I always think more of the skellington/Frankingstein thing, a childish mishearing of Collings' name.



On 09/May/08, Anon again wrote:
> On 08/May/08, Anon wrote:
> > On 08/May/08, Kengo wrote:
> > > why is your podcast named Herrin (instead of Herring)unless yuo particularly want to be confused for Richard Herrin (the preppie hammer murderer)
> >
> > It's a long running joke with Herrin and Collings -- Richard drops the 'g' on his surname, and Andrew Collins takes the extra 'g' on his.
>
> Yes the longer version of this (I was trying to be quick last night) is, as ED BAILEY points out today due to Richard Herring having started the whole thing off by mis-spelling Andrew Collins name ...
>
> And that is also because RKH has an even longer running joke (throughout all his blogs) where he consistently mis-spell certain names deliberately. Most of the mis-spellings take an unwanted "S" at the end: Tony Blairs, etc (although Richard Branson becomes Branston as per the pickle).**
>
> But, of course, Collins already has an "S" on the end of his name so RKH added the "g".
>
> Which led, I guess, to Collins then removing the "g" from Herrin(g) to redress the balance.
>
> Do you have the full picture now?!
>
>
> ** I also realised that this long running joke is also very clever because every time RKH wants to be a little bit rude about "Tony Blairs" or the evil "Richard Branston" he can do so with a little bit more freedom, knowing that the MIS-SPELLT public person's name is very unlikely to come up in internet search results.
> (Very clever.)
>

How irritating that Richard is barred from telling us the name of the award he was involved with.

If only someone out there on the Internet could have a wild guess at which award it might be, and then anonymously post the link in the guestbook.

Wednesdays WU was a classic. IMVHO. Cheered me up no end.

Two hours for a wank though? Sweet baby jesus, remind me never to challenge you to an arm wrestle.

Personally, when I wanted it to last really long, I'd imagine Miss Marple was on top or such like.

Grim.

I can't say I'm surprised by the vote rigging and Rich's insight into the murky world of nominations. I'm sure exec just go for the lowest common denominator most of the time as more audience = more advertising revenue/success..it would go most of the way to explaining why sat primetime TV is of the most tedious and uninspiring fayre and quality programmes like The Daily Show or Family Guy are relegated to niche channels.

"the British Comedy Awards had been fixed so that Ant and Dec beat Catherine Tate in a phone vote"

I recently found out (thanks to wikipedia) that I was born on exactly the same day as Catherine Tate, so I feel allegiance with my astro twin …… if only I had been born in a different body, to a different life .... imagine now being able to get so close to David Tennant (or perhaps don't, I might come over all wobbly!).

Read the article at Chortle about the vote rigging. Apparently Robbie Williams agreed he would present the award as long as he would be presenting it to his friends Ant and Dec. He did not ask them to rig it though. What a child. I remember when Robbie Williams was an amusing person to watch on Live and Kicking and pretty much every childrens/teens programme. He could joke with ANYONE back then. Of course it's very sad that he is now a damaged wreck, but come on! If he'd gone into light entertainment back then instead of trying to write songs (obviously lucrative but that's not the main thing) Ant and Dec would have been out of a job.

On 08/May/08, Anon wrote:
> On 08/May/08, Kengo wrote:
> > why is your podcast named Herrin (instead of Herring)unless yuo particularly want to be confused for Richard Herrin (the preppie hammer murderer)
>
> It's a long running joke with Herrin and Collings -- Richard drops the 'g' on his surname, and Andrew Collins takes the extra 'g' on his.

Yes the longer version of this (I was trying to be quick last night) is, as ED BAILEY points out today due to Richard Herring having started the whole thing off by mis-spelling Andrew Collins name ...

And that is also because RKH has an even longer running joke (throughout all his blogs) where he consistently mis-spell certain names deliberately. Most of the mis-spellings take an unwanted "S" at the end: Tony Blairs, etc (although Richard Branson becomes Branston as per the pickle).**

But, of course, Collins already has an "S" on the end of his name so RKH added the "g".

Which led, I guess, to Collins then removing the "g" from Herrin(g) to redress the balance.

Do you have the full picture now?!


** I also realised that this long running joke is also very clever because every time RKH wants to be a little bit rude about "Tony Blairs" or the evil "Richard Branston" he can do so with a little bit more freedom, knowing that the MIS-SPELLT public person's name is very unlikely to come up in internet search results.
(Very clever.)

On 09/May/08, Ed Bailey wrote:
> wasn't the Preppie Murderer Robert Chambers?

He was indeed. However, there was a very similar case where a man named Richard Herrin who attacked and killed his girlfriend (Bonny Garland, a Yale college senior) with a hammer.

wasn't the Preppie Murderer Robert Chambers? (I'm not obsessed with killers though). Oh and I think the deliberate "Herrin" misspelling is a running joke which started with RH deliberately spelling Andrew Collins name "Collings" to annoy him.

On 08/May/08, Kengo wrote:
> why is your podcast named Herrin (instead of Herring)unless yuo particularly want to be confused for Richard Herrin (the preppie hammer murderer)

The photos/wanking habits entry has to be one of the funniest for quite a while (not that I'm suggesting comedy is always the aim). 3-4 hrs!? You must have had a massive forearm