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• 'IS You IS Or IS You Ain't My Enemy?'

  My title comes with an apology to the late Louis Jordan who co-wrote the original song back in the '40s. The 'IS' in my version, of course, refers to the bunch... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Dave's 'Churchillian Moment' is Nigh!

  Of course, even by my hyperbolic standards that is a pretty silly title because the original 'Churchill moment' came some 74 years ago when this country stood i... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Start Your Day with a Cold Shower from Charles Moore

  Go on, you know it'll do you good! There's nothing quite like standing under a steady stream of ice-cold intelligence to wash away the confusions and... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "A Most Wanted Man" - Dir: Anton Corbijn

  

  Last night I went to see the film version of John le Carré's book of the same title. Checking my records I am shocked to see that it was four and a half years... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Very Different and Altogether More Tragic Pte. Pike

  Of course, Brit readers familar with the TV series Dad's Army, arguably the greatest comic group ever invented since Dogberry and his clapped-out watchmen in... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Australia: ALERT - INCOMING BROWN STUFF!

  

  An urgent message for my Aussie pals and palettes. I don't know what you have done to deserve this but over the weekend you are about to be hit by a bucketful o... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Goodbye, Debbo, Darling!

  

  It is odd how certain fleeting images impinge themselves on the memory. One such for me was my visit many years ago to Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• See, That's Why I'm So Brilliant!

  

  Of course, you will already have noticed how my near genius - well, I don't like to boast, you see - shines through the elegant but piercingly insightful prose... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Feeling Cheerful? I'll Soon Put a Stop to That!

  

  'Dave 'n' George' will no doubt enjoy laying into the 'Milipede' for his crass speech yesterday and the fact that, quite literally, he had nothing to say about... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Government of the 35%, by the 35%, for the 35%

  That, according to the 'experts' I have read, is the sum total of Labour's election 'strategy'. Just concentrate on the core Labour vote, pick up as many... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Are We Obsessed with WWII? And If Not, Why Not?

  According to The Telegraph, some swot from the British Museum thinks we are obsessed with WWII and that the Germans are "bewildered" by it. Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame"

  'Our Will' used those words in Sonnet 129 to describe the shame of illicit sex with 'The Dark Lady'. However, they will also do nicely to sum up the contents... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Ivor Brown Must Be Conserved

  Ivor - who, I hear you mutter? Well, when I saw his name on the cover of a slim book simply entitled Shakespeare I must admit that the name did ring some very... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Ed Laurel and Ed Hardy

  

  I tell you this year's panto season party political conference season is going to be the most hilarious in decades! Yesterday the 'Bruvvers' raised the curtain... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 22.9.14

  

  This first 'joke' is an effort to raise the standard of English grammar employed here at D N: On his 74th birthday Tom got a gift certificate from his wife. Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 21.9.14

  

  It's not idleness, honestly! I enter that plea in mitigation early because I may not get around to depositing too many gems of wisdom on today's Sunday Rumble. Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave . . ."

  

  '. . .when first we practice to devolve'! So the 'fat wee chancer', the utterly malignant Alec Salmond, has departed and good riddance, say I. Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Buy Cotton Futures!

  Not just one but two reports now in from my intrepid 'Arkie' correspondent, 'JK'. I don't quite understand why there is always such a long interval between thes... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Boo-hoo for Barney Magroo

  

  Poor old Barney, after all those years spent up 'in them thar hills' come rain or shine (er, that's moonshine) providing aid and comfort to his fellow 'Arkies'... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Winners and Losers

  Thank God it's over! It was beginning to sound like a recording of a bagpiper on loop-feed playing the same old dirge over and over and over. If I never hear... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY