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Scallywagga
I've become increasingly suspicious of people who do things "ironically" lately. Too often this concept of irony is held up as a kind of rhetorical ejector seat, propelling someone to safety when they've said something they shouldn't and don't want to take responsibility for it. In TV shows this is often a free licence to say what you want; that ( Read more... ) -
Garfield Minus Garfield
Did you ever wonder what the Garfield strips might look like if Garfield was edited out of them?
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You boy!
After twelve months and four rejections, I've finally been offered a place at a teacher training college. Score! -
Ed's first corpse
So my journey home today was slightly disrupted when, just as my train was arriving at the station, an old lady a little way further down the platform decided to end it all by lying down on the tracks.
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Poking Fun
I thought that Charlie Brooker's latest article was so good (and important) that it's worth reproducing in full.
Heat magazine - the tittering idiot's lunchbreak-pamphlet-of-choice - has caused a bad stink by printing a collection of comedy stickers in its latest issue. Said stickers are clearly designed to be stuck round the ( Read more... ) -
Quotation of the month
From a BBC News story about Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher in Sudan sentenced to 15 days in jail for allowing her seven year-old students to name their class teddy bear Muhammad:
Sudan's top clerics had called for the full measure of the law to be used against Mrs Gibbons and labelled her actions part of a Western plot against Islam.
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You heard it it here first
Foxes know, apparently, according to the strangely ominous piece of graffiti that's just appeared at the bottom of my road.
Don't say I didn't warn you. -
The ghost of summers past
Back in May 2004, having just finished my first year as an undergraduate, I had the address on my bills changed temporarily so that I could still pay them on time over the long summer holiday. I'm conscientious like that. When I returned to Bristol that September, I had the address reset again.
Except that, three years later, I'm still getting bills ( Read more... )
