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COULD BRUSSELS BUREAUCRATS GIVE BRITAIN’S SWANS CANCER?

January 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life

The question comes from the remarkable Daily Mail Headline Generator (AKA The Daily Mail-o-matic) which I thoroughly recommend as a good way to pass a few idle moments.

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Dumb

December 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life

How do you make a Tory cross?

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Hitler’s in the Charts Again

November 21st, 2008 · 7 Comments · Life, Politics

This is the funniest thing I have seen all week…  thanks to the comedy genius who did and for Paulie and Damian, without whom I would not have been aware of it. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I have now seen so many Downfall parodies I feel I […]

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A Different Point Of View

November 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics

For election liveblogging with a difference, pop over to Chase me ladies, I’m the cavalry. Always guaranteed to have his own perspective…

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Don’t Bring Me Down

October 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Don’t Bring Me Down · Life

Wouldn’t it be fun if TV interviewers had a trapdoor button under their desk, like all good Bond villains, so that if they didn’t like an interviewee they could send them down to the crocodile pool?  Looks like they do in South Africa.  OK, they say it was just a collapsing chair, but has anybody […]

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Capital (It Fails Us Now)

October 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life

Heard on Rick Wakeman’s show on Planet Rock: Q: What’s the capital of Iceland? A: £1.24

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Best quiz story ever?

July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Best quiz story ever? · Life

I have just seen this anecdote over at the Word website, about the perils of playing the joker in a pub quiz.  Is it the best quiz story ever?

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Happiness Tsar

June 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Happiness Tsar · Life

No its not Tom Watson, but a chap called Richard Layard.  I must admit I had never heard of him and didn’t know that such a thing as a ‘happiness tsar’ even existed, but that’s not the point.  There was a story about him in the G2 section of today’s Guardian, that led me down […]

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Brains work best…

May 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life

Is this the best advert on TV at the moment? The only thing that could have made it better is if there had been a close-up of him opening the bottle that featured real hands.

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Run the red light

April 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics

This game must be old news, but I only stumbled across it this evening.  Great fun, but quite difficult, and nearly as good as the knife-throwing game.  Basically, you have to control ‘Dangerous Dave’ Cameron on his bike.

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