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• 'Tempus Fugit' - and It's 'fugitting' Ever Faster!

  Well, that's how it seems to me these days but perhaps it is just a result of me going slower!  Anyway my sense of acceleratinging time has been... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• I'm Rattling My Tin Again!

  Yes, it's that time of year again when blatant 'Scroogism' is inflicted on elderly tight-wads who sit, shivering in their parlours, carefully counting their... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Plunge off the Cliff Or Just a Bungee-jump?

  Having (just) recovered from my shock at the result of the presidential election I was intending to call this post 'Whither America' but accurate... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Ladies, Buy Your Man a Fur-lined Jock Strap!

  And in return, chaps, treat your 'gal' to a fur-lined bra!  I kid you not because the evidence is mounting that the sun is, like me, going for nap. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Your Monday 'Funny' #7

  In case you need reminding, as you face yet another week at the coal-face, there are worst places to be.  For example, you might be sentenced to spend tim... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Liberty Or Democracy? You Choose!

  Actually, don't bother because you began losing your liberty before WWI, you lost a whole lot more after WWII and now, in the era of... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• What's the Point of Him, I Mean, What's He For?

  I refer of course to that chimera, that man of a thousand faces, that smooth reflecting man who, when you look at him, returns the image you wish for - I mean,... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• Yea, Truly, I Am Now a God of Infinite Space!

  I have gone boldly into the 21 st century and am now master of all I survey!  Er, well, perhaps 'master' is rather overstating the case because frankly I... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 HUMOR, SOCIETY

• This Blog is Undergoing Gene Therapy Treatment!

  As of tomorrow this blog is undergoing gene therapy treatment including the insertion of new monkey glands and a portable drip feed of viagra! Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 HUMOR

• 'The Most Unkindest Cut of All'?

  The 'luvvies' are in a tizzy!  Tomorrow, with a thunderous 'baaaarp' from the orchestra pit,  the Chancellor takes centre stage like a villain in a... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 HUMOR

• Your Monday 'funny' #6

  This is a corker! There was this woman, see, called Maggie Hodge and she was in charge of the committee in parliament that oversees our