Stephen Fry Vs.Steven Morrissey

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Will that joke be funny anymore when their lives are stretching gloriously behind them?

― Andy Cubasi, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen Fry onstage singing 'Barbarism begins at home' and swinging some gladiloli around his head like David's slingshot.....mmmm, lasting image, marvellous, isn't it?

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Stephen Fry.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw, Morrisey's also a Stephen.

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stephen Morrisey" = poet and teacher, was born in Montreal, Canada,
in 1950
"Steven Morrissey" = Steven Patrick Morrissey (born May
22, 1959), former lead singer of The Smiths

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

morrissey is liberace/axlrose, fry is too lacking in presence to be anything but one-dimensional

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm, mark g, i'm pretty sure the lead singer of the Smiths is a 'ph'......i have read a lot of books about him, they can't all be wrong can they? Or has coffee finally overwhelmed me?

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

coffee finally overwhelmed ye

Sandie Shaw : Steven (you don't eat meat) famous b-side

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You're not thinking of Stephen tintin Duffy?

― Andy Cubasi, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(just cause I'm a 'ph' myself...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen 'Bastard Bastard' Custard, you mean?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It seems there's an equal amount of 'phs' and 'vs' on the net - maybe he spells it both ways? Marin C Stong, Smiths obsessive, spells it Stephen in 'The Great Rock Discography', which is fanatically completist.

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That's 'Martin C Strong'

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

In the worstest copy-edited book OF ALL TIME.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

true

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's 'v' on his birth certificate.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Songs that saved your life" has it as 'v'

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It is S-T-E-V-E-N

(listen to him spell it out in Ouija Board Ouija Board)

Martin Strong has a lot on his plate

Fry means well but he left my dad v.out of pocket when he pissed off to Bruges.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair enough. I retire, hurt

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember way back when John Peel playing Ouija Board and saying he found it particularly amusing that the spirit was spelling Morrissey's real name wrongly.

Um... come to think of it I don't really give a rat's ass either way, though.

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'm not that much of a fan anymore, that's my excuse)

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

And there are about three times as many 'Steven Patrick Morrissey's on Google as 'Stephen Patrick Morrissey's, if you prefer to decide things by internet mentalist democracy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, from a letter Morrissey wrote to a penpal in the early 80s:

I'd thank you for your letter, but why should I? You didn't thank me for mine. And please don't call me "Steve"; it reminds me of the Bionic man, to whom I bear little resemblance. It's almost worse than being called "Stephen" which reminds me of someone with a snotty nose. So, please call me "Steven". Am I being unreasonable? Actually, I hate the name Steven, but I won't go into THAT. Rob is a strange name. Is it short for Rabid?

More of these letters can be found at http://www.torr.org/moz/letters.htm

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

So; Steven Fry then.

― pete s, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Stephen Fry takes this one by a factor of several million.

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh for God's sake.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh Christ I've left the iron on.

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the link, Eyeball Kicks.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Both peaked in 1988.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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