GAUCHE: SO FAREWELL, THEN, MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

7 January 2007

SO FAREWELL, THEN, MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

The BBC News Online obituary of "TV's Magnus Magnusson" – a respected broadcaster, writer and journalist – appears to have been written by Private Eye's spoof teenage poet E. J. Thribb:

Mr Magnusson
Who had a wife
And four children
Was known
For his catchphrase

"I've started
So I'll finish"

See the excellent Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Republic blog for something a bit more serious.

Update
Here is Thribb at the top of his game in the current Eye:

So. Farewell
Then Magnus
Magnusson.

Famed inquisitor of
Mastermind.

Your catchphrase was
"I've started so I'll
Finish."

And now
you have.

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