Richard Bacon Blog Button and BBC Says “Don’t Rely on the Information in Our Emails”
I did a few pro-Mansfield buttons yesterday, and Tom Pegg from the Local Paper - the Chad - has demanded one of Richard Bacon, who is now a presenter on Radio 5.
Since I found a good Creative Commons photo of Richard Bacon on Flick-r (courtesy James Cridland), here you go, Tom :
![militant-about-mansfield-richard-bacon[1]](http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/militant-about-mansfield-richard-bacon1.jpg)
The only fly in the ointment will be if he detests Mansfield. If so, we’ll set Alan Meale MP on him. Not likely for a supporter of Mansfield Town FC.
(I’m not a “broadsheet” newspaper so I will not be inserting gratuitous photos of Richard’s ex-squeeze Connie Huq here - eat your heart out, Hamish - and I refer Telegraph and Independent readers to the first 364 pages or so from Google images .)
On a side-note, I tried to contact Richard Bacon at his BBC email address, and I had a reply from a Bacon-Bot, which had a corker of a disclaimer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated.
If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system.
Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately.
Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received.
Further communication will signify your consent to this.
Got it?
Presumably if I notify the sender it will then send me another one, which will also encourage me to get in touch with the sender, so I’ll send it another one, and … Houston, we have a problem.
“Do not use the information in any way, nor act in reliance on it”.
That is a separate sentence, so applies to the entire contents of the email - not just those sent in error. If you are counting angels on a pinhead, you could argue that “notify the sender immediately” suggests that it only applies to emails sent to the wrong place - but I’m taking the other interpretation, as it is more fun.
So, can anybody find me an example of that disclaimer on a Press Release?That would be gorgeous.
Tags: alan meale mp, bbc, mansfield, richard bacon
Categories: All WW, Daily, Humour, Local Politics, Media
Mansfield isn’t that bad. Seriously. My sister lives there.
Granted, some of the people should live under bridges, but the place is quite attractive in places. It also has a fantastic Chinese takeaway, a good swimming pool, a decent cinema, a comic-book store, and a couple of nice parks.
What always amazes me is when I go the Lincolnshire East Coast (Skegness and Ingoldmells particularly), I always spot people I know from Mansfield. They even sell the Chad in Ingoldmells - it’s Mansfield-on-Sea!
@Aaron Heath: “Mansfield-on-Sea!”
Always has been
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Thanks for the badge, Matt. I must admit I’m not quite sure whether Richard Bacon has quite the same ambassadorial zeal for Mansfield as your other badge subjects. Perhaps this will inspire him…
Tom Pegg’s last blog post..Be careful what you wish for