Thursday, March 17, 2005
Take tat
If you visited the London International book fair a few days ago and were amazed by the amount of tat you are given or can get there, try looking at this from way back in 2002 for a record.
"A medical editor has smashed the British, Commonwealth and European record for
collecting freebies from an international expo centre. Moving with speed and
guile across all 72 exhibition stands at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference
Centre (SECC), Nigel Graber collected over 150 items of pointless tat, all
advertising miracle HIV drugs. His record haul included four clocks, a rucksack,
38 pens, 11 golf balls, a calendar, a CD wallet, a twig-shaped pencil, a
clockwork boxing fish, half a plastic mouse, 12 musical condoms and a car
headrest carved roughly in the shape of Brian Blessed's mother. A spokeman for
SECC said, "This was a magnificent performance, and we're particularly proud
that Nigel achieved it on Scottish soil. I have never seen a man hell-bent on
collecting utter shite move at such speed." Nigel Graber
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Somebody posted it to me and I thought it was great, just reminded me of all those Exhibition scroungers.
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