Umberto!
…berto!
…berto!
…berto!
…berto!
Still got it.
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September 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I dont get it.
September 2nd, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Still got what?
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I get it, Dawn. He’s referring to the Italian author Umberto Eco, author of many strange and fun books, such as ‘Name of the Rose’, a medieval murder mystery set in an abbey. However, I think in this case, Cliff is referring to Eco’s book, ‘Focault’s Pendulum’, which neatly folds into the artist from this weekend’s song, Jeffrey Focault, and also into some previous entries that poke fun at the ‘cleverists’, because the book pokes fun at people who suffer from intellectual arrogance, just like Cliff does.
Does this make me a cleverist?
September 2nd, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha HA!
I get it!
MAN that was annoying me.
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:28 pm
The echo/eco thing? CLiff’s clever;)
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Dammit. I’ve been mulling this thing over all afternoon. It finally came to me over the ironing and I signed back on all smug and sure that noone else would have got it. ARGH. I bet I’m in moderation as well, so this won’t even appear until a million other people have got it.
Still, nice.
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I think Ed might be Cliff’s cleverest commenter.
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:05 pm
I’m not half so clever as people think I am. I’ve just been around a lot longer;)
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Ed - that is exactly where my head was when I thought of this post. Jeffrey Foucault… Foucault’s Pendulum… Umberto Eco… sounds like echo… “oh hey, check it out”.
To be honest, I didn’t know the book’s theme of poking fun at clever people. Had I known this, it would appear I was poking at the cleverati, but in a stupid way. Which, yes, is clever, but I can’t claim I’m bringing clever down from the inside, because I’m not smart enough. Or am I and this is all a bluff? So you have to ask yourself: “Do I feel clever?” Well, do ya?
Well spotted, though. You know, a lot of people ask me what it takes to become a member of the This Is This Platinum Club.
?
Ed R, ladies and gentlemen.
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
It’s not, is it? It can’t be. It only fucking is. Hey Wendy. Former colleague and friend Wendy back online after a
haitishepititishibiscusbreak - good to see you, if only figuratively. How are things? How did the move go?Katy - thanks. I might drop some more literary teasers in here next weekend if you fancy it.
Also, this might be exactly why I don’t get comments from anyone apart from regulars. This isn’t Cheers, apart from a bit when someone says “What do you say there, Cliffy?”
Please, please don’t be put off, lurking reader. The last thing I want is for this site to get all cliquey. Put your head above the parapet sometime and go ahead sometime. It won’t get bitten off, I promise.
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Trouble is when you start shouting out to people you forget someone. Hello Dawn, who was cool enough to pipe up as the first person to comment and not get it. You may not be accurate, but you were first, which in my line of work goes a long way.
September 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Jeffery Foucault… Michel’s often overlooked brother?
September 3rd, 2007 at 3:57 am
I think Katy probably goit it before I did, and WEndy didn’t even have to think twice, did she?
ANd I didn;’t mean that you were suffering from intellectual arrogance, Cliff, I meant you were poking fun at people who suffered from it.
My head hurts.
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:37 am
Please, please don’t be put off, lurking reader.
Cliff, how many lurking readers do you have?
I assume you keep a note on all your ’sleeping subscribers’, but would be interested to know how many people read v how many comment
September 3rd, 2007 at 8:51 am
I’m one of the lurking readers you are looking for. *waves*
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:25 am
I was lurking but didn’t get it till EdR pointed it out - though I think Wenders was about to tell me