Comments on: Forget It Jacques, It’s Clearstream

By: smellfungus

smellfungus — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:28:34 +0000

Gergorin to be sure, my dear Jaume. Thanx for yr most opportune rectification. One is indeed a fatuous, dyslectic sort of pisspot to have called the stout kettle black in the 1st place.

Yrs abjectly, Smellfungus.

By: Antoni Jaume

Antoni Jaume — Fri, 26 May 2006 17:24:16 +0000

The chap is called GERGORIN.

DSW

By: Smellfungus

Smellfungus — Fri, 26 May 2006 05:39:23 +0000

Though the Affaire Clearstream is
intricate to a degree, getting the
right name of the central actor in it ought it not ought not to be beyond the
powers of a careful writer.

The chap is called GREGORIN, as it happens,
happens – a gent difficult to pin
down, no doubt, but decidedly not
of Armenian ancestry for all that, as
as Mr Tom Scudder might be misled
into supposing by the breezy piece
he has taken on faith.

A captious point? Hmm… maybe.

Yrs etc., DR SMELLFUNGUS

By: claus vistesen

claus vistesen — Tue, 16 May 2006 03:00:18 +0000

Awesome round-up Alex … thank you . I visited Le Monde’s webpage devoted to Clearstream but I could not be bothered to churn through the material. Now that your post is up, I won’t have to!

And yes, French scandals are really something of their own. At first hand, some of the accusations seem a bit kamikaze (spelling?) but then again, if you go down better do it with a bang eh?

By: David Weman

David Weman — Sun, 14 May 2006 22:10:04 +0000

Hum, I can think of a few bigger scandals than that.

By: Tom Scudder

Tom Scudder — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:15:18 +0000

So, just to indulge the Lebanese aspect of the case, is Gergorian Armenian-by-way-of-Lebanon or some other variety of Armenian?

By: French Swede the Rootless Vegetable

French Swede the Rootless Vegetable — Sun, 14 May 2006 16:18:31 +0000

“French Swede the Rootless Vegetable” wrote the above.

By: French Swede the Rootless

French Swede the Rootless — Sun, 14 May 2006 16:11:53 +0000

Now that’s what I call a scandal!

Intricate as a le Carré novel! Corrupt as XVIth century popes! Byzantine as… as the Byzantine court, duh.

It only things it lacks though is the nefariousness of threats to rights and liberty of the Stasi & Gulag scandals from the other side of the pond.

What pathetically passes for the biggest scandal since WWII where I’m living is some minister buying a Toblerone bar with her parliamentary credit card… Boooo-ring!

Why was that I’ve only ever voted in Swedish elections and never in French ones again?