Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Andrew Brothers
Posted by Paul Bernays on 14 January 2009 - 12:49pm.
Without wishing to cause offence to the parties themselves or their loved ones, I find myself getting confused between Andrews Collins and Harrison. I know one wears glasses and is a Word staffer while the other doesn't and isn't but did get into hot water about baby animals. Appearances on the podcast haven't helped as they sound the same to me. It would really help me if they were on at the same time, then I'd be in with a chance. Come to think of it, have they ever been seen in public together or are they secretly the same person?
Does any one else have this problem? If so has anyone come up with a mnemonic to help keep things clear?
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They sound the same?
One wairks for Waird; the ather's a Satherner.
As for telling Messrs Hepworth and Ellen apart, whereas one says "Ecky thoomp", the other says "Ecky jolly well boff you on the nose".
It's easy.
Easy...
listen or read for 10 minutes - if there is no mention of the Mitford sisters then it's Andrew Harrison.
Ouch!
But on the money.
I thought
Collins was from Northampton.
If it's south of Stockport
It's the South.
and it's east of Mid-Wales where I am
so it's the South-East
One's a C U Next Tuesday
and the other one isn't.
Easy.
Ouch
Now, now, surely there's no need for that. They're both fine journalists and gentlemen as far as I'm concerned.
Easy
Andrew Harrison speaks quicker.
That's true
I remember seeing him at a Sparks gig last year and was sorely tempted to approach him and ask him to calm down a bit!
I'd recently been listening to him on a Word podcast on which I kept having to rewind to catch what he'd said!
Hey, it's great this cyber-bullying isn't it...!
Seriously though Andrew and Andrew, please don't take offence - love your work really!
I meant no insult to either
I do seriously wonder sometimes why people bother criticising people who provide podcasts, at no charge, for me to enjoy. Both Andrew's provide me more entertainment in a year than pretty much the whole of ITV's output combined.
'Better than ITV ...'
Has there ever been fainter praise?
I didn't mean it as faint though
On the basis that ITV throw many millions of pounds at entertaining versus the Collins & Herring podcast budget of a laptop and the Word podcast budget of a laptop and 3 mics, I think that's a ringing endorsement of the two Andrew's contribution to entertaining me by comparison.
Andrew Collins
'Andrew Collins' Mention Detector' will alert him to this thread and we'll get a post from him shortly :-)
Shit...hadn't thought of that
or maybe I didn't mean him.
Yeah, that's it, I meant the other one.
Don't worry
I tried that in a previous thread - daring him to show himself to prove my theory that he uses the above search facility typing in "Andrew Collins". He didn't show and won't now. But he is taking names...
On the podcast
you generally can't understand either of them unless listening though headphones. Harry mentions butchers a lot. COllins frequently writes entire swathes of Word. Twang Jr poked AH in the tummy at Cornbury. AH was very nice about it.
A good tip for the amateur Andrew Spotter
...is to pay attention to the background noise. If you can hear the jeers and catcalls of an angry mob, interrupted by the occasional gunshot, then you are probably listening to Andrew Collins.
Andrew Harrison...
may be recognized by his somewhat frequent references to the works of Joy Division and New Order.
And...
The Pet Shop Boys, The Fall and HMHB.
This was
a genuine if 'lighthearted' enquiry so please no abuse or goading. Thus thanks a lot to almost all of you - I feel better equipped to deal with this mistaken Andrew crisis: one poked the Mitford Sisters in the tummy in Northampton and the other's fed a half man biscuit to the squirels at Cornbury. Now it's on to less pressing items on my to do list (tax return, flea combing the cat, bidding for works of art, that sort of thing).
Can I recommend...
...those little squirty things that you dab on the back of the cats neck - we use Frontline? Seems to work fine, even for longhairs (maaaan).
The cats do look a bit lacking in gruntlement for a minute or two afterwards but there's no lasting effect (apart from the absence of fleas, obv)
Thanks but I've tried those
and she tends to climb onto the ceiling in contortions trying to eat her own back. Which I take to be a deeper absence of gruntlement.