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"Given that America has supplied the bulk of my most meaningful relationships over the years - the educational jingles of Sesame Street, the valuable lessons imparted by Little House On the Prairie (total blindness need be no barrier to making your own weight in pokebonnets every evening), the inspirational heroism of Buck Rogers, the subtle historical revisionism of The A-Team, the bittersweet viewings of Joe 90 and the dying art of puppeteering, and of course the glorious decade that belonged to Friends and Frasier - it is only right that from there should also emerge the answer to the question of what to do when these relationships fail."

Joe 90 was a 1968 British production by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for Lew Grade's ATV, you incomprehensible fucking moron!

Clearly it's too much trouble for Lucy Mangan to bother researching her articles, witness the "I never went to the London Planetarium but I'm still sad it's closing" piece that I commented on at the time, but to lack the journalistic integrity to not even bother to quickly run it through Wikipedia is just very, very sad.

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Date: 2006-09-13 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com
Ah, Lucy Mangan. Admit it - you'd be disappointed if she wrote an article that wasn't utter drivel, wouldn't you?

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Date: 2006-09-13 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] titanic-days.livejournal.com
It would be quite a shock. I actually like a bit of pointless newspaper 'lifestyle' nonsensica more than I let on, but getting your research wrong turns me off very quickly.

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Date: 2006-09-13 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cherrybomb07.livejournal.com
Alex, please email all your LJ entries on Lucy Managn to the Grauniad editor? I'd so love to know what they come up with... And you could always suggest your services on a contractual basis.

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Date: 2006-09-13 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cazling.livejournal.com
Grauniad fact-checkers strike again!

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Date: 2006-09-14 10:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sophie10.livejournal.com
Even I knew that...

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