More grist for the mill

Of the last 100 referrals to Drinks-After-Work, something like 97 of them have been Google searches about the celebrity drugs scandal. And most of the googlers have little or no doubt about who they think is involved; two names in particular keep on coming up over and over again.

Foot-In-Mouth pointed me in the direction of Hard News which pointed me in the direction of David Farrar's miserable excuse for a blog which pointed me in the direction of the NZ Herald story about which notes that Aaron Bhatnagar had to shut down comments on his blog post on the topic after people kept posting guesses about the identities of the two celebs; what they omitted but the same story on STUFF did mention is that the poor wee duckie apparently got "back from several hours of meetings" and found "all sorts of unsavoury comments made" and so was moved to shut down comments on the thread in question.

But did he stop there? Did he fuck. As he writes "anyone posting names will have their IP addresses recorded by me in the event that someone important wants to know who they are." Which was as effective a way as any of nominating himself as Cock of the Week. Apparently he's also a member of the National Party.

Anyway I guess someone ought to tell these guys at What-the-Funk - surely as unlikely a hotbed of libel as anywhere.

It was actually a real pity that Aaron Bhatnagar disabled comments on his posting, because I almost expired in a paroxysm of hilarity (o how I do love literary cliches... sometimes) when I read the note from peterquixote, who said (and in the saying so provides the same Mr. Bhatnagar with some real Cock of the Week competition):

Can anyone give a clue, [sic] why would [sic] celebrity on good income ruin his/her life this way? Or are they cheats and low life [sic] from the start?

Peter, Peter, Peter. O my god, where to start. You say so little and yet you say so much.

I dunno. Is this shit even interesting any more?

At least Damien Christie in his Cracker blog had the sense to keep stumm and not post any of his trademark irrelevant incomprehensible bullshit; it would surely have only annoyed me even more.