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July 23, 2004
Scanned clipping of Graxon
As mentioned on Wednesday, ausculture.com were successful in getting Graxon thrown into a gossip column. Sydney Confidential, to be exact. Below is a scanned clipping from the Daily Telegraph - click to enlarge.
Amazingly, friends of mine last night mentioned Graxon to me in general conversation, not actually realising that it was ausculture.com rather than Sydney Confidential who originated (well, donnie_darko created it, but we adopted it with his permission) the phrase. Hilariously, they had also heard about the Saxon\Gretel duet rumour ausculture.com created, which goes to prove that lying and forgery are rather rewarding pastimes.
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I find it rather interesting though that neither Telegraph-related articles we’ve been remotely related to (Wednesday’s Graxon appearance in Sydney Confidential & the opinion piece on Francesca Willis from July 8th) have ever bothered to name-check our actual site. How are we expected to quit our day jobs and spend hours on end licking hallucinogenic drugs off the thighs of high-class prostitutes dressed in school uniforms when the world isn’t aware of how brilliant we are? Is there any justice?
Posted by Jess at July 23, 2004 9:57 AM— Filed under Big Brother Bonanza 2004
Comments
The Melbourne MX paper mentioned Graxon in a brief BB article. MX is a free paper that gets given out to train commuters.
Posted by: barb | July 24, 2004 7:41 AM
Woo! Are you able to scan a copy or something? That'd be great if you could!
Posted by: Jess | July 24, 2004 4:28 PM
heh .. most MX's end up on the floor of trains or in the bins at train stations. fortunately the staff kitchen at work preserved a copy in top condition. i'll go snab it and scan you a copy ;)
Posted by: davek | July 26, 2004 1:02 PM
You're a champ! Hurrah for davek! :)
Posted by: Jess | July 26, 2004 1:05 PM
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1266&storyid=1687188
STILL with Gretski, the Graxon action was kept to a minimum, with no public displays of affection this night.
Posted by: paulyt69 | July 28, 2004 9:51 AM
ugh .. still got the paper clipping but haven't been arsed to scan it yet. sorry Jess - don't hate me! :)
Posted by: dave | July 29, 2004 12:50 AM
You're a bad man, obviously, but I think we can forgive you just this once :) I'll hold back the hating, simply because you've gone to a remote effort to save the clipping and ausculture.com appreciates any efforts to keep our egos swollen!
Posted by: Jess | July 29, 2004 12:36 PM
And in fact, should anyone take credit, it would be Ted Casablanca, the regular eBitch for eonline.com's excellent gossip rag. (http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/)
It was Ted that started the whole name-combining fad well over a year ago -- there was Bennifer, Dashton and a few others, so long ago in fact that he has since got entirely sick of the whole craze and reverted back to normal naming of celeb duo's (you can see a heap of name-joining all through the archives of the time though)
So -- for any regular reader of Ted's (like myself) it was an obvious step to take with Graxton too.
There are heaps of others using this term who've never read Sydney Confid. nor this site -- I certainly haven't, having only arrived here after a search for "Graxton" on Google.
Which is actually more proof that it definitely didn't start here.
No offence, but donnie_darko is full of it.
Cheers Ted Fan
Posted by: tedfan | August 21, 2004 2:56 AM
I coined the phrase Bennifer ages before anyone else did.
Posted by: paulyt69 | August 21, 2004 4:21 AM
Makes me wonder why the word "Graxton" doesn't actually bring any visitors here.
Posted by: Patrick | August 21, 2004 1:21 PM
Haha. Excellent.
I was the first animal to ever walk on two legs. I have now patented ambulation and if I catch anyone moving there is going to be a lawsuit.
Posted by: Patrick | August 21, 2004 1:23 PM
Call in the lawyers.
Posted by: paulyt69 | August 21, 2004 2:23 PM
But darling, the whole point behind Graxon was to take the piss out of Bennifer - and unless Ted (whose column I read too, incidently) wrote the word "Graxon", then he didn't invent it - he merely invented the act of combining two shithouse celebrities names together to become one super celebrity name.
It's like saying if I invented a new game involving a round ball that I am completely ripping off whoever invented curling, since curling is a sport and like - so is my new ball game!
In any case, ausculture.com never claimed to have actually invented the term - we just claimed to have adopted it as a mantra first and been the first to fight for it's rightful place in gossip columns.
Finally - Graxon is SO last month, my friend. Remind me to remove the front page pic :)
Posted by: Jess | August 21, 2004 6:33 PM
Don't forget to remove the pic Jess. 5 thumbs up for you if you do it within 24 hours.
Posted by: paulyt69 | August 22, 2004 12:44 AM
If you go to google and put in "Graxon" (no T) and press I'm feeling lucky it btings you to this page.
Posted by: paulyt69 | August 22, 2004 12:45 AM
Yeah, I was commenting on the fact that the person I was replying to repeatedly used the word 'Graxton' which indicated to me that they came here otherwise than through 'Graxon.'
On another note, a google search for "influential australians" has this very site at third. I think that's possibly ironic.
Posted by: Patrick | August 22, 2004 6:36 PM