Tim Worstall

Language Question

I’m not very good at this grimmer lark:

I hate to get all Worstallian on your ass, but what business does the BBC have in spending our television tax
license money on expensive redesigns for the website of a television
program. Just fuck off. How about you spend the money, oo, I don’t
know, on making programs that add to the public good? Or better still,
on a redundancy cheque for Justin Fucking Webb?

Is that an example of a dread Americanism? Turning a proper noun into a verb?

Or am I really, really bad at this grimoire stuff?

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6 responses

  1. MrS Avatar
    MrS

    That’s not very nice, is it? I was it school with Justin Webb. He’s a Bath lad. He was a very nice chap.
    Tim adds: Where did he go? Beechen? Cardinal N? King E? Ifthe last he would have been there with Adrian Flook I’d guess?

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  2. pete Avatar
    pete

    If the BBC tax climbs to £180 in few years we can expect ever more frequent redesigns and other ruses to get the avalanche of cash spent. We’ll be inundated with worthy Jane Austen and Dickens costume dramas that nobody wants to watch except a few girls doing English at school.

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  3. MrS Avatar
    MrS

    Adrian Flook was in the year below me at King Eddy’s. To be honest, I’m not surprised the good people of Taunton chose to look elsewhere at the last election. Justin was my best friend at Park School in Weston Lane. he went on to Sidcut, a quaker school near Weston super Mare. That probably explains his charitable outlook on life. Anyway, he was a first class chap.

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  4. Carpsio Avatar
    Carpsio

    You should be pleased – you’re in select company now: Churchillian, Blairite and now… Worstallian!
    Anyway – does this mean that I am good at ‘this grimmer lark?’ Whatever that may be it’s going on my CV in the morning…

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  5. David Gillies Avatar
    David Gillies

    “Worstallian” is an adjective. Anyway, verbing a proper noun has a good pedigree in the blogosphere: think ‘to Fisk’ and, latterly, ‘to Frisch’. Similarly: to mau-mau, to boycott and to hoover.

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  6. David Gillies Avatar
    David Gillies

    Oh, and ‘to spam’.

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