Monthly archives: November 2003
Happy Finish
From Popbitch via I Love Trouble
Happy Finish for the Monarchy
Can’t a Prince get relief these days?
Poor Prince Charles. That ghastly butler is going around telling tales, and everyone says that Burrell has other stories that will bring down the Monarchy.
Surely they can’t be referring to Charles getting “happy finish” massages from his valet? Charles is a product of Britain’s boarding school system, so it’s only natural that from time to time he’d ask the servants to apply some spit and polish to his crown jewels.
From The Observer earlier this year: “An embarrassed St James’s Palace official suggested after the Burrell trial that Fawcett was on leave. However, colleagues say he has just been ‘keeping his head down’.”
So there. It wasn’t all about a game of Seabiscuit after all.
Dog kills the master with one gunshot
Badly translated from Corriere dell Sera–
The man lived to Espelette, in the Basque countries
Dog kills its landladies with a rifle shot
France: the animal jumps on the left arm loads on the back of the car. It leave projects them that it kills the hunter
PARIS – a dog that bites a man, knows news not ago. But if the dog kills its landladies with a rifle shot the news sure deserves to be told.
DYNAMICS OF THE INCIDENT – a French hunter has been killed from a blow of firearm shot from its dog that he is jumped on the trigger of the arm after that the man had left its gun from hunting in the back with the own car inavvertitamente loaded. The man, that he lived in the village of Espelette in the Basque region, has been lead monday to the hospital in the near hurt city of Bayonne with of firearm the flank. “While he was guiding one of its dogs it has accidentally made to leave the blow”, has said one source of the police
All I was doing was looking for the Prince Charles story (scandale del principe charles)
Jonesing
Of course, Indy wouldn’t have needed to use infra red to find Llactapata after it was accidentally mislaid by another explorer in 1912.
Seabiscuit
A film about a horse. I avoid films about horses, but seeing it in the listings did prompt the quote of the night-
“Seabiscuit? Isn’t that something they do at posh schools? Y’know, where they all form a circle around a Digestive and…..”
Finish it for yourselves. Simon did, and now he has to carry that image around.
Revolutions was cool, and made much more sense than Reloaded. In fact, Reloaded will probably make a lot more sense if I go back and watch it again now. Hmmm, IMAX.
Lest We Forget
Armistice Day is next week. Support the British Legion, God knows with the current government, they’ve got their work cut out.
Indescribable
Just what is it that Prince Charles didn’t do? Personally I want to start a rumour about HRH, a goat and Camilla (who was only wearing one of those big hats the Palace guards have). But I could be wrong. Feel free to add your own interpretations of the alleged royal hi-jinks we’re not allowed to hear about.
Shit Floats
A recent study shows that as much as 80% of workers aren’t suited to their job and are incompetent to some extent.
While 45% of staff are relatively harmless in their incompetence – merely working at “low levels of productivity” between each coffee break – the biggest danger are the 37% of staff who think they are the bees’ knees but are actually rubbish.
That 37%, that’s middle management that is.
via Plastic.com
Photo Friday
This week’s theme is Downtown, which is one of those American phrases I don’t think I fully understand, so here’s a picture from under the Mancunian Way.
Heavensent Chapter 2
Only 10 cents (about 6 pence?), you know its worth it.
DEx
More stating the obvious
Not that Manchester businesses suffer the highest rate of sick days in the country, but-
….Friday and Monday were the days most commonly missed because of illness.
Another link courtesy of Rag
Life, the Universe and quite a lot
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is to return to the radio next spring. The original radio cast, apart from Peter Jones (the voice of the book), are reuniting for Life, the Universe and Everything. This should be followed by an 8 part series combining ‘So long and thanks for all the fish’ and ‘Mostly Harmless’ later in the year. However I’m guessing they’re not going to reopen the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for the sound FX and music.
Productive Morning?
Well, sort of. I’ve started my bumper bonanza free listing day sale on EBay, at least.
Music to make sales by-
Abdoujaparov- Air Odeon Disco Pub
Meatloaf- Bat Out Of Hell
Poppies
A heartwarming tale in the run up to Remembrance Sunday. Lance Corporal James Lovell, 104, is the last surviving recipient of the Military Medal from World War 1. The WW1 Veterans’ Association was pleased to discover that, contrary to their records, he is still alive.
It makes me just feel like crying, (baby)
Bobby Hatfield, one half of the Righteous Brothers, has died.
You’ve lost that loving feeling- The Righteous Brothers
So I shot – I shot – I shot him down
A Canadian lawyer is facing disciplinary action after bursting into song as he left the courtroom. It’s not the karaoke that the complaint is about, more the appropriateness of the tune to the case.
I Shot The Sheriff- Bob Marley
Earth Shattering Ka-Boom
As the daily fireworks display starts up in Longsight, it’s quite interesting to read just how much damage the Gunpowder Plot would have inflicted.
Flashback
I remember propping up the bar in Sharansky’s with Rob improv’ing stuff about Robert Maxwell’s death. Was it really twelve years ago?
I still miss Rob when I get little reminders like this.
Wedding boyfriend
With Sabs and Griff’s nuptials imminent, you never know.