Charlie Brooker's just Twittered a recommendation, of sorts, for The Daily Mail website for *really* obscure titty froth. Tits you've never even heard of.

Am, now earwormed with a song about being "horny", with a keyword chorus of "orni-orni-thology". Brilliant.

Colin was shocked to receive the call. He didn't think he could even GET signal in a central London theatre basement.


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Bewilderingly, Thom was better at hide and seek than most competitors who honed their skills at an early age, able to disappear utterly whenever someone ELSE closed their eyes.


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There is much to like about this story of the American pelican swept into Canada by a hurricane and found outside a stripjoint.

The Dreamworks movie-ness of it all.

The current quest to get him space on a jet to get him home.

This kind of quote, from a carer:
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The Futility Closet has listed a few words from Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, that have rather fallen out of use in the last few hundred years.

They include:
* pissburnt: stained with urine
* blinkard: one that has bad eyes
* longimanous: long-handed; having long hands
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Wish the new Audi Suzi Quatro had written more VERB THE NOUN songs, along the line of aluminium recycling classic Can The Can. (Tis possible she cannae. No a canny wench, that un, eh?)

Say, for example...

• An anti-heroin pop smash Junk The Junk, to be later misconstrued as racist towards Chinese boats, like that’s even a real thing.
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Nice to see some literal new ground being covered in consideration of the Gershwins' 'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off' in Christoph Niemann's illustration...


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Oh lawks, just found this Tumblr: Things people don't say about advertising (tbdsaa)


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Al Murray saw a poster for This Morning: The Movie Morning Glory and grinned that it's being puffed as "from the writer of the Devil Wears Prada and the director of Notting Hill", reckoning "that advert contains all the info I need ( Read more... )

I watched all of the Royal Varieties on Saturday, Christmas wrapping. Well, on ffwd. Am thus aware Paloma Faith doesn’t seem to know that the Kinks ‘Lola’ is about a transvestite, or that that song doesn’t work as a duet. Also got to spend overmuch time thinking about Take That. Vis:

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