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Attila the Stockbroker Diary: December 14, 2024
The bard fumes at inaccurate nomenclature and picks his musical highlights of 2024
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WONDERFUL time on tour for the last few weeks: West Midlands, Scotland, Germany, East Midlands. Time and tide wait for no-one, and they caught up with me recently on the front page of the Isle of Bute News following my gig there. It was very well-intentioned and complimentary but the headline chilled me to the core. 

“Veteran comedian wows Rothesay crowd”

Now, I am not a fan of either the V or C words, and to see them combined in such a way was too much. 

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