BBC: Duck cull ruffles feathers The [UK] government is planning a nationwide cull of ruddy ducks to protect another species from extinction. Forget the ruddy ducks, when are we going to cull some ruddy cats?
Nonsense
Something I could have done without
New entry on my list of items I would like to see consigned to Room 101: Having your clutch cable snap on a motorway approach-road roundabout.
DNA poem
DNA poem
Tate doors
The entrance to the Liverpool Tate Gallery has twin revolving doors, one marked IN, the other marked OUT. Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole point of having revolving doors in the first place?
Loonies
One drawback of running a Charles Darwin website is that you occasionally get pestered by religious loonies. Such a problem did it become at one stage that I went so far as to publish a polite note on the site, explaining why I won't be wasting any more of my time crossing swords with them… Continue reading Loonies
Simply (D)Red(ful)
I've just been watching Parky. Correct me if I'm wrong, but: Mick Hucknall = Talentless, ruby-toothed ginner. His name also happens to be an anagram of lick lank chum, but let's not go there.
Oversight
BBC: Pub industry faces blurred futureDwindling visits to village locals coupled with a slowing of the High Street pub boom are taking their toll on the pub industry. "Use them or lose them," says the Campaign for Real Ale as it launches National Pubs Week… Top attractions at a pub: The people Quality Food Friendly… Continue reading Oversight
BBC redesigns its news site
They've just ruined one of the best sites on the Internet. Never mind the content, feel the width. Disaster.
The Subjunctive
Challenge posed in an email from Stense: …I spent yesterday musing about why I thought 'If I were you' was more grammatically correct than 'If I was you' - answers on a postcard please! An excellent challenge! So I sent her a post card (printed in very small letters), which went as follows: Stense, You… Continue reading The Subjunctive
Ape-shit
BBC (01-Jan-03): Ape 'learns to talk'