I have been too shy to ask this question for a while but the picture of HJ that appears above the Telegraph question page and the picture here look like totally different gentlemen?? Is there only one HJ!
Saturday night special - left alone !
Edited by Pugugly on 26/04/2009 at 12:42
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Newspaper pic bylines are well-known for being out of date.
Hacks, in general, are not too keen to pose for fresh ones.
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Are you saying that HJ is a hack ?
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I don't think ifithelps was being derogatory! I guess his point explains everything. HJ doesn't look any older here, just... well different. I don't want to dig myself into a hole here! I have always had a vivid imagination though!
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I was only teasing him - should have added a smiley I suppose.
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'... totally different gentlemen...'
Gentlemen? Er.... they were wearing similar hats, weren't they?
That's good enough for us civilians.
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Of course he's a hack (some of the time anyway). I'm a hack. Why should he be ashamed of it?
I think I'd rather be called a hack than a car coper.
Anyway, my hat (a Fedora) looks nicer than his...
Edited by mike hannon on 25/04/2009 at 21:40
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I know you were teaing him, as an aside it would be good if we could have emotion symbols on this site to prevent misunderstandings as a lot of us have a dry sense of humour.
I didn't really think "hack" was derogatory, I thought it referred to a reporter but my dictionary states that it's someone who "produces dull and unoriginal work" so I guess it is!
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I think I'd rather be called a hack than a car coper. Anyway my hat (a Fedora) looks nicer than his...
Car Coper??
VBR..........MD
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Check out the Kia Soul road test video (and others) to see the internet HJ move and talk.... :-)
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Latest video pix are last week. I sent the paper some up to date pix but they prefer the old Dorian Grey. The AA magazine is running with this year's pix.
HJ
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Hack wasn't meant to be a put down and I doesn't look like HJ has taken it as such.
I've known some rather precious photographers who object to being called 'snappers', and I wouldn't use the term 'smudger', unless I wanted to offend.
Back to motoring, hack - from the days of the horse - is used by traders to mean the car they are using as a runaround - hacking around in.
The other term I've not heard for years is 'smoking' as in: "I'm smoking an old Mondeo at the moment."
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The other term I've not heard for years is 'smoking' as in: "I'm smoking an old Mondeo at the moment." up here in yorkshire if a motor trader was smoking aroud in something it was a car he had bought to sell on, but because its good on diesel and ultra reliable they tend to keep it for themselves
it really does hack back to something like a peugot 305 or 306 diesel though when such things were rare and so much more economical than your average user when you were gunning aroung the auctions looking for bargains
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Hack is certainly a disparaging term for journalist, but only the most self-important kind of hack takes real exception to it. The late Colin Welch of the DT, apparently much-loved by colleagues, was one such (I read in his obituary).
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I never objected to being called a hack or a scribbler, I remember far more 'precious' photographers who objected to being called snappers though.
In my experience the people who don't care about being disparaged, by their colleagues or anyone else, are the ones you want to work with.
'**** coper' - someone who scrapes a living by buying and selling a particular commodity. That's my definition anyway. I think the expression originally described horse traders.
I had a pal in the newspaper trade years ago who used hats to change his identity to suit the job he was working on. Oddly enough, I used to think of him every time I saw HJ's original picture at the top of the column.
Me? In those days I always wore a deerstalker. Maybe that's why I ended up working for the police.
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HJ, you certainly mix with some very strange people
www.pocketgpsworld.com/frontnews/viamichelin-x970t...g
;o)
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We had a Mr Bibendum on the roof of the Morris Minor pick-up we used as a breakdown tender in the 1970s
The figure was only about a foot tall, it looked well, but it didn't half slow that old Morris down.
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But could he drink.
That was about 3 years ago. Won a ViaMichelin satnav that was so user unfriendly I haven't used it.
HJ
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i have a michelin man still in its box with all fittings that i purchased in about 1975,ive probably not even looked at it in the last 10 years,maybe i will have it buried with me
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nowt wrong with the term
Hacko
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Well that answers the question. I hope you are not like Dorian Grey though John, we all know what happened to him!
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Well you never know what may happen in the future.Do you have a rotten picture in the attic?! Seriously though I was fooled by the Telegraph picture.
Anyway thanks for clearing it up and the videos are a nice edition to the site.
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