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Dead trees and pajama kids at the Adam Smith Institute The ASI hosted a gathering of bloggers and curious old media types in Westminster last night. Times journo Danny Finkelstein and well known blog commentator Tim Worstall. As with all the ASI events I have attended, I rather enjoyed myself and there was a large posse of OG bloggers to swap scandal with.
Read more about it from Jax here.
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As so often with Perry’s posts – “there was a large pose of OG bloggers to swap scandal with.” – one wonders whether to ascribe one of his phrases to irony or another Perry bad spelling day.
OG is indeed what I intended to write
Thank you, Verity and Perry. As a result of your exchange I’ve now sprayed cider across my laptop’s keyboard whilst laughing. How the hell do I clean this crap up?
RobtE
RobtE – Precisely! I’m laughing too! White wine in my case!
Oh! Stealth editing on Samizdata? Tell me it ain’t so.
RbtE – well, well, well. Stealth editing. Just like the BBC! which Biased-BBC has been pointing out for three years now.
And now it’s come to Samizdata and soon to a stalag near you!
Here, posse, posse, posse! Good posse! Nice posse!
Stealth editing! How pathetic!
Verity, I think this shocking situation calls for you to take leave of the Samizdata comments and start your own blog: Biased Samizdata.
Please. I’m begging you.
Uh, how is it a ‘stealth’ edit if the comments trail of events is still here and plain for everyone to see? What exactly do you expect, a friggin’ cookie for spending more time on this blog than the editors do?
OG bloggers? Well, there was me, The Briff, Mr. Free Market….who else? Don’t tell me I’ve missed noting that yet even more British bloggers went to the same school?
Or, umm, have I missed a meaning of OG here?
Aw, I quite liked the notion of a ‘pose of bloggers’.
I failed to make it as I was abroad on business. ASI events are often quite good fun. I laughed out loud when I saw a pic on Clive Davis’s blog of Perry standing next to a profile of Adam Smith. Ah, the “invisible hand” at work……
Concerned Citizen – I think it is graver than that. I think SamizdataWatch is called for. We must be ever alert.
Julian Taylor, I liked “a pose of bloggers” too, which is why it caught my eye.
Friggin’ Jackie Danicki – When a thread engages me, I contibute to it. There are, on the other hand, huge swathes of Samizdata that interest me not at all and never see my name. This, I believe, is what blogging is all about?
Keep your friggin’ cookie, sweetheart. We say biscuit in Britain so your American epithet loses its je ne sais quoi.
Verity: In Britain they say: ‘I don’t know what.’ 😉
Jackie Danicki – The trail is not there for all to see. The spelling mistake that changed the meaning of Perry’s sentence has been corrected, rendering the comments that follow it rather puzzling.
Jackie vs Verity: a scrap not for those of a nervous disposition…..
Verity, perhaps you should not admit publicly how easily confused you are.
JP: Free entertainment is always a plus…