I’ll Bet He Loves His Parents

Indeed.
Have a look at this article published earlier in the year by the BBC about the changing situation in the southern Iraqi town of Basra.
A double take may be required on the name of the Major featured in the article.

Playboy in Braile

This comes from b3ta which is one of the most consistently tasteless, yet occasionally funny sites in the UK.
I’ve checked and it is apparently 100% genuine.

Show Me the Way!

Recently in the Seventies Cheese series, I featured Peter Frampton playing Show Me the Way.
Thanks to Russell my north eastern cultural correspondent I can now bring you this most remarkable version of the song by “manualist” Jerry Philips :

Edit:
And Stairway to Heaven!

As Russell points out, this is [...]

And on the Subject of Television

Of course I don’t watch much telly. I waste the time I would otherwise waste watching rubbish on the broacast media, typing rubbish here.
When I do decide to watch it is on our flat screen telly which has a great picture and we have the Sky thing (plus?) which costs an arm and a leg [...]

More Shoplifting

I’ve heard this is a common modus operandi of shoplifters.
A trolley load of shopping is collected at the supermarket and paid for. The purchaser passes the receipt to an accomplice who  goes in and takes an already assembled identical trolley of shopping whilst the original purchaser makes away with the original trolley load.
The accomplice, if [...]

Pay Attention Class!

Apropos my posting on middle class shoplifting and the  raw nerves which were touched, an old TV sketch kept coming to mind:

I was amused recently when John Prescott (see TBLFP passim) did his series about class. He was in a high rise (in London I think) with some single mothers and [...]

Middle Class Shoplifting

Interesting article in this morning’s Telegraph:
(The middle class) are responsible for a surge in the crime to new heights, the annual study by the Centre for Retail Research for retail security company Checkpoint Systems found.
The average shoplifting ‘bill’ now tops £80, while shoplifting has risen by 20 per cent in the last year to £4.88 [...]

Cop Movie

From Ananova
Police who put out images of football thugs mistakenly included the faces of actors from hooligan movie The Firm.
Officers used a Sky TV report to capture images of fans involved in riots at the West Ham v Millwall cup clash in August.
But because they turned off the sound they failed to realise the report [...]

Drum Machine?

Tom Marley in Canada sends me this quite brilliant clip.

Tom is brother of Harmonica Lewinsky’s drummer Martin!
Cue for the drummer jokes:
What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians?
a drummer!
How do you tell if the stage is level?
The drummer is [...]

Anybody Notice?

I wonder if it’s just me but I can’t help noticing all the notices pinned up around the place. For instance we went to Keswick swimming pool/leisure centre the other day and there was a plethora of notices.
As well as the normal rules and regulations that you would expect of a swimming pool, there were [...]