Defend the indefensible: Josie Long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvyulXcj32g

ouch

I haven't kept track of her career since she left, but it had come to my attention recently that she had a nice line in stand-up comedy, and was doing the festival circuits with some success. I haven't seen nor heard any of her material, so I can't comment on that (yet, I'll check the links), but I did know her when she was younger, and she did seem a decent, if slightly attention-seeking (well, who isn't? ;-D) kinda gal.

i hope this was deliberately 'ironic'

He was so enthusiastic about how great it was. I worry for him. Does she make badges and stuff - him and Mrs Carsmile had little home-made badges?

I saw too many bad knob-gags in a former life, so I kind of want her to be good - she's doing something different, if contrived.

(holla at ya boy, jack, 99 style)

it doesn't take very much to get some people rejoicing, does it?

goths -- they have jobs, amirite?

people who drink on buses -- put it away, guys... haha, the guys know what i'm talking about.

HER BLOG/PODCAST!

"I have a shower gel called Mandate!" (30 seconds of laughter)

'This summer camp' was a week-long course held in a residential study centre in the Home Counties for a week. It was encouraged to help gifted children interact with one another and undertake fun, intelectually-stimulating extra-curricular activities by day and night. Naturally, most people there were a little off their nut, but I myself absolutely loved it, especially towards the end, when I appreciated quite how much the course had done for my previously-negligent social skills.

Ah, the bygone days of youth...

She makes me think I could also have a career as a stand-up comedienne

CarsmileSteve likes her

This isn't a good defence, is it? Still, best I can do under the circumstances.

(I got sent to one of those summer camps for gifted children things when I was about 12. This is one of the reasons why I decided I'd rather concentrate on social skills than academia. It cocked up the balance of my life so much that I ended up spending the rest of my time at school attempting to look completely stupid, rather than be associated with the sort of people who get made to go to summer camps for gifted children)

In the same way that you can compare US and British teeth.

ZING.

...albeit a shit one, obviously.

I learnt to blend social skills and academia, by ditching 'uncool' subjects like Science, and concentrating upon the 'arty' and the articulate. It helped that quite a few people on the summer camp were pretty cool on anyone's scale. Josie Long included, of course. ;-)

But hey, you're the one with the social *and* the academic skills.

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Anyway, Ailsa, didn't we promise not to have any more arguments about education? :(

(I didn't promise anything. And this isn't an argument. Or about education.)

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no, more... 'fast' than that. less old skool public school.
rah-rah we've-got-more-cocaine-than-you exclusivism.

st john's cambridge ox equiv = st john's oxford.