Life imitating art
I went to see Dave Gorman at the G Live in Guildford last night. (I'm not sure, but I think this is the first time I've ever gone to a comedy gig.)
The show is called Dave Gorman -Gets Straight To The Point (The Powerpoint), and it starts with a Powerpoint display with Gorman doing a voice-over about how great it is to be in his favourite town. The slide that comes up says, "Insert name of town here before show". It's an old joke, and I've used it myself.
After the show, G Live sent me an e-mail asking me to rate the experience. The e-mail looked OK on Thunderbird, but on this computer I archive all my e-mails in Ameol, an antiquated piece of software developed especially for Cix in the nineties (if not earlier) that expects all e-mails to be text only. There, the e-mail read: "We hope very much that you enjoyed XXXXXX. Here at the XXXXX".
Curiously, this is the second time this has happened to me with something Dave Gorman related. I got his book Too Much Information for Christmas. One of his observations in that is after following Chas and Dave on Facebook (or maybe it was Twitter), he received a message saying, "I see you are interested in Chas and Dave. You might also like to follow Kylie Minogue." Nobody in the history of the world, he suggested, has looked at someone's record collection and said, "I see you have records by Chas and Dave. I bet you like Kylie Minogue, too."
After reading the book, I entered it into Goodreads. It came up with other suggestions based on my liking this book. One of them was "Programming for Dummies".
The show is called Dave Gorman -Gets Straight To The Point (The Powerpoint), and it starts with a Powerpoint display with Gorman doing a voice-over about how great it is to be in his favourite town. The slide that comes up says, "Insert name of town here before show". It's an old joke, and I've used it myself.
After the show, G Live sent me an e-mail asking me to rate the experience. The e-mail looked OK on Thunderbird, but on this computer I archive all my e-mails in Ameol, an antiquated piece of software developed especially for Cix in the nineties (if not earlier) that expects all e-mails to be text only. There, the e-mail read: "We hope very much that you enjoyed XXXXXX. Here at the XXXXX".
Curiously, this is the second time this has happened to me with something Dave Gorman related. I got his book Too Much Information for Christmas. One of his observations in that is after following Chas and Dave on Facebook (or maybe it was Twitter), he received a message saying, "I see you are interested in Chas and Dave. You might also like to follow Kylie Minogue." Nobody in the history of the world, he suggested, has looked at someone's record collection and said, "I see you have records by Chas and Dave. I bet you like Kylie Minogue, too."
After reading the book, I entered it into Goodreads. It came up with other suggestions based on my liking this book. One of them was "Programming for Dummies".