Commonly reported to have made (cue Dr Evil finger to mouth) one billion dollars from the Facebook flotation, but that’s a myth: probably closer to $10 million.
28 January 2014
robvarmint
I’ve been trying to resist commenting – after all, my mum told me “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything”.
However…
I think he’s an arse. That’s all.
28 January 2014
Brumbiscuit
Viz magazine regularly has a pop at him. Rather amusing. The one about having his hat shipped around the world can’t possibly have been based on fact, could it?
28 January 2014
Third Rate Les
There’s that great crowd heckle; he’s standing on stage, clapping slowly, and says “every time I clap my hands, another child in Africa dies”, and someone shouts “well stop fookin doing it then”.
Would love to know if that’s true.
28 January 2014
Ron W
Bono, Bonio, Bounce (the tasty meaty dog food) easy to get them all mixed up
3 February 2014
Peter D
Well known story worth repeating : Captain Beefheart’s (or some say Frank Zappa’s) response to a letter from our hero offering to collaborate : ” Dear Bongo, No.”
4 February 2014
dirk hofman
Nestle make BONO biscuits..!
25 February 2014
peter mcornithologist
Glad to hear that both he and his Poundland glasses are going to be involved in Band Aid 30.I suggest he gets himself off my TV and contributes in a more useful way.Dip into one of your numerous accounts tightarse.
12 November 2014
Cat
Anyone who ever listened to Sonny and Cher knows it’s pronounced “BOW-no”, not “BON-no” Get it right, you flouncy Irish sunglass-wearing poodle-licker.
24 February 2016
Cat
“Bow” as in bow-tie, not curtsy. Maybe I should’ve written “Bone-oh”. If it was supposed to be “Bon-no”, it would have 2 N’s, not one. Anyway I don’t like him, either.
25 February 2016
Peter mcornithologist
Has recommended that a team of highly trained comedians will bring about the demise of Isis. I vaguely recall a Python sketch in which a joke was so funny, that anyone hearing it, died laughing. I suggest someone tell it to that idiot.
14 April 2016
EXXO
“Bono has suggested to US politicians that they use comedy to tackle so-called Islamic State.
“The ^ singer was speaking in front of a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday as part of a discussion about violent extremism.
“He said sending in ^ comedians such as Amy Schumer and Chris Rock could be an alternative to military action.”
Surely that violates BBC rules with at least one and possibly two missing so-calleds ?
14 April 2016
Hendrix TATtoo
Bono had several names: first, he was “Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang”,then just “Huyseman”, followed by “Houseman”, “Bon Murray”, “Bono Vox of O’Connell Street”, and finally just “Bono”. “Bono Vox” is an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to “good voice”
17 April 2016
Pirx the purist
Ah, Sonny Bono! The US Republican Party’s last genuine tree-hugger…
25 April 2019
hendrix-Tattoo
Rumour as it he had to have Covid test after feeling under the weather. His Doctor asked to see him and informed him the test was negative. Bono replied singing “Well tonight thank God it’s phlegm instead of flu”
I’ll get my coat….
13 January 2021
dr Desperate
As we’re all aware, ‘Achtung Bono’ is a play on ‘Achtung Baby’, but there may still be some who don’t know that the U2 title was a quote from Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers’, in which the Nazi author Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars) shouts “Der Führer does not say “Achtung, baby”!” Apparently Bono considered several other titles for the album, but rejected them in the belief that people would see them as pretentious.
28 February 2021
Alice van der meer
I shall have to keep an ear out for that line – I was given a ridiculous amount of vouchers for a well-known online retailer named for a woman warrior late last year, and one of the things I splurged on was classic (?) movies. Thus far we’ve done Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein (do you begin to see a theme developing here?), Blazing Saddles, and still have The Producers to go. Damn, I’m going to have *that* song as an earworm all day now!
28 February 2021
mister tubbs
Mel Brooks also used the “Achtung Baby” line in the Hitler Rap, a song that accompanied the release of his film “To Be Or Not To Be” in the 1980’s, although I don’t remember the song actually appearing in the film itself.
28 February 2021
TRANSIT FULL OF keith
Just read Bono’s poem for Ukraine. Christ, as if they didn’t have enough on their plate at the Hague already.
