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"I think that's complete bollocks on every single possible level," thundered Humphrys in response last night.
Campbell, who was standing next to Kelly when the call came, divides stories he doesn't like into three categories: "bollocks," "complete bollocks," and "bollocks on stilts".
More than once – for example, when he speculated on whether it would be blasphemous to say that "God is a bollocks" on air – he was denounced by listeners whose view was upheld by the broadcast complaints body.
You'd think that Izzard's slipperiness and his gift for wordplay and nonsense humor ("bollocks on top of more bollocks," he has called his style) make him a natural for the role of a con man, like the one he plays in the new FX show "The Riches," about a family of Travellers — Gypsy-like communities — who pull off a theft of huge proportions.
Banhart's Megapuss artwork is less Prince posing as a blurry sex-nymph on the cover of Lovesexy, more the Slits fighting in mud and somehow making that far more punk than sticking the word "bollocks" on a cover in ransom-note letters.
Her many memorable moments include preparing coq au vin with a sword (at posh boy JP's family home) and a lecture-hall monologue about Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children ("I feel like I've got this pompous, fat, naked man sitting on my face, and he's resting his big, overrated bollocks on my airways").
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They talk dismissively on occasion of "skanks" and "fags" and they bollock on endlessly about their nonexistent careers.
So maybe Wilder has the bollocks to take me on, though first time I land one on him it will be goodnight Vienna".
The gangs of art critics, artists, and hangers-on have arrived in a bacchanalian spirit: "You came to Venice, you saw a ton of art, you went to parties, you drank up a storm, you talked bollocks for hours on end and went back to London with a cumulative hangover, liver damage, a notebook almost devoid of notes and the first tingle of a cold sore".
They tied another against the powerhouse that is Bexley, cue for wild, shrieking scenes of jubilation (from some of the players too) that brought a corrective 10-minute post-match bollocking on respecting the opposition, meeting triumph and disaster just the same, and, oh well, go on then.
Watching Louis can feel like he's snatching away our chance to moralise from the sofa, but I've got a sneaking suspicion many viewers will recognise the jokey way Aurelie responds to a nurse giving her a firm but fair bollocking on the deteriorating state of her health.
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