I reckon that Andrea Leadsom's chances in the Conservative Party leadership race would get a significant nominative-deterministic boost if she were to change the pronunciation of her surname from "led some" to "leads 'em".

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It's been more than six months since the last, so it's well past time for oh-ghods-not-another one of my Stupid Lists.

I briefly caught a programme on Radio 4 calling itself ‘Pick of the Weak-minded’, in the style of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. What could be more British than self-deprecating titles for Radio 4 programmes? Some of them are that way ( Read more... )

Ok, so all that thinking about monkeys and apes and Simiiformes has got me thinking sillier thoughts. So here is a stupid lists of songs that are not about such creatures but should be ( Read more... )

Oh no, another stupid list post. Actually, looking back, it seems it's been six months since my last so I'm hardly flooding you with them. And it's Friday, which is a good time for such silliness ( Read more... )

There are, it turns out, a large number of vegetables who hold positions of authority. No, really - see the list below ( Read more... )

My journal has of late been rather filled with fairly serious and/or child-focused stuff ( Read more... )

Feeling Summery. Am I wrong to want Freddie Flintoff to have a heroin-fueled SM affair with Alyson Hannigan just so the tabloids can scream "Smack and leather and Willow"?

One of **FIXME's breakfasts is Spelt Flakes. I keep thinking there must also be Misspelt Flaickes.

"Donald Dusang" would be a great but rubbish name for a vampire trying to go incognito.

I said about 18 months ago that a credit bust wasn't far away. I wasn't entirely wrong there ( Read more... )