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Does anyone know what has happened to the magnificent Noel Godin. I’ve admired him from a far for many years but there has been a worrying hiatus in ‘entartings’ recently.

If you don’t know about M. Godin, then you’ve got a treat ahead. Remember when Bill Gates had a cream pie thrown at his him (pictures of it dripping off the end of his nose had people round the globe literally pissing their pants) – Noel Godin was the man behind it.

He claims his goal has always been to ‘entarte’ as many people like Gates as he can - people he feels are particularly self-important and lacking a sense of humor. Godin has said he likes “to function in the service of the capitalist status quo, without really using his intelligence or his imagination.” He says his sworn enemies are “authority, depressing laws, the return of the moral order, nuclear power, any form of political power.”

The beauty of his work is that he only pies people who are a little to full of their own self importance. The 15 seconds after the pie is landed on the face are the most revealing of a persons true character – I’ll buy that any day!

Since Godin planted a cream pie on the face of novelist Marguerite Duras he’s attacked dozens more, including France’s best-known television anchorman Patric Poivre d’Arvor and film maker Jean-Luc Godard.

A regular target has been the French ‘philosopher’ Bernhard-Henri Levy. He’s the perfect target as he likes to wear white shirts unbuttoned almost to his navel and to hold forth on political issues with intense gravitas. After one attack, Levy was so furious that he was filmed standing over Godin snarling “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in”.

So keep an eye out for a man going by the name of ‘Georges Le Gloupier’. He used to take his work very seriously and it took 32 people to conduct the Bill Gates Operation. His followers take care to look as ridiculous as possible as they throw their tarts, smiling broadly, spouting anti-pretentious poetry and repeating “gloup, gloup, gloup.”

I hope he’s still at it and planning a big operation. Question is, who would you like him to pie? I always thought Peter Mandelson would make quite good sport and I reckon David Starkey would explode in a rage which I for one would pay to watch.

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