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Backchat - Not-amused trio are Victoria's cross.(Oxford University Press)(Brief Article)
Backchat has developed a stonking great crush on Victoria Coren, the petite little terrier of a presenter on Balderdash and Piffle, the BBC's extended advertisement for the Oxford English Dictionary. Each Tuesday, Backchat has been settling down on the sofa with a stiff drink and a finger on the remote, letting Victoria have her way with words like "phwoar", "mackem", "codswallop", "full monty" and "bonk". Of the guest presenters so far, Ian Hislop's hilarious full-frontal attack on "management-speak" is the one that's given the most side-splitting satisfaction. The aerial shots of Oxford and the clips of Victoria padding around the OUP's sunset-dappled listed buildings all lend an air of ivory ...
- Backchat - The envelope please for the Backchat Awards 2005! Backchat had a...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review January 17, 2006 700+ words
...school reunion-type disco outings. But Backchat's spy cameras failed to get a snap...moves Readers may remember that last year Backchat's cameramen caught Hoover's marketing...mad with jealousy, but unfortunately Backchat has no photographic evidence of the BvD...
- Backchat - Movers and groovers at CiG.(Nick Collinson)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review February 22, 2006 700+ words
Barely had Backchat had the opportunity to ply outgoing CiG chairman Nick Collinson...the clubs of NYC). If any staff at Swets would like to use Backchat's email address (backchat@iwr.co.uk) to forward messages of goodwill to Nick...
- Backchat - Belly aching dance for us.(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review December 6, 2005 700+ words
...a website featured in last month's Backchat. He writes: "Do you people really...unconventional' chaps giving us a bad name." Backchat suggests we all pause here, and take...net/~erisw/bdlibgallery.html). Backchat is happy to give a bit of space over...
- Backchat.(Hoover's Inc.)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Pickering, Bobby July 11, 2005 700+ words
...Reed Business Information's www.bankersalmanac.com. Backchat wishes Trev and pals better luck next time. No doubt Hoovers...Raife Watson bought them all a consolation beer, though Backchat couldn't conjole him into performing his award-winning...
- Backchat - Publishing mystery engulfs IWR.(Information World Review)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review December 6, 2005 700+ words
Backchat feels it is now the right time to reveal that IWR has been caught up in an elaborate sting, not of its own devising. We have...
- Backchat - Fast route to the Mouse House.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review November 16, 2005 700+ words
...Forget the rags, they're so yesterday). Mickey himself was recently named one of the top 20 icons of the 20th Century. For Backchat, he's just a symbol of US global cultural imperialism - an icon only in the sense that he signifies how Western consumer...
- Backchat - Word in your ear. Every month we explain a new word that keeps...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review February 22, 2006 700+ words
...subsequently fallen out of favour. Have we got it right? Send us your thoughts on our definition, or requests for clarification of other unusual terms gathering currency among information professionals, to: backchat@iwr.co.uk.
- Backchat - Cilip to play the joker at L+i Show awards ceremony.
- Magazine article from: Information World Review February 22, 2006 700+ words
Backchat's quite chuffed that Cilip has chosen comic poet John Hegley to present...advance taster to whet your appetite, go to www.johnhegley.co.uk. Backchat favourites include Poem de Terre and Relaxing with Taxidermy.