Davidduff

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• This Energy Stuff Leaves Me Knackered

  I might as well warn you now that this is one of my pointless, meandering posts, usually an indication that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm scribbling... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Tsk! What's with All These Damn Questions?!

  Just when the 'Warmers' thought they had enough collaborators to sit firmly on the lid of any opposition to their propositions that the earth was warming and... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Budget Report

  For the benefit of my many foreign readers let me explain that today is Budget Day. This used to be an important parliamentary occasion in which the Chancellor... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Plucky Little Belgium, Or What?

  

  Oh dear, off I go again scribbling about a subject that is way above my pay grade - not, mind you, that I get paid for this rubbish. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• There's Big, Then There's Bigger, Then There's the Eastern Front 1944

  I am slowly slogging my way through Lloyd Clark's excellent Kursk: The Greatest Battle. If I describe it as a 'slog' it is not a criticism of Mr. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• So How Come Nancy Sleeps with Him and Not Me?

  

  I refer, of course, to the open-hearted - yes, the word is 'hearted' and I do the jokes round here! - Nancy Dell'Ollio who appears to sleep with almost... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which I Bitch!

  Well, on consideration 'bitch' sounds a bit girlie so given my gender, age and disposition perhaps 'grump' might be a better word. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Handbags at Dawn!

  (I have been busy-busy in recent days and thus I have not responded fully to the many interesting - and amusing - comments to my earlier post on this subject.... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funnies: 17.3.14

  This one, I am informed, is specially for DM: A golfer is cupping his hand to scoop water from a Highland burn on the StAndrews course.A groundskeeper shouts:... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Suddenly the Ice Has Become Exceedingly Thin!

  I have little time this morning because I'm off 'up country' to lunch with 'SoD'. However, I just wanted to mention that I distinctly heard the ice creaking as... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Tony Benn: Good Riddance of Bad (political) Rubbish #2

  The 'Grim Reaper' seems to be working overtime this week. First, the politically malevolent Bob Crowe (see two posts below) and then the equally malevolent... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Malaysian Malfeasance?

  I deliberately place a question mark behind my title because, just like about everbody else in the world, I haven't a clue what happened to that missing... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Bob Crow: Good Riddance to Bad (political) Rubbish

  I add the word 'political' because I know nothing of Bob Crow the private man. The Mail reports that he had been married with three children before taking up... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Bar-room Brawl to End All Bar-room Brawls!

  I am grateful to my pal, 'Richard of Russia', for finding this but, alas, I couldn't work out how to copy and paste it here in its original form so you will jus... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your (late) Monday Funnies: 10.3.14

  Sorry for the delay - events, and all that! The first one is ex-Andra who gave me a rollicking for losing it inside my computer-thingie: A lawyer and a senior... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Why Hasn't the Other Shoe Dropped?

  The exultant doom-sayers, which includes me, who happily forecast the demise of the euro-bloc have been proved wrong. My fingers tremble with impotent fury as... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Sunday Rumble: 9.3.14

  

  I have left the "Hostages" to their fate: I tried, dammit, I tried! I knew it was an absurdity from the very beginning - the family of a famous surgeon in... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Always Raise Your Pinkie Before Pulling the Trigger!

  I am provoked to this post by 'SoD' who, in a comment down below somewhere, reminded me of this story in The Telegraph in which Maj. Gen. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• George Smiley, Or James Bond, Where Were You When We Needed You?

  Alas, 'George, my dear chap', you only existed fully inside the imagination of John le Carré (David Cornwall), although his imagination was fueled by the... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• The Stench of Humbuggery is Just Too Nauseating!

  Come back, Lord Grey, all is forgiven! Yes, you did rather craftily manouvre us towards WWI but you were right to do so and, in the final analysis, you ensured... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 HUMOR, SOCIETY