Queen Elizabeth refuses to donate a word to the Sydney Museum of Words - Polidicks

[quote]When Charles Firth wrote to the Queen asking her to donate a word to the Sydney Museum of Words, Buckingham Palace sent a polite apology saying it would be unfair because Her Majesty received so many requests for donations. ‘‘My wife said the Queen was the only person who picked it as a scam,’’ said Firth, who launches his satirical museum on Saturday with an exhibition at a Potts Point art gallery. [/quote] [quote]Printed words hung like artworks include ‘‘perseverance’’ from Gina Rinehart, ‘‘consent’’ from Julian Assange and Andrew Denton’s ‘‘nichodemia’’ – the pleasure of anticipating success before doing something. The museum emerged from the Sydney Writers’ Room, a non-profit work space in Sydney’s Trades Hall set up by Firth and friends that has so far housed 40 writers of books, films and television scripts. But it was losing money and Firth, who believes space is more useful to artists than cash, found no arts organisation would give a grant to pay rent. ‘‘So we thought, OK, how can we scam an arts grant by creating a program? A museum of words was the cheapest thing in the world.’’ To his surprise, the City of Sydney granted the museum $20,000 and $10,000 for marketing. ‘‘Now it has snowballed, so I don’t know if it’s a scam any more,’’ Firth said. ‘‘The original idea was to spend $150 on the museum and the rest on booze for the opening-night party.’’ Instead Firth and his team asked well-known people to ‘‘donate’’ words, which are printed with witty definitions and will hang at 29 Challis Avenue for two weeks, allowing viewers to consider their out-of-context strangeness.[/quote] [url]http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/comedian-charles-firth-takes-words-out-of-the-mouths-of-rinehart-and-assange-but-queen-stays-marm-20131111-2xbks.html[/url]

Maybe the public can sponsor a word on her behalf? I have a choice few that would be a perfect fit.

the idea of a museum of words chosen by people is interesting despite the open admission of scamming, especially if they are accompanied by the reasons why

wow the original article is one of the worst examples of headlining in the history of the written word. holy fucking cow. also how the hell did it think the queen giving a canned refusal to a guy was more interesting than this, deeper in the article [quote]‘‘So we thought, OK, how can we scam an arts grant by creating a program? A museum of words was the cheapest thing in the world.’’[/quote]

[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;42838014]‘‘So we thought, OK, how can we scam an arts grant by creating a program? A museum of words was the cheapest thing in the world.’’[/QUOTE] brb gonna make a museum of ideas in the middle of Times Square

[QUOTE=TheHydra;42838029]the idea of a museum of words chosen by people is interesting despite the open admission of scamming, especially if they are accompanied by the reasons why[/QUOTE] He's a member of a political satire group (The Chaser), he's not actually scamming anybody.

" " -Queen Elizabeth

"Cunt"

[QUOTE=CheeseMan;42838036]wow the original article is one of the worst examples of headlining in the history of the written word. holy fucking cow. also how the hell did it think the queen giving a canned refusal to a guy was more interesting than this, deeper in the article[/QUOTE] Damn, now that I think about it, "Comedian scams state government out of $30,000" would be a much better sensationalist headline.

So basically she donated the word "No."

Glad to see Charles Firth is still up to stuff. I liked him on CNNNN.

[QUOTE=TheHydra;42838029]the idea of a museum of words chosen by people is interesting despite the open admission of scamming, especially if they are accompanied by the reasons why[/QUOTE] It reminds me of those artists that intentionally made useless junk as satire of modern art and instead gained a following from people who liked their creations

[QUOTE=Alec W;42838099]"Cunt"[/QUOTE] Probably my favorite word. If I were somebody and had been approached for this, that would have been my word. [editline]banana[/editline] cunt

[img]http://i.imgur.com/SI6bzNg.png[/img] whoops

"Refusal"

"You'reOutOfTheCommonwealth"

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[QUOTE]Printed words hung like artworks include ‘‘perseverance’’ from Gina Rinehart, [B]‘‘consent’’ from Julian Assange[/B][/QUOTE] We all know that Assange is an expert on consent.

Antidisestablishmentarianism.