Mark Steyn is only nine points away from topping Harry Hutton’s Canadian asshole poll. He’s ahead of Lord Black, and only has Celine Dion to beat. While Ms Dion’s music is objectionable, she simply doesn’t have Mr Steyn’s assholishness about her.
So go and vote. If you’ve already voted, you can vote again as long as it’s more than a day since last time (this system should also be applied to elections). Oh, and boo! to the 34 miserable bastards who voted for Avril Lavigne. Sure, her music is derivative Busted-esque trash-fake-punk-pop, but she is really cute. Unlike either Dion or Steyn…
Unrelatedly, via Edward Staines‘s comment at the better-than-having-your-testicles-sandpapered-by-Avril-Lavigne Hungbunny, the best joke I’ve heard in ages: An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman walked into a bar and beat the shit out of Kilroy.
Update 25/2/04: Mark Steyn is now, officially (and with great statistical validity), Canada’s biggest asshole. Hurrah!
Or Steyn’s loose way with facts as noted in this week’s Private Eye.
Avril doesn’t count anyway as she was grown in a laboratory as part of the ongoing experiment to prove the theory that fools and their money are soon parted.
Ahhhh, Avril Lavigne, the Britney Spears for people who think they’re too cool to like Britney Spears. I think that, like so many men, you’ve confused "she is really cute" with "she is wearing panda-like eye make up". To be honest, the Rachel Weisz thing is another data point in favour of this theory.
I’ve done the business, and would remind people that if they work for a living and have an internet connection at home, they can vote for Steyn twice a day.
Rachel Weisz was the second-best thing in that comedy classic, About a Boy.
The best thing of course was Grant in that scene where the boy was singing "killing me softly", and Grant’s character saves the day by joining him playing guitar. I’ve never seen a more embarassing scene in a film. It was Tottenesque.
Dion 122
Steyn 121
It’s Mark-mentum!
I have to disagree about Rachel Weisz and place her firmly in the cute column. Although the mental picture of Sean Thomas ‘snogging’ her is almost enough to ruin it for me.
Steyn 127, Dion 122! In your (somewhat oddly shaped) face!!!
Steyn 133, Dion 123. I suggest we now start a campaign to have the poll closed instantly in the name of fairness, decency and getting the result we want.
He won! Gdonyer Mark!
Is "better than having your testicles sandpapered by Avril Lavigne" a compliment? I asked Jeeves but he got overexcited and couldn’t answer.
Interesting hour-long interview (RealPlayer format) with Mark Steyn on US cable TV – especially from 14:00 onwards.