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.
Nonsense
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'
Near-Death Experience
I was carrying out some diagnostic work with an electrical meter yesterday, trying to work out why the light over my bed still wasn't working after I had re-connected a loose wire. I wasn't quite careful enough with my probe, and the room lit up for a brief instant. As near-death experiences go, I'd give… Continue reading Near-Death Experience
Premonition
I had a strange, whisky-induced dream last night: I was in a cow shed with a farmer friend of mine, and drank water from a rusty old ladel, realising it would give me a sore throat. When I woke up, I had a humdinger of a sore throat. Less sceptical people than myself would say… Continue reading Premonition
Prediction Comes True: "Half-contrary gin"
Another prediction comes true. This is getting too easy: Daily Telegraph: They can't mean us [02-Jan-03]"It is sad that someone should make that statement; it is a bit divisive. I admit there is an element of the gin and Jag brigade, but they don't dominate. You've also got people living in council houses." The UK… Continue reading Prediction Comes True: "Half-contrary gin"
Prediction Comes True: "Lift angry anchor"
I don't believe it. Another of my 'predictions' for the year has already come true: TwinCities.com: WCCO Farewell Ends with Hard Feelings [03-Jan-03] [V]eteran anchor Bill Carlson … read his last script as anchor of the [WCCO-TV] station's noon news. That's veteran TV news anchorman, Bill Carlson, who has been lifted from his show after… Continue reading Prediction Comes True: "Lift angry anchor"
Plus ça change
From The Victorians by A.N. Wilson, p. 179 (concerning the Crimean War): [Times journalist, William Howard] Russell's dispatches had revealed a miserable, unheroic, ramshackle campaign presided over by old men. Lord Raglan, fluent in French as he was, and genial, had a distressing habit - born of his youthful years of serving under Wellington -… Continue reading Plus ça change