Today's recipe from Chef de Bloke*, your personal guide to Cordon Blur cookery.

It's asparagus season, so here's a great quick tasty dinner. You'll need:

• some fresh asparagus
• gnocchi
• jar of pesto sauce
• cheapo sachet of pitted olives, or failing that, a handful from the jar.

First, put the kettle on ( Read more... )

From JOHN CLEESE [allegedly ( Read more... )

Yes, it's another piece of Internet hmour, but it's semi-serious and rather insightful. I thought it worth sharing, despite what I am sure is overly-simplistic analysis, trivial mockery of complex concepts, etc.

I swear I will not make this a habit.

Helga is the proprietor of a bar in Europe.

She realizes that virtually all of her customers are ( Read more... )

(Yes, it's an internet joke. However, I thought it was well done and rather amusing ( Read more... )

(Nicked from here and copy-edited, because I found the original just painful to read ( Read more... )

Or, movies that transform your mind into mush. Or toys that transform children into customers.

So ednun took me to see Transformers 2 in Camden tonight. He wanted to go to a showing with audio description, which is fair enough, and as his helper, I got in for free, so that was cool. Thanks, man ( Read more... )

Just had to dig this out for a mate of mine and thought I'd share it.

One of my favourite webcomics from what were (for me) the early days, around 2000-2002.

Flem Comics: the site that brought you the immortal Hank, The Dancing Abortion.

Specifically, Flem on Mormon-hunting:


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How I Met My WifeIt had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, ( Read more... )

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique in its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy five thousand pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that 'it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement that you get from ( Read more... )

Not Always RightA brief example ( Read more... )