The Phil; Are They Pulling Our Legs?

Kappar

I was in the GMB yesterday and was reading their magazine in it they claim to be getting, amung others, the following guests:-

Senator John McCain
Pamela Anderson
Bob Geldof
Ron Jeremy
Bertie Ahern
John Cleese
Justin Timberlake

Now if I recall corretly the highest profile person last year was some guy from Dawson's Creek, Why the sudden increase in high profile names?

Agent Smith

i personally think they are pulling people leg's...

Kappar

Now that i have had time to think about it I think that they're being truthful or at least a little optimistic. Also If i recall they had Bono in last year too and i supoose he's pretty famous. I'll see if i can get more info tomorrow.

strawberry

You're completely and utterly confused. The Hist got Joshua Jackson in last year. The Phil got Salman Rushdie in, whom Bono accompanied, which you have to admit is at least as impressive if not more so than John McCain. They also had in FW deClerk (former South African president). The Hist had Bertie Ahern in. Thus I don't really see why they wouldn't get all of those people on the list to speak, except maybe JT but you never know.

Et voila..... no leg pulling.

Crash

I would've loved to go to the salman rushdie one actually - pity i only heard about it at the last minute

Kappar

strawberry wrote:

You're completely and utterly confused. The Hist got Joshua Jackson in last year. The Phil got Salman Rushdie in, whom Bono accompanied, which you have to admit is at least as impressive if not more so than John McCain. They also had in FW deClerk (former South African president). The Hist had Bertie Ahern in. Thus I don't really see why they wouldn't get all of those people on the list to speak, except maybe JT but you never know.

Et voila..... no leg pulling.

Thank for clearing that up for me, I do remeber all that actually when you remind me. I think what seems different this year is not the fame factor because as you say most of the people last year were famous this year it's a different type of famous if that makes any sense this year seems to be pop star type famous.

aodh_rua

Every year the list is half a wish list, half serious. There's no reason not to think Bertie might pop in and the papers reported the Ron Jeremy booking. John Cleese probably costs too much - he's the highest paid speaker in Britain apparently, although a trip to Trinity might remind him of his Collegiate beginnings. Bob Gelfof would be a definite runner, but Justin Timberlake seems a bit out there, much like Pamela Anderson. And then John McCain - maybe in the new year, assuming he's in the area for something else - which is usually how these things come about. Personally, I'd love to hear him.

Pet

I got my philsoc and histsoc rags today, they have talk about them too.

Chick

i got loads stuff including that magazine from them in the post today too. cant remember if it was phil or hist but one of them said theyd have ronan o'gara, if thats true i am so there!

Maoltuile

Kappar wrote:

I was in the GMB yesterday and was reading their magazine in it they claim to be getting, amung others, the following guests:-

Senator John McCain
Pamela Anderson
Bob Geldof
Ron Jeremy
Bertie Ahern
John Cleese
Justin Timberlake

Now if I recall corretly the highest profile person last year was some guy from Dawson's Creek, Why the sudden increase in high profile names?

...and when they grow up, they all want to be PD's. Pity them.

ApeXaviour

Shh... PD's are cool. They wanna get rid of pub/club closing-time restrictions, increase education funding and tackle the car insurance problem. I'm not excessively political by anymeans but they got my vote..

Nietzschean

They wanna get rid of pub/club closing-time restrictions, increase education funding and tackle the car insurance problem.

Hrmmm does that not sound like some idealistic politics tripe to anyone else?

Translated into normal speak, yes we have fuk all male voters between the ages of 18 - 26 and there is their wishlist on a platter.

ApeXaviour

Ok well at least their education banter is sound.. They are the ones who we have to thank when it comes us not havin to pay fees or our reg fee being €500 euro more than it is.. They took their time granted but they got up an opposed big-bro FF when Noel Dempsey was about to implement that. Their stance on education is very very clear. That's why FF kept one of their TD's as minister of ed, cos its one of the areas where the coalition's view differs so much.

sceptre

ApeXaviour wrote:

Shh... PD's are cool. They wanna get rid of pub/club closing-time restrictions,

Erm, isn't it McDowell as Minister for Injustice and Inequality who's been pulling the opening hours back?

Chick

so is it sorted out yet? ive kinda been on a diff planet not really payin
attention the da news :S

desertcircus

"...and when they grow up, they all want to be PD's. Pity them."

What halluginogens are you on, and can I please have some?

The President of the Phil is a manic left conspiracy theorist who has more Chomsky books than most of us have pubic hairs. He's so far from being a PD it's funny. Last year's President was a Fine Gaeler, former Labour. Of the people on Council this year, the only political affiliation of any of them is either Sinn Fein or Labour. I can't think of anyone in the society who's a PD, and I'm on first name terms with every one of them. All I can imagine is that once again, someone has confused the Hist (slightly dreary) with the Phil (the greatest and oldest society in all existence, bar the almighty DURNS). There are PDs in DebatingBoreSoc, but none that I know of in the almighty Oldest Undergraduate Society On Earth.

Not partisan at all...

Chick

what does partisan mean?

Haunter

Chick wrote:

what does partisan mean?

It's a type of cheese.

sleepingbeauty

one of them said theyd have ronan o'gara, if thats true i am so there!

ronan eh? hrm might be there myself......we went to see joshua jackson for the same reason last year hehe

Chick

we can go together canvas, lol pop in to see him

Agent Smith

now lets be honest... all you girls want to meet
Ron Jeremy the most......

Chick

eugh i think ill pass on him :S

Chick

say agent, when did you move from killiney to baghdad...?
mustve been one hell of a trip:eek:

Pet

agent smith wrote:

now lets be honest... all you girls want to meet
Ron Jeremy the most......

D'ya reckon he'd show me his mickey if I asked?

I mean, if it's as big as it's meant to be...

Agent Smith

as a agent, i can move anywhere in the matrix in a split second

Chick

pet you might be in luck if you catch him at the right moment, ya never know!

Agent Smith

who catch who in the what now?

Chick

see pets last post up above

Pet

Chick wrote:

pet you might be in luck if you catch him at the right moment, ya never know!

Hehehe, I'll stalk him to the toilets and then try and sneak a peek.

John

Pet wrote:

Hehehe, I'll stalk him to the toilets and then try and sneak a peek.

I'm sure if you google for it you'll find it

ApeXaviour

You mean yis haven't seen it already!!!?? Man that chap is in so many pornos it's not even funny, where yis bin? in a CAVE!?