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Written by Uponnothing
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 19:07 |
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In 2008 Richard Littlejohn managed to write 97 articles. He is reported to be earning around £800,000 a year writing for the Mail so that means he was been paid around £8247 for each article. Richard Littlejohn likes to repeat catchphrases because he thinks there is something intrinsically clever or funny in doing so. 'Elf 'n' safety' was the most popular catchphrase of 2008 with 51 uses (mentioned another 11 times as part of the phrase 'elf 'n' safety nazis') whilst the second favourite phrase was the ingenious 'Call Me Dave' - wasn't funny the first time, nor the 34th time it was used. 'You couldn't make it up' was used a respectable 30 times but surprisingly 'yuman rites' was only used a sparing 28 times - with 'Mind how you go' only being used 16 times. When it comes to single words, which represent a particular bugbear for Littlejohn, 'Muslim/s' scored highest with 70 uses, surprisingly scoring higher than the word 'gay' which comes up the rear (yes, this Littlejohnism is intentional) with a pitiful 39 uses. The next most popular word is 'diversity' (which Littlejohn tends to use as a swearword) with 31 uses, 6 more than 'terrorist/s' got over the course of the year, but I failed to count 'terrorism'. 2008 Littlejohn word / catchphrase leaderboard Muslim/s
| 70 | Elf 'n' safety
| 51
| | Gay | 39
| | Call Me Dave | 34 | | Diversity | 31 | | You couldn't make it up | 30 | Yuman rites
| 28 | | Terrorist/s | 25 | | Guardianistas | 21 | Illegal immigrants
| 17 | Mind how you go
| 16 | Speed cameras
| 15 | Elf 'n' safety nazis
| 11 | | Com-pen-say-shun* | 9 | | Multiculturalism | 6 | | Aids | 6 | Traffic Taliban
| 5
| Fascist Left
| 5
| | Eco-loonies | 5 | Liberal 'media'
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* Littlejohn puts the phonetic dashes for this word in a variety of ways, largely, I suspect, because he is a moron.
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 March 2009 22:42 |
He normally uses 'to hell in a handcart' to plug his book of the same title.