Craig Brown
Craig Brown
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brownis an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth23 May 1957
blessed completing definitely focused good opening press project ready weather
We'll definitely be ready by then. It's been a full-court press to get ready. We've been blessed by some very good weather and everybody, from the very beginning, has been singularly focused on completing the project by opening day.
aged felt oldies school slightly sure though town
When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.
legs michael
Michael Owen - he's got the legs of a salmon.
avoid common might truly
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
beautiful downtown excited forward host league meetings opportunity sally stadium taking team tour visiting west
We're excited about the opportunity to host the Sally League meetings in Greenville, and look forward to taking the visiting team representatives on a tour of beautiful downtown Greenville and the new West End Stadium site.
children frightened next perfectly
Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
catty consummate literary
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
deciding five further good minutes speaking spend ten whether
Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
bringing clear consulting dictionary generally insisted irritated occurs opponents placed scrabble throughout
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
people though
When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read.
considered generally
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
alike dinner evening guests hosts party somewhere source spent television untold watching
Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
battalion cameron landed
My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.
became blazer firm handshake originally people preferred straight symbol trust
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.