New England Badge

This is from grumpy old Tory The Lakelander who can be relied upon for a funny pic or three! I’m still trying to get over the fact that Terry’s ex girlfriend rejoices in the spectacular name “Shalimar Wimble”

The Funny Farm 21

Those of you who keep a close eye around here will notice a comment or two from Stu Who? the comedian. Those of a certain age in Scotland will remember Stu’s cutting edge TV show in the late 80′s “The Funny Farm”. Well at this year’s Magners Comedy Festival there is a Funny Farm Reunion, [...]

A Touch of Frost – and Clough

I listen a lot to speech based radio and last week I was interested in a programme discussing the Kraft takeover of Cadbury’s and the wider point of how so many confectionery companies (Cadbury’s, Rowntrees, Terry’s of York, Fry’s etc) were owned by Quakers despite that religion making up less than 0.1% of the population in the [...]

Robin Cook’s Crystal Ball

“You’d have been hard pushed to find anyone who didn’t think he (Saddam) had WMD.” – Tony Blair at the Chilcot enquiry. The following passage is from Robin Cook’s resignation speech on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Inexplicably the speech contains a paragraph expressing support for Blair. One can only assume that some [...]

The Revolving Door

I watched the Friday night STV football retrospective about 1998 and the formation of the SPL. Of course in those heady days there were only a few of us who were pointing out that there were clubs spending more than their total income on transfer fees and wages. Clearly this could not continue. The subsequent [...]

The Weekend Waits – On the Nickel

I’d like to do a new song here. This is uh… it’s about downtown Los Angeles on 5th Street and… all the winos uh… affectionately refer to it as The Nickel. So this is kind of a hobo’s lullaby. It says sticks and stones can break my bones but I always will be true And [...]

Tosser Makes Good Point

What Kid Rock is trying to say here I think, is if you’re going to steal his “music” and think it doesn’t matter because he’s rich, then steal anything you like. Go on! Ipods, computers, cars or old Warren Zevon and Skynyrd riffs! It’s ok! Thanks to my blogfriend Ken Fitlike

More BBC Comedy

I was just reading here about how there has been a realisation that the war in Afghanistan is intractable and the the Taliban will have to be bought off with £100 million. the conflict in Afghanistan has entered a new phase and that there is to be an attempt at “reaching out” to “disenchanted brothers” [...]

Pyjama Party?

Remember when there was a time and a place for everything? Creme eggs came out a few weeks before Easter, no one had thought of combining the phrase “all day” with “breakfast”, new car registrations had a new letter on them on August 1st, the shops shut at 5:30 and people ate at mealtimes? (instead [...]

The Polis. Surely They Have Something Better To Do?

After the tales a few weeks ago of curlers in Dumfries-shire being charged with reckless conduct for er…curling, News reaches TBLFP (via The Ayrshire Post ) of a Prestwick businessman being booked and issued with a statutory fine for blowing his nose in his car. The car was in a traffic jam in Ayr High [...]