TCW has been conducting an entertaining competition - The Most Useless National Treasure.
TCW competition result: The Most Useless National Treasure is . . .
WE ASKED you to nominate the Most Useless National Treasure, and we gave you possibilities in the form of Angela Rippon and Sir Grayson Perry.
In response you sent in a range of suggestions from the ranks of the rich and pointless, all of them rating high for lack of merit and/or off-switch levels of ability to irritate.
In a hard field from which to pick a winner, we turned to the Chocolate Teapot Scale, which measures not just prominence and talent to annoy, but takes into account general failure to give an answer to the question: Daddy, what is that man for?
This works against candidates with real talents or achievements.
It's not easy to disagree with any of the suggestions, but read the whole piece as a reminder of how many Useless National Treasures we have. There is a worthy winner though.
A re-imagined quote from Dune:
ReplyDelete"I must not twinkle. Fame is the mind-killer. Fame is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fame and I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fame has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
DJ - that's a fine re-imagined quote. Some do manage to permit fame to pass over them but many don't, or show no sign that they have managed it.
ReplyDeleteExcellent decision. I was very disappointed that he allowed his name to given to the new Royal Research Ship. He should have washed his hands of this snub to a democratic choice. A very rich hypocrite.
ReplyDeleteDoonhamer - yes, a very rich hypocrite. Pretty creepy too I reckon, that husky catch in his voice whenever something sad is supposed to be going on - often from a vaguely anthropomorphic viewpoint.
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