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It was coined by Private Eye [3] after a BBC report [4] which used the term in describing 1960s Labour Party Cabinet minister and Deputy Leader Lord George-Brown, who was an alcoholic. It first appeared in a parody memo supposedly informing civil servants how to describe George Brown's conduct and state of mind.
The term "luvvie" pre-dates the magazine as a derogatory noun for pretentious, overblown, narcissistic people of an artistic or dramatic bent. [citation needed] The column was briefly renamed Trevvies for several issues in the mid-1990s after Trevor Nunn described use of the term as offensive “as calling a black man a ‘nigger’”. [1]
Private Eye is Britain's best-selling current affairs magazine, [2] and such is its long-term popularity and impact that many of its recurring in-jokes have entered popular culture. The magazine bucks the trend of declining circulation for print media, having recorded its highest ever circulation in the second half of 2016.
The phrase "tired and emotional" is a chiefly British euphemism for alcohol intoxication.It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967 after being used in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of Labour cabinet minister George Brown, [1] but is now used as a stock phrase.
Marianne LentiniVeteran private investigator Marianne Lentini runs Evidence Investigations in Boynton Beach, FL. It's easy to romanticize being a private eye. We've all got that image of Dick ...
Beano Boris or Boris the Menace, coined by the satirical magazine Private Eye which depicted Johnson as a blond-haired version of Dennis the Menace from The Beano. [136] British Trump or Britain Trump, used to refer to his perceived similarities with U.S. President Donald Trump. [137]
Glenda Slagg is a fictional parodic columnist in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. She first appeared in the mid-1960s. Slagg's writing style is a pastiche of several female columnists in British newspapers, notably Jean Rook [1] and Lynda Lee-Potter. [2] Slagg is depicted as brash, vitriolic, and inconsistent.
Colemanballs is a term coined by Private Eye magazine to describe verbal gaffes perpetrated by sports commentators. [1] Coleman refers to the surname of the former BBC broadcaster David Coleman and the suffix -balls, as in "to balls up", [1] [2] and has since spawned derivative terms in unrelated fields such as "Warballs" (spurious references to the September 11, 2001, attacks), "Dianaballs ...