Tag: humour
member name: Ian Thorpe
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December 29, 2007 11:54 AM EST --
It may be in rather bad taste to mention this ? but when has that ever stopped me?
We could not help noticing a sub-headline to on of the reports of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto read "Pakistan's . . .
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July 14, 2006 01:18 PM EDT --
All of these are legitimate companies dealing in regular products and services, but they didn't think their domain names through. Some of them are prime candidates for the "What was I thinking?" . . .
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December 07, 2007 11:23 AM EST --
I could never quite make my mind up about Will Smith and until now never understood why. He was funny in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and as a stand up and turned in competent performances in films like . . .
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July 27, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
I was not going to do anything here today, I just checked in to look at my messages. In the inbox was a question from Dame Ruth, a very good question that deserved an equally good answer. So, opening . . .
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November 22, 2007 12:04 PM EST --
British Chain Store Marks & Spencer is putting J-cup bras on sale for the first time as customers demand larger sizes. The chain is trialling the garments on the internet before deciding whether . . .
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December 05, 2007 11:38 AM EST --
We owe some sympathy to Maurice Fox a retired bus driver from Paignton, Devon, who likes nothing better than to enjoy a few drinks in the company of his friends at the local social club. Mr Fox has been . . .
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December 28, 2007 12:44 PM EST --
Did you hear about the Zen Buddhist who went into Starbucks and said, "Make me one with everything."
That's all I have the energy for today.
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March 19, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
I guess the McCartney divorce story has hit news bulletins around the world now...
Mr. McCartney was sleeping fitfully in his lonely bed, drifting in and out of dreams, taunted by . . .
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November 10, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
Munching my brunch of scrambled free range eggs on wholemeal bread and sipping my fair trade Orange Juice yesterday, I sumbled upon a TV show in which a “western” Feng Shui expert was . . .
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December 10, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
How would you feel if someone close to your heart presented you with a bucket of shit for Christmas. Grounds for divorce, you might think, or at least a suspension of conjugal rights? Such a reaction . . .
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January 02, 2008 01:03 PM EST --
Don't we love all the predictions that are trotted out at this time of year and all those talking heads who queue up to tell us what will happen in the coming months. They are never right of course, . . .
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July 05, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
NOTE: this is not about an Irishman, the fictional name just happened to pop into my head while I was looking for sometjing that scanned. His real name is Carl Purseglove, he is a well known local character . . .
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November 27, 2006 01:38 PM EST --
The American love of flags is often remarked on by comedians all round the world.
To help Americans of the patriotic right to kick their flag habit here is a very funny post by Liz Davies featuring . . .
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March 05, 2008 03:13 PM EST --
Just came from Sheryl O's page where a post about blasphemy laws in the UK has moved to an Intelligent Design versus evolution debate.
These always remind me of the fundie who visited my UK blog . . .
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June 17, 2009 01:40 PM EDT --
It is that time of year again when our thoughts turn to a recuperative and invigorationg trip to the sea shore. Whether your idea of a good holiday is losts of swimming, water sports, long walks . . .
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September 19, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
On September 19 every year at Boggart Blog, the UK blog where my sister and I demonstrate day after day that it is perfectly possible to e completely, utterly and joyously mad while still being . . .
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December 06, 2008 09:28 AM EST --
Though worth reading for the laughs I'll be honest, this is a shameless plug for my friend Carla Dodd's new business. It is too late for me to get any of Carla's stuff sent over in time for . . .
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December 12, 2008 01:19 PM EST --
With somebody named Blagojevich in the news it seems a good time to introduce a you to a new new word, Blag.
Blag, according to the Oxford English Dictionary is a verb that originated in . . .
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May 05, 2009 03:26 PM EDT --
Lend an ear as I tell of, Van Goch,
the artist cut his lug'ole right off
Said his friend Gaugin
I'm a reasonable man
an apology would have been enough,
Everybody knows the . . .
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December 23, 2007 01:36 PM EST --
What the Dickens
(A fragment of a previously unknown part-work by Charles Dickens, the manuscript was discovered during redevelopment of an old building in Clerkenwell, London)
In the first chapter . . .
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