Friday, October 15, 2004

The day Kilroy lost his mind (again)

Oh, this is fun (via Europhobia): Kilroy threatens to sue the webmaster of UKIndependence.org. From the B3TA newsletter:
: KILROY THREATENS TO SUE
Over silly web gag

A few months back we brought you Mystery Bob's
little bit of mischief. He'd taken a bit of
footage from a comedy DVD and stuck it online
with a domain name suspiciously similar to
the UK Independence Party.

They've got in touch. And they're not happy.

Tony Bennett, Research Assistant to Robert
Kilroy-Silk writes:

"I represent Mr Kilroy-Silk and the U.K.
Independence Party. You are advised that your
site will be reported to the Police and we are
currently taking the advice of a libel barrister
as to its contents. I am a Solicitor as well as
a research assistant.

"You may wish to consider removing the site
forthwith."

So the battle is on. Should Mystery Bob
capitulate to legal threats? Or should he
stand strong and proud - free to mock silly
old fools who spout racist crap against Arabs?
I can't help but laugh and wonder just what the permatanned fool thinks he's doing - the video on the site is from Chris Morris' Jam and thus, has been seen on national TV and available to buy in the shops for a good year or so - I have a copy sitting on my shelf right now. Now, I'm not a lawyer, but surely the person they should be threatening with legal action is the originator of this (Morris) or the broadcasting comany that put it on the air (Channel 4)? Or have they realised that would be messing with the big boys, so they're just threatening website owners instead?

1 Comments:

Blogger James Miller said...

My wife always shivers and squirms when she sees Kilroy. Back in 1966 she was a student at Liverpool University and he was her tutor. I remember meeting her after a tutorial with him and she smelt like an ashtray from his Capstan Full Strength. I also remember her being so upset over her housing problems, for which of course Kilroy did not show any help as any good tutor would. I also think Jon Snow's comments on Kilroy at the time are very relevant.

I don't think he has changed much except for the smoking! He seems to me to still be as arrogant and caring!

9:23 PM  

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