When the actual columnists are on holiday…
Dr Mumbo is aware that it may be a tad early to call, but there’s already an early contender for column of the year in today’s Daily Telegraph.
In a piece from Harrie Bantick spread across page 20 and 21, he describes how he:
- Had a haircut: “trendy, modern”;
- Got a flat battery on his phone;
- Had to use a payphone to call the person he was meeting “I had run out of coins. And the machine didn’t take notes!”;
- Went to a pharmacy to get some change;
- Bumped into his mother
Dr Mumbo hopes he hasn’t spoiled the pleasure of reading the column by giving away the key developments.
The column should give heart to anybody who ever hoped to be published in one of Australia’s top circulating newspapers, but wrote it off on the grounds that they weren’t interesting enough.
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I can’t believe he bumped into his mother…. astonishing
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Roll up Roll up!
Step right up kids, and have a go, how many times did the editor remove the words ‘like’, ‘OMG’ and ‘sigh’ before this was published? Go on have a guess….
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A quick Google and we can find out that “Harrie Bantick was a 2010 VCE high achiever”.
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So does that mean he just finished school in 2010? And I thought there were lots of young people in advertising!
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Bilge.
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Would Harrie Bantick be related to Christopher Bantick, another Melbourne writer, by any chance? cough *nepotism*cough
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My goodness, what has happened to journalism? I am sure that a fifth grader write a better technology article than that. Using public phones must be better than getting brain damage from the mobile phone.
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