{"id":119,"date":"2006-02-07T19:18:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2006-04-18T17:14:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T16:14:28","slug":"dear-donkey-noel-edmonds-ffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/dear-donkey-noel-edmonds-ffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Donkey &#8211; Noel Edmonds? FFS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>> Dear Donkey,<\/p>\n<p>> After the recent success of *[Deal or no Deal][]*, do you think Noel Edmonds will make it back onto primetime TV?<\/p>\n<p>> Anon<\/p>\n<p>[deal or no deal]: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deal_or_No_Deal_%28UK%29<\/p>\n<p>**<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/donkeysm.jpg\" width=\"52\" height=\"56\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Donkey\" \/>Donkey says:**<\/p>\n<p>I recognise you. It&#8217;s been a long time since I was sat in this particular seat, typing at this particular keyboard, but something about you seems familiar. And if you are who I think you are, and I think you are because I recognise your email address, then I have to say this: you&#8217;ve let yourself go a bit, haven&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, what&#8217;s this *Deal or No Deal?*<\/p>\n<p>Rhetorical question &#8211; I&#8217;m not incapable of searching Wikipedia &#8211; but you&#8217;re watching shows that I haven&#8217;t even heard of. That either means that you&#8217;re cooler than me by a factor of a million, or dumber than me by a factor of a million. We can rule out the first using the Laws of Physics, and we can deduce that the latter is highly likely using the Laws of Noel Edmonds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d answer your question, but my bale of hay is ready. Maybe I&#8217;ll come back to this dumbass query after dinner.<\/p>\n<p>On second thoughts&#8230; no.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/scripts\/emaildonkey.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ncreateEmailLink();\n\/\/--><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> Dear Donkey, > After the recent success of *[Deal or no Deal][]*, do you think Noel Edmonds will make it back onto primetime TV? > Anon [deal or no deal]: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deal_or_No_Deal_%28UK%29 **Donkey says:** I recognise you. It&#8217;s been a long time since I was sat in this particular seat, typing at this particular keyboard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dear-donkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}