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• Ach, Ach, Oh Mein Gott, Wot a Bloomin' Lot!

  Needless to say, in the finest traditions of this blog that title has very little connection to the content of this post except that it is concerned with the... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 HUMOR

• The HAFs Are Even Worse Than Me at Forecasting

  This blog stands proudly on the rubble of its forecasting reputation, it being the product of the daft old coot somewhat myopic old gentleman who runs this... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 HUMOR

• Your Monday 'Funny': 21.01.21

  A freezing cold Monday morning with ice everywhere so I guess you wage slaves need cheering up. Here's the first sent to me by Andra - who else? Good medical... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 HUMOR

• The Crowning of King Obama

  

  As I have remarked before, little things say so much about people. For example, I read that on the most auspicious day in the American political and social... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Sometimes There Are No Words - Even from Me!

  I am not a frequent visitor to the site of my e-pal Louise who occasionally comments here because, frankly, I am a bit of a moral coward. Her site is sometimes... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Why Would the 'Euros' Bother to Do a Deal with Dave?

  

  Golly-gosh, the disappointment on hearing that Dave's big speech - no, really, I mean, like, really BIG speech - on Europe has been postponed was, well, barely... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Cheats Never Prosper", Er, Well, Not Always!

  To be fair, not too many of us are forced to make serious moral choices in our lives. Well, of course, except in the field of sexual temptation which, happily a... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• "Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me"

  

  Well, if it was good enough for Jesus it should, just, be good enough for this lot! However, there might be an etymological quibble on the exact meaning, in... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 HUMOR

• "La Bohème": Almost a Bore

  Last night a group of us went to see the 'simulcast' of La Bohème broadcast directly from the Royal Opera House. I, personally, came out disappointed. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Didja Hear the Cheers, Didja, Didja?

  Well, perhaps my eloquent, landmark talk failed to lift the roof but at the end there were a few desultory claps followed immediately by some snorts and snores... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Embuggerence to a Factor of Infinity!

  Tomorrow morning spare a thought for an innocent group of gentlemen who are to be regaled with my PowerPoint talk on How the Germans Lost WWI in the First Six... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Corker Alert!

  Oh my hat, I've just read a corker! True Crime by Andrew Klavan which I purchased from one of my rather high-class local bookshops - er, the hospice charity... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday Funny 14:01:13

  Apparently the Russians have sent us their weather. In Russia they think that's a joke! So as you shiver your way into the office here are a couple of... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which an Ex-corporal Ponders the Abilities of the US Secretary for Defence

  

  Well, why not? After all, Sen. Chuck Hagel was only a sergeant in the Vietnam war and I was a corporal - substantive, mind! - in the British army at roughly... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• A Faction Without a Leader is a Rabble

  

  And rabbles tend to be defeated! There is, I sense, a very large faction in this country made up of those who have always known, and those who have recently... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• In Which You May Assist Me in Choosing My Christmas Present

  That Abe Lincoln has a lot to answer for! First of all, the trailer for the current film was on last night as I waited for Les Mis to begin. Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 HUMOR

• 'Les Misérables' Made Me Very Happy Through My Tears!

  

  Les Misérables was simply superb! At the end of the film, six of us sat in the back row utterly silent, not trusting ourselves to speak, whilst in the row in... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• It's No Longer 'Warmers' Vs. 'Deniers', It's 'Deniers' Vs. 'Deniers'!

  First the 'Good News'. That bastion of politically (in)correct thinking, aka, NASA, has taken a gigantic step shuffled forward a tad! Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• But Would You Want Princess Diana Running the US Treasury?

  

  I ask the question because President Obama has offered up some cove called Jack Lew to be his next Secretary of the Treasury. I know nothing about Mr. Lew... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• But What If the Puppet-master is a Dummy, Too?

  

  On my way to the swimming-pool this morning . . . oh yes, crack of dawn, five mornings a week, haven't I told you before? . . . Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2013 HUMOR, SOCIETY