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• It Was All Hideously Worse Than I Had Imagined

  I do not pretend to have any detailed or specialist knowledge on the Afghan campaign. However, it became very clear, very quickly, that the whole thing was an A... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Yes, I Know, AWOL - Again!

  Sorry, sorry, sorry but yesterday was one of those days! A fairly major shopping expedition was required in the morning and as I was feeling a bit 'crook' I... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Christmas Puzzle!

  

  'Ha-ha!', or should that be 'Ho-ho!', anyway, bet you don't know what that is! And if I tell you that it an example of Benesh notation I'll bet you still don't... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 15.12.14

  Your 'Funnies' are up early this morning just in case 'Pops' gives me another bollacking for being late! Actually, the first two aren't 'Funnies' in the joke... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• If You Are Feeling Delicate - DO NOT READ THIS POST!

  I mean it, this is truly stomach-churning stuff so if you are easily upset then just skip it! I join with Tom Trinko at The American Thinker in finding the... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Grand Old Duke of York Runs America

  

  For the benefit of perhaps my puzzled American readers let me give you the full lyric: Oh, The grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men; He marched them... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Will the Real Adolph Eichmann Please Stand Up?

  Well, not literally, of course, given that he was hanged by the neck in 1962, but perhaps in the 'literary' sense now that a second major book has been publishe... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Looneyrama #1

  I have numbered the heading to this post because I am going to try and collect the daftest daft things our leaders can, and do, dream up from the bottom of thei... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Oborne Goes Euro Apocalyptic

  

  As my older readers, and my archive checker, 'JK', will confirm, I have long maintained that it will probably be Italy that acts as a catalyst for the final... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Damn, but Those Titchy Things Blow My Mind!

  

  Tuesday night, slumped in my armchair and idly clicking around on my 'magical-do-flicker-thingie' I came across a real 'baldy-bonce' called Prof. Jim Al-Khalili. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Well, My Christmas Was Ruined So I'm Going to Ruin Yours!

  It doesn't matter how old and cynical you get, we all cling to a few shreds of fairytale magic. One of mine is 'El Sistema', the movement in Venezuela which,... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "I Am Shocked, I Tell You, Shocked!"

  

  No, President Humbug did not actually use those words but they were the essence of his message to the American people yesterday following the publication of... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Should Senator Dianne Feinstein Be Waterboarded?

  

  Well of course not, it would ruin her very expensive hair-do, or is it, dare I suggest, a wig? Well, I think it must be because the thrice-married, old bat is... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Hostages Are Rarely of Operational Importance - Get Used to It!

  Before I begin I should make clear that my hard-hearted title does not refer to situations in which the hostages are held in territory controlled by us, for... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• South Africa: A Disaster Waiting to Happen?

  I carefully placed a question mark at the end of my title because what I know about South Africa could be written on a postage stamp! However, it is the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Some Royal Etiquette Tips for 'JK'

  Of course, there is only one piece of news of any importance at the moment and that is the fact that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, aka, Will 'n' Kate, are... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 8.12.14

  Oh God, now I've got 'Pops' in a comment thread below nagging me because the Monday Funnies are late! Quite right, of course, and I have no excuse except... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which 'Rupe' Gets His Own Back

  I think 'Rupe' has it in for me. I told you some time ago that I had fallen out with my ex-best friend, 'Rupe' Murdoch, because I could no longer keep him, his... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• He Went Looking for Racism - and Found It!

  Or, to be precise, racism found him! Incidentally, this post reeks of irony but not all irony is humorous and as this tells the story of the murder of an... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Bad Day for America but a Good Day for Us

  

  I can only raise a glass of good cheer to agree with Andrew B. Wilson's article in The American Spectator today entitled "Thanks, Hirohito, We Needed That". Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY