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Letter: Letter: Decrepit wimp

Published 26 June 1993

From RWK GARDINER

I think the writer of Feedback needs a course of HRT. One envisages a little
decrepit soul, white-coated, woollen gloves sans fingers, Bunsen burner for
warmth, huddling over his typewriter, generating Feedback material
interlaced with ‘Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells’ letters to The Guardian.

The writer keeps sounding like such a killjoy. It was a wimpish moan
against car drivers a while ago (10 April), and then it was football and
snooker players who incurred the sarcastic assault (8 May).

I have the feeling that a ‘World
No-journalists-who-hide-behind-noms-de-plume Day’ would be a more popular
event.

R. W. K. Gardiner
Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire

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Thank you for this uncannily accurate description of Feedback (see
life-drawing, above) – Editor

Issue no. 1879 published 26 June 1993

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