The Curse of Gnome Revisited

Since it was started as a rag tag publication by Messrs Rushton and Ingrams, Private Eye has had a major problem : how to print libellous bollocks without getting sued.

One of the most ingenous devices it adopted was termed the 'curse of gnome'. This worked thus :

In a fit of temper, a newspaper proprietor, "businessman", politician whatever sues Private Eye.

The 'curse' is activated such that the magazine will report, in scrupulous detail, any subsequent misadventure, tragedy, scandal that befalls the hapless litigant.

Having now received four rejections from job applications to law firms, I'm thinking of applying a simillar principle to this blog.

Shame to see Herbert (Not So) Smugs getting fined £30k the other week at the employment tribunal wasn't it ?