Archive for November 2007

Gift Ideas for Blokes – 2

Friday, 30 November 2007

Stumped for something for the idolater in your life? How about a Jesus and Mo tea or coffee mug*? At $12.99, one religious insult for the price of two (think about it) and a hot beverage receptacle to boot. * Not available in Sudan. Teddy bears need not apply. May contain nuts.

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Gift Ideas for Blokes – 1

Thursday, 29 November 2007

I read an article in the Manchester Evening News today about how hopeless women are at buying Christmas prezzies for the various blokes in their lives. The author (no online so I can’t link) wrote about the £125 monogrammed hipflask she’d bought fought for her father-in-law despite the fact that a) he only leaves his sheltered housing to buy a paper, b) only lifts his eyes from the crossword to watch Countdown and Weakest Link and c) doesn’t drink.

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Bite the Hand that Feeds…

Monday, 26 November 2007

And doesn’t it feel good! Best PR of the year must go to Emma Clarke, the Voice of the Tube, having a go at London for the crap place it really is. I had planned on sharing some of her wit and wisdom, but her site has gone down under the sheer weight of traffic following the publicity today. I do remember “We’d like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly.” She does a decent blog too.

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Fantasy Football

Saturday, 24 November 2007

I don’t know if you read the late Jack Pulman‘s Private Schultz, or saw the tv series, the story of a hapless German conman who had, by his own admission, an inbuilt stumble because he always fell just before the finishing line. I’ve only just had the heart to post about this, but do you think that the England team have the same problem? Having been handed not one, but two miracles, it took something special to throw it all away against Croatia. Mind you, it seems that the sign [...]

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All the Best Lads

Friday, 23 November 2007

I normally bar all mention of Christmas so far ahead of the event as there are plenty of people to make us heartedly sick of the whole thing before we even get to Stir-up Sunday. (3 December this year by my reckoning) “Seasonal” calendars in the shops, supermarkets decked out in tinsel and the telly advertising everything from sofas to Christmas trees.

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Down the Drain

Monday, 19 November 2007

The Advertising Standards Authority had a pop at Bosch last week over an ad that claimed a fully loaded dishwasher uses a quarter of the water of washing-up by hand. The ASA ruled that hand washing-up could be more water and energy efficient than using a white goods appliance, but I’m not convinced.

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Al Anon

Friday, 16 November 2007

Well that’s my name for them, the folk who leave comments without saying who they are. I can only assume that they do that in case you start stalking their comments pages. I promise you that that isn’t something I would do — it is a pretty tedious pastime. I don’t delete anonymous comments unless I think they are either mindless or offensive to the reader rather than me, so those on Caught in the Flashlight remain, but I did want to reiterate both Anon’s comments and my reply. Sorry [...]

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Killer Facts

Thursday, 15 November 2007

If you know me by now you’ll know that I love the obscure. And you often find them in the most obscure places. Today it was the Mail. Okay, so it was an easy full-page lift from Any Questions Answered which sounds like another book to add to the Christmas list.

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Snap Shot

Wednesday, 14 November 2007

I’ve added a new facility, namely Snap Shots. Hover your cursor over a link and window opens up to tell you what to expect. Really future stuff? Nowhere near. But it is cute.

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