17 March 2022
EXXO
The unreassuringly mediocre R5L commentator Ian Dennis has decided that Sevilla’s Moroccan keeper’s name is pronounced “Bono,” which it isn’t and never has been. He therefore thinks it’s amusing to make endless U2 song title quips.
I am surely not alone in hoping that some form of natural selection will soon end this pain for the entire listening nation, before this knobhead gets to Qatar and spoils Morocco’s games for us.
2 November 2022
dr desperate
Unfortunately, he has support from Wikipedia, which begins its page on him with “Yassine Bounou (Arabic: ياسين بونو; born 5 April 1991), also known as Bono…”
3 November 2022
Eric t’Viking
Seconded Exxo. Trying to crowbar ‘with or without him’ around a delayed substitution had all the joy of toothache. R5L – where once was Alan Green and Jimmy Armfield, only Pat Nevin now stands out amongst the mediocre. And John Murray is ok.
3 November 2022
EXXO
Yeah, sigh, hate it when players pander to local mispronunciation of their names just because the host countries are paying them so handsomely (viz Wanchope, etc). Bounou does seem to embrace ‘Bono’ to a horrific extent on his socials so OK I have to let the consistently cringeworthy, often verging on Partridgesque Ian Dennis off on this one.
I don’t know what Conor McNamara’s excuse is here. Listen, if you can bear it, as he slaughters the names of some of these Italian and German legends from 1970!
5 November 2022
dr desperate
Mention of the shaded one reminds me that we made the recent Blackpool gig into a double-header by popping down to Lytham on the Saturday night to catch The Undertones on tour. Fans from the days of Peel may not be aware that the band re-formed in 1999 with a new singer, and in 2003 released an album called ‘Get What You Need’, which included the splendid track ‘Oh Please’. There are verses about Nelson Mandela having his yard decked against his will (possibly by Tommy Walsh) and Fidel Castro accidentally booking the Manics to play in Havana (having never got into them, he mistakes them for The Clash, then has to pretend he speaks Welsh). However, it reaches peak Biscuitiness in the second verse, in which Bongo goes to Rome to see the Pope, and lets him wear his Ray-Bans. The Holy Father is found to be thinking, “Protect me, Lord, from Dublin bands”, and the song ends “Please, no more of these superb ideas that make me wanna slap you”.
(In case you were worrying that The Undertones might have lost some of their youthful joie de vivre, at one point during the gig the bassist Mickey Bradley commented on the steep rake of the stage, complaining that this made it “crap for playing marbles”.)
6 November 2022
EXXO
Well blimey, Bounou certainly gave Morocco the edge there.
6 December 2022
Hendrix-tattoo
Waddingtons have just introduced a new board game just like Monopoly. It’s called Bonopoly, Where the streets have no name…
1 February 2023
woodnoggin
Sadly, Waddingtons have been defunct for years. They were bought out by Hasbro in the ’90s.
1 February 2023
Hendrix-tattoo
I stand corrected @woodnoggin😳
1 February 2023
Woodnoggin
I enjoyed the joke, by the way, just couldn’t resist the pedantry. 😉
5 February 2023
Mal
Bono was not named “Bono Vox, an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to “good voice”. He was named after Bono Vox, the hearing aid retailers, who have a shop just off O’Connell Street that I pass often.
Rumour also has it that Dave Evans got his nickname ‘The Edge’ because before he joined U2. He used to help his Uncle Seamus who had a Sheep farm in County Laois gather all the Sheep on the Mountain side. And sometimes young Dave would catch one that took his fancy. Take it to the top of the mountain, Grab its hind legs and place them in his green wellies and do something to it. In which you cannot describe in a family newspaper…
22 May 2023
The Bullet of Escobar
Gets all a bit confusing when Lewis Hamilton refers to his race engineer Pete Bonnington as Bono….anyway with regards to the multi-millionaire wanker from North Dublin….Eno once recommended U2 should be produced by German krautrock legend Conny Plank only for Plank to ring up Eno hours after meeting them saying “I can’t work with these guys. The lead singer is unbearable.”
Toastkid
Commonly reported to have made (cue Dr Evil finger to mouth) one billion dollars from the Facebook flotation, but that’s a myth: probably closer to $10 million.
