Eccles Boycott.
The problem is that we don't show respect to the vain and proud: this naturally grates with the vain and proud community. Also we attempt to make jokes (sometimes not very good ones), which offend the humourless community. St Mary had the same problem: compose a Magnificat in which you claim that God puts down the mighty from their seats, and you get hate mail from the mighty, claiming that they will certainly hold their seats at the next election.
Mighty indeed - but is his seat in danger?
Now, if you are in a high-profile position and call yourself a Catholic, while putting forward doctrines that are simply heretical, then Eccles may poke fun at this fact. If you are an atheist who spends his life attacking religions and their adherents, you may just get a little prod in return. As a politician, enact legislation which is an attack on Christian values, and this will be pointed out. If you are aggressive but patently absurd, then the best way to counter you is by mockery? No?
No. Let's attack Eccles's blog. Oh look, someone has recommended one of his posts. DO THEY KNOW that 4 months ago some idiot posted a nasty comment on the thread below his blog, which Eccles deleted the same day? This proves that Eccles is a nasty "Bernard Manning" type, who does not scruple to curse and swear, who is racist and sexist, and who probably eats babies.
Eccles's lunch.
Oh look, someone on Twitter has set up a "mock-puppet" parody account. That must have been Eccles, as he does parodies on his blog occasionally. Admittedly it doesn't SOUND like Eccles, but then he is a master of all styles and all languages - in his spare time he no doubt runs a Korean parody account mocking Kim Jong-un.
"It may not sound like Eccles, but I've got an ear for these things."
Eccles has written a post pointing out the absurd attempts by journalists to pigeon-hole the new pope: let's tell everyone it was an attack on Pope Francis! Throw mud at Eccles, you know it makes sense!
So let's make today Eccles Boycott Day. Don't read his blog, and harass anyone who tries to. All right?
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ReplyDeleteWe still love you!
ReplyDeletethere's still a place at our bird table for you!
ReplyDeleteDear Sir,
ReplyDeleteIs it a coincidence that you post a picture of a saucepan surrounded by vegetables on the very day that scoundrel Frere Rabit, who has admitted being the author of the notorious Twitter account that cruelly mocked a self-important church personage, has posted a recipe for ratatouille on his pointless and irrelevant brotherlapin blog?
Although claims have been made that you and he are different authors, living in entirely different European locations, what are we to make of the fact that a Ryanair flight landed in Alicante shortly before the ratatouille appeared on the rabit blog and a return flight to Stansted landed shortly before the suspiciously coincidental ingredients for ratatouille appeared on your blog?
In these days of low cost air travel, it is easy to see how the deception is done. I am disgusted that you think you can hoodwink intelligent people by using cheap flights. The game is up.
Yours etc.,
Magniloquent of Tunbridge Wells
I am boycotting this blog today.
ReplyDeleteThis comment was posted as an act of parody of my action.
And this one as a parody of your parody of Eccles' parody. Other than that, I won't be posting anywhere else till after midnight.
DeleteI never take sides. As Eccles would say it's too complickated
ReplyDeleteMy hat is off in your honor, Eccles. Well-said!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as a member of the differently-eared community, I would point out that we still have five bottles of green ink and a gross of tuppenny stamps left over from our campaign against Enid Blyton.
ReplyDeleteIn an act of solidarity with all of our LCWR LGBTQ LULZSEC LDS LGM LLGC and LRICBM sisters I have decided to girlcott this rood and norty blog until the next time I log in.
ReplyDeleteDear Sir,
DeleteYour parody of equal rights group acronyms betrays your deep and irrational loathing for the simply human justice sought by people and homosexuals who want to make good the deficiencies of a creator who was building in a pre-scientific age. That is why ACTA supports the right of men to have wombs.
Yours etc.,
Colonel (Retd.) Priscilla Hysterus,
Rights Officer, Tunbridge Wells ACTA
I prefer your bad jokes, anyway.
ReplyDeleteBeing of advanced years I am not a Twitterer (That’s only partly true. I have been called a Twit…), a Facebooker (having a face ‘made for radio’ - like a certain US blogger), YouTuber (though I did go tubing once…), MySpacer (despite occupying more space as time goes on…) or any of the other unsociable social networks, I expect some of the references are lost on me (I do get lost at times also…).
ReplyDeleteThus my contribution to the boycott…and to say:
You da Eccles, man!
Hum, not a very good boycott. De blogg got nearly 2000 hits yesterday. Not a record, but higher than usual.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments.
Sorry! I missed your boycott.
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