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04/23/2004: "Newspaper tycoon goes mental at meeting."

The Guardian's run a wonderful story about how newspaper tycoon Richard Desmond went amusingly spastic at a meeting, his outbursts supposedly resulting from a bid for a newspaper by a German media group.

What did Desmond do? Well, he's supposed to have called all Germans Nazis, goosestepped around his boardroom, told his executives to sing Deutschland, Deustchland Uber Alles, called one of the attendees of the meeting - the chief executive of the Daily Telegraph - a "miserable little shit" and offered him the chance to sort out their disgareements outside. Sadly he didn't do it by asking "Do you wanna take it to ver cobbles, you fakkin' cant?".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1201476,00.html