28 January 2014
robvarmint
I’ve been trying to resist commenting – after all, my mum told me “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything”.
However…
I think he’s an arse. That’s all.
28 January 2014
Brumbiscuit
Viz magazine regularly has a pop at him. Rather amusing. The one about having his hat shipped around the world can’t possibly have been based on fact, could it?
28 January 2014
Third Rate Les
There’s that great crowd heckle; he’s standing on stage, clapping slowly, and says “every time I clap my hands, another child in Africa dies”, and someone shouts “well stop fookin doing it then”.
Would love to know if that’s true.
28 January 2014
Ron W
Bono, Bonio, Bounce (the tasty meaty dog food)
easy to get them all mixed up
3 February 2014
Peter D
Well known story worth repeating : Captain Beefheart’s (or some say Frank Zappa’s) response to a letter from our hero offering to collaborate : ” Dear Bongo, No.”
4 February 2014
dirk hofman
Nestle make BONO biscuits..!
25 February 2014
peter mcornithologist
Glad to hear that both he and his Poundland glasses are going to be involved in Band Aid 30.I suggest he gets himself off my TV and contributes in a more useful way.Dip into one of your numerous accounts tightarse.
12 November 2014
Cat
Anyone who ever listened to Sonny and Cher knows it’s pronounced “BOW-no”, not “BON-no” Get it right, you flouncy Irish sunglass-wearing poodle-licker.
24 February 2016
Cat
“Bow” as in bow-tie, not curtsy. Maybe I should’ve written “Bone-oh”. If it was supposed to be “Bon-no”, it would have 2 N’s, not one. Anyway I don’t like him, either.
25 February 2016
Peter mcornithologist
Has recommended that a team of highly trained comedians will bring about the demise of Isis. I vaguely recall a Python sketch in which a joke was so funny, that anyone hearing it, died laughing. I suggest someone tell it to that idiot.
14 April 2016
EXXO
“Bono has suggested to US politicians that they use comedy to tackle so-called Islamic State.
“The ^ singer was speaking in front of a US Senate subcommittee on Tuesday as part of a discussion about violent extremism.
“He said sending in ^ comedians such as Amy Schumer and Chris Rock could be an alternative to military action.”
Surely that violates BBC rules with at least one and possibly two missing so-calleds ?
14 April 2016
Hendrix TATtoo
Bono had several names: first, he was “Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang”,then just “Huyseman”, followed by “Houseman”, “Bon Murray”, “Bono Vox of O’Connell Street”, and finally just “Bono”. “Bono Vox” is an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to “good voice”
17 April 2016
Pirx the purist
Ah, Sonny Bono! The US Republican Party’s last genuine tree-hugger…
25 April 2019
hendrix-Tattoo
Rumour as it he had to have Covid test after feeling under the weather.
His Doctor asked to see him and informed him the test was negative.
Bono replied singing “Well tonight thank God it’s phlegm instead of flu”
I’ll get my coat….
13 January 2021
dr Desperate
As we’re all aware, ‘Achtung Bono’ is a play on ‘Achtung Baby’, but there may still be some who don’t know that the U2 title was a quote from Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers’, in which the Nazi author Franz Liebkind (Kenneth Mars) shouts “Der Führer does not say “Achtung, baby”!”
Apparently Bono considered several other titles for the album, but rejected them in the belief that people would see them as pretentious.
28 February 2021
Alice van der meer
I shall have to keep an ear out for that line – I was given a ridiculous amount of vouchers for a well-known online retailer named for a woman warrior late last year, and one of the things I splurged on was classic (?) movies. Thus far we’ve done Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein (do you begin to see a theme developing here?), Blazing Saddles, and still have The Producers to go. Damn, I’m going to have *that* song as an earworm all day now!
28 February 2021
mister tubbs
Mel Brooks also used the “Achtung Baby” line in the Hitler Rap, a song that accompanied the release of his film “To Be Or Not To Be” in the 1980’s, although I don’t remember the song actually appearing in the film itself.
28 February 2021
TRANSIT FULL OF keith
Just read Bono’s poem for Ukraine. Christ, as if they didn’t have enough on their plate at the Hague already.
