"Who was the stinker who wrote that?" Ross wanted to know.
In December, more than a decade later, it was returned to the same spot, only now the statue was seated on a toilet and retitled The Stinker.
When pressed, he identified the stinker as "21 Jump Street," a remake of a former television show about undercover cops fighting crime in high schools that launched Johnny Depp's career.
Marc Maron visits a Nevada pawn shop, where customers are hocking more of their possessions to deal with the economy "going in the stinker" - but where the shopowner says people are also stocking up on guns as Obama's popularity rises.
On the contrary, it was Kent who was the stinker – literally and metaphorically – to the extent that he could single-handedly clear out a crowded lift in the King's Reach Tower where the NME had its offices.
That he has grown into a silly and grumpy old man will come as no surprise whatsoever to those of us who were unfortunate to have to share space with the stinker way back in the day.
