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Coyne, Wells, and as many as 308 very special guests

by Paul Wells on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 1:04pm - 13 Comments

Near the end of our latest podcast (now with more-inferior-than-ever video! No worries, the tech people have checked our Skype settings and next week we’ll be much less jerky) (well, the video will be less jerky; we’ll be the same jerks we always were) (but I digress), Andrew Coyne and I make a very rash offer vis-a-vis tis whole prorogation business. I think it’s only fair to point out that I’m the one with the big idea and the big mouth. In this as in most things, Andrew is mostly innocent.

But he did come up with “prorogative.” Now there’s a cringe-worthy pun.

Tags: Coyne v. Wells, perogies, self-promotion

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dede

Tech who only make matters worse, where did you get them, CBC?
http://intensedebate.com/people/Inkless Inkless

No no no: they make things better, when we let them. Well, Jon does.
Anon

Where would you host it — virtually? At 24 Sussex? At the GG's residence? Or at the Olympics itself?
http://intensedebate.com/people/LynnTO LynnTO

I suggest you hold an orb and scepter relay across the country, and have each MP who intends to participate in your red carpet event run the scepter for 308 meters…or something like that.

And be sure to wrap it up on January 26th, the four-year-anniversary of the Conservatives' election (if memory serves), whereupon you have a giant irony party, complete with pun-filled hors d'oeuvres (a thousand cold cuts, anyone?).
http://intensedebate.com/people/jolyon jolyon

"I suggest you hold an orb and scepter relay across the country"

I have not watched podcast yet but I am curious now to know what they talk about that makes you suggest "an orb and scepter relay across the country". I will to have to watch and find out, I guess.

I think orb and scepter relays sound freakin' awesome, maybe we can arrange them regardless.
http://intensedebate.com/people/Babbler Babbler

Video quality isn't a big problem for me. I mostly consume "video podcast" or "vlogcasts" or whatever stupid name for them like how a consume regular podcasts – I just listen to them. Audio is good enough for me.

So sorry, Mr. Wells and Mr. Coyne, you're just not petty enough to stare at for twenty minutes or so, and I could use that time do someting productive, like playing internet tetris.
jvp

No, from Dion's video team!
http://intensedebate.com/people/Inkless Inkless

I resent that! We're more than petty enough. We work hard for the petty, dammit.
http://arsenisms.blogspot.com/ Fat Arse

re: "We work hard for the petty, dammit."

Ah, and there's the rub! Maybe you should be working for ALL your readers… not just the petty?
Dot

Hey, I don't want to get caught up in game rules, but if only the opposition parties show up as invitees, isn't this realistically going to become one giant game of Jeopardy! with all participants required to answer in the form of a question?

In which case – of Wells and Coyne – who will be Alex Trebec, and who will be Johnny Gilbert? Perhaps a moustache growing contest between the two protagonists for the top spot, online voting next after the next vlog.

http://intensedebate.com/people/Inkless Inkless

Can I be Andy Richter? There's gotta be a way we can make him fit the whole thing.

Lord Kitchener's Own

I love the optimism of the title. "As many as 308 very special guests…"

If the Tories actually came, would that make it a de facto sitting of Parliament? LOL
Lord Kitchener's Own

Everybody here is petty.