That's who, that is?

[j4]

How can anybody not want a book by DAVID BADDIEL'S MUM?

Comments

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

ObBaddielTrivia: the rabbi in Newcastle when I grew up was Moshe Baddiel, who used to refer to David Baddiel as "my naughty cousin". :o)

[(Anonymous)]

If your mum doesn't, it's the only thing she doesn't want.

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

She lives in Cambridge, next door to my friend Daisy's Mum.

[liv]

How on earth did you get hold of that?! (David Baddiel's mum is much cooler than he usually portrays her in his comedy act, mind you, despite the weird fetish for golf stuff.)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Crikey! Maybe I should get you to get her to sign it... :-)

[j4.livejournal.com]

I rescued it from Oxfam... and my getting hold of the book seems far less bizarre to me than the fact that suddenly everybody on my friends list seems to know David Baddiel's mum!! :-)

[liv]

Ah, she lived in Cambridge for like 50 years, and she's one of those people who get involved with the local community. In my case I know her through the synagogue.

[imc.livejournal.com]

Hmm, dunno. You could try asking the seller. :-)

[barnacle.livejournal.com]

I can't help but feel that a judicious rewording of the text might help y-, um, the seller to pitch the book to people who like golf—the book's intended audience, after all—instead of the David Baddiel completists, who I've no doubt constitute vast hordes but are probably respecting the great man's dislike of the sport and staying away on that basis.

PS: the your-mum comment up there was me. My browser at work plays funny buggers sometimes, he buckpassed deftly.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ach, it was just funnier to list it that way. Think of it as 15p's worth of harmless amusement for me. :-)

Anybody looking for books on golf would still have found it, anyway. And since Oxfam had already thrown it away I don't feel like I'm doing the book a big disservice. I will probably just give it away on ucam.adverts.crap or something.

And I knew the your-mum comment was you, you big mummerer!