Isitt and Harper can't use it - it's pretty certain to be a total dud. And so it seems to be, but I'm er trapped in the idea now...
Anyway, see, it turns out from some old bit of a info sent to Harper (who couldn't bring himself to use it even in that 100 Years of Yawn Old Magazine Articles Nobody Read First Time Around - Reprinted) that er my grandad, right, he had a really crap old boat AND he had the same name as me - Andrea! Yes, isn't that amazing! Well, ok, not that amazing i suppose, since i mean he liked crap old boats for a start and do I, obviously, what with working Mainly Bustedboats Monthly for a while, and havingh a crap boat same as him. In fact , i suppose it shows that whereas my grandad had the gettup-and go to seek new horizons, buy a boat at the dawn of the motorboating age and feature in a boat magazine....all i've done is get a job at the same magazine, which i admit isn't all that adventurous. I even use the same ole place as grandad did to keep his boat.
God i sound dul dull dull when i read this back. It's hardly an article, rather an ilustration of how bereft of ideas i am - still doing the same old things in the same old place as some old gimmer who died 30 years ago. How newsworthy is that to some bloke reading this on a gin palace in the med? I reckon that bloody Isitt must have planted that old article here on my desk ON PURPOSE knowing damn well i'd drone on about it when i opened the flippin folder and look like a fuddy dudy old fool. What a Git! And i still haven't got a clue about the boats! Jeez, i can't see me lasting long at this rate. I know! - i'll sign it on the bottom of the web page as "Tom Isitt" - and he'll get the blame for this twaddle. Hee hee!
Tom Isitt (and NOT Hugo Andrea, honest)
Hm
