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Monday, March 31, 2008

Great Graphs of Our Time: No 94

Iain Dale 2:37 PM

34 Comments:

At March 31, 2008 2:53 PM , Blogger Dave Cole said...

I feel duty-bound to say that 75% of this graph resembles Pac-Man.

xD.

 
At March 31, 2008 3:04 PM , Blogger Benny Austwick said...

woah i just showed this to my friend yesterday.

 
At March 31, 2008 3:33 PM , Anonymous Peter North said...

...but is crap compared to the genius of http://indexed.blogspot.com/

 
At March 31, 2008 3:48 PM , Blogger ScotsToryB said...

I tried That Once.

Never again.

The Horror! The Horror!

STB.

 
At March 31, 2008 3:50 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

You're showing your age old chap. I suspect many of your readers will not be familiar with Meatlof's song

 
At March 31, 2008 4:25 PM , Anonymous verity said...

That is hysterical! Thank you!

 
At March 31, 2008 4:42 PM , Anonymous off to conservative home said...

Well at least your postings appeal to Verity.

 
At March 31, 2008 5:23 PM , Anonymous Cath said...

Anon 3.50 - Are you saying Iain's readers will be too old or too young for Bat 2? Its only about 15yrs ago.

Seriously depressed now :-(

 
At March 31, 2008 5:27 PM , Anonymous Verity said...

Peter North - She's very funny.

3:50 - Meat Loaf is a cult. Even I have heard of this song and I loathe rock and roll.

 
At March 31, 2008 5:38 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Meat Loaf is NOT rock and roll, he's bad pop.

 
At March 31, 2008 5:39 PM , Blogger Matt said...

The graph came from the recent b3ta.com competition on graphs.

See: http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/graphs/

There's a lot more amusement to be had.

 
At March 31, 2008 5:45 PM , Blogger Adrian Yalland said...

Does anyone actually know what it is that Meatloaf wouldn't do for love?

I think we should should be told!

 
At March 31, 2008 7:24 PM , Blogger David Anthony said...

I'm sorry, I thought this read "Things Iain Dale would do to get onto Question Time"

... but then, only you know what That is...

 
At March 31, 2008 7:26 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

matt thanks for that

to my shame I found the "things that would impress Shania Twain" made me laugh loudest

Adrian - you dont wanna know

 
At March 31, 2008 7:27 PM , Blogger David Anthony said...

...saying that, maybe David Dimbleby also knows what That is... ;)

 
At March 31, 2008 7:39 PM , Anonymous Jamie said...

anyone else thinking slow news day? :)

oh and i agree with anon that it's bad pop.

oh and iain, the picture link at the top of your main blog page is broken.

 
At March 31, 2008 8:12 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

VERY slow news day.

Wasn't this in a Focus leaflet in North Norfolk? Wrong sort of chart maybe.

 
At March 31, 2008 8:20 PM , Blogger Adrian Yalland said...

Annon 7.26: God, it must be bad - vote Labour maybe? I wouldn't do that for love or money.

Well, money maybe.

But it would have to be a lot of money! We're talking Ecclostone-esque amounts!

 
At March 31, 2008 8:21 PM , Anonymous verity said...

5:38 - Oh. OK. I definitely hate rock and roll, though.

People should go to Peter North's link. The cartoonist is quite funny.

 
At March 31, 2008 8:27 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you think Meat isn't rock but bad pop then you haven't listened to Bat 3 yet, which is, in my humble (and anonymous) opinion, the best Bat yet.

Listen to The Monster is Loose, Blind as a Bat, and even that cover of the Celine Dion song and tell me that isn't rock and roll!!!

 
At March 31, 2008 9:12 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is this song lyric

"I will swim in the Red River but I will not take a drink."

I think its means you'd vote for Labour but you wouldnt actually join the party???

 
At March 31, 2008 9:53 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

So Verity says that she loathes rock and roll?

Well that shatters the image I had of her as the original "rock chick."

Twinset and pearls, instead?

 
At March 31, 2008 10:10 PM , Anonymous verity said...

Celine Dionne is worse than rock and roll.

 
At March 31, 2008 10:49 PM , Anonymous jd said...

His wife appears on one of his albums, credited as 'Leslie Loaf'.

 
At March 31, 2008 11:14 PM , Anonymous verity said...

9:53 Do twin sets still exist? I thought they went the way of the bustle.

 
At April 01, 2008 1:00 AM , Anonymous anonymous 9.53 said...

Verity:

They still exist in my local enclave of the Conservative Party (which is also known as the Ladies section of my golf club.)

Admit it, Verity, I'll bet you have a nice string of pearls in your wardrobe....they're the mark of a lady.

P.S. You're right about that ghastly Canadian Celine Dionne.

 
At April 01, 2008 2:54 AM , Anonymous verity said...

1:00 a.m. A brave man, and I assume you are a man because your conclusions are so inept, who makes a leap of assumption about the contents of woman's wardrobe and jewellery box.

Pearls. Icky. Never.

Please go away somewhere and confine yourself to the contents of your own wardrobe and bathroom - and thank you for not sharing them with us.

 
At April 01, 2008 10:48 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

That has long been a mystery.

But I like Meatloaf. And rock and roll. And Celine Dionne.

 
At April 01, 2008 10:51 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

So Verity confirms what most of us already suspected....a lady she is not.

 
At April 01, 2008 2:12 PM , Blogger asquith said...

Listen to some decent stuff like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.

 
At April 01, 2008 2:50 PM , Anonymous jd said...

Anon

How could you possibly suggest that Verity is the sort of woman who would like a pearl necklace!?

I'm shocked.

 
At April 01, 2008 3:24 PM , Anonymous verity said...

10:51 - You are either an American or affecting to be one. We do not use the term "lady" in its fawning provincial American sense.

If Celine Dionne's all we've got to trash, I'm off this boring thread on which silly men, who are far from au fait courture-wise, put their put forward their uninformed, outdated thoughts about the contents of the wardrobe of a woman they have never seen. They're so behind the times that they don't even know what a good fashion insult would be these days.

 
At April 01, 2008 4:00 PM , Blogger Adrian Yalland said...

Asquith - I am with you on Iron Maiden! I would add Pink Floyd as well.

But I really don't understand why all the harsh words over Celine Dion! I quite like her.

I'm sorry - but someone has to say it!

 
At April 01, 2008 4:18 PM , Anonymous emma lambert said...

Verity, I must say that I'm awed by your obvious superiority. Why can't I be like you?

 

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