17 March 2022
EXXO
The unreassuringly mediocre R5L commentator Ian Dennis has decided that Sevilla’s Moroccan keeper’s name is pronounced “Bono,” which it isn’t and never has been. He therefore thinks it’s amusing to make endless U2 song title quips.
I am surely not alone in hoping that some form of natural selection will soon end this pain for the entire listening nation, before this knobhead gets to Qatar and spoils Morocco’s games for us.
2 November 2022
dr desperate
Unfortunately, he has support from Wikipedia, which begins its page on him with “Yassine Bounou (Arabic: ياسين بونو; born 5 April 1991), also known as Bono…”
3 November 2022
Eric t’Viking
Seconded Exxo.
Trying to crowbar ‘with or without him’ around a delayed substitution had all the joy of toothache. R5L – where once was Alan Green and Jimmy Armfield, only Pat Nevin now stands out amongst the mediocre. And John Murray is ok.
3 November 2022
EXXO
Yeah, sigh, hate it when players pander to local mispronunciation of their names just because the host countries are paying them so handsomely (viz Wanchope, etc). Bounou does seem to embrace ‘Bono’ to a horrific extent on his socials so OK I have to let the consistently cringeworthy, often verging on Partridgesque Ian Dennis off on this one.
3 November 2022
John Anderson
Ian Dennis’ favourite band is Deacon Blue (qv).
3 November 2022
mister tubbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIxr3kQnYvk
I don’t know what Conor McNamara’s excuse is here. Listen, if you can bear it, as he slaughters the names of some of these Italian and German legends from 1970!
5 November 2022
dr desperate
Mention of the shaded one reminds me that we made the recent Blackpool gig into a double-header by popping down to Lytham on the Saturday night to catch The Undertones on tour.
Fans from the days of Peel may not be aware that the band re-formed in 1999 with a new singer, and in 2003 released an album called ‘Get What You Need’, which included the splendid track ‘Oh Please’. There are verses about Nelson Mandela having his yard decked against his will (possibly by Tommy Walsh) and Fidel Castro accidentally booking the Manics to play in Havana (having never got into them, he mistakes them for The Clash, then has to pretend he speaks Welsh).
However, it reaches peak Biscuitiness in the second verse, in which Bongo goes to Rome to see the Pope, and lets him wear his Ray-Bans. The Holy Father is found to be thinking, “Protect me, Lord, from Dublin bands”, and the song ends “Please, no more of these superb ideas that make me wanna slap you”.
(In case you were worrying that The Undertones might have lost some of their youthful joie de vivre, at one point during the gig the bassist Mickey Bradley commented on the steep rake of the stage, complaining that this made it “crap for playing marbles”.)
6 November 2022
EXXO
Well blimey, Bounou certainly gave Morocco the edge there.
6 December 2022
Hendrix-tattoo
Waddingtons have just introduced a new board game just like Monopoly. It’s called Bonopoly, Where the streets have no name…
1 February 2023
woodnoggin
Sadly, Waddingtons have been defunct for years. They were bought out by Hasbro in the ’90s.
1 February 2023
Hendrix-tattoo
I stand corrected @woodnoggin😳
1 February 2023
Woodnoggin
I enjoyed the joke, by the way, just couldn’t resist the pedantry. 😉
5 February 2023
Mal
Bono was not named “Bono Vox, an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to “good voice”. He was named after Bono Vox, the hearing aid retailers, who have a shop just off O’Connell Street that I pass often.
Their website:
https://www.bonavox.ie/
21 May 2023
Hendrix-tattoo
Rumour also has it that Dave Evans got his nickname ‘The Edge’ because before he joined U2.
He used to help his Uncle Seamus who had a Sheep farm in County Laois gather all the Sheep on the Mountain side. And sometimes young Dave would catch one that took his fancy. Take it to the top of the mountain, Grab its hind legs and place them in his green wellies and do something to it. In which you cannot describe in a family newspaper…
22 May 2023
The Bullet of Escobar
Gets all a bit confusing when Lewis Hamilton refers to his race engineer Pete Bonnington as Bono….anyway with regards to the multi-millionaire wanker from North Dublin….Eno once recommended U2 should be produced by German krautrock legend Conny Plank only for Plank to ring up Eno hours after meeting them saying “I can’t work with these guys. The lead singer is unbearable.”
16 August 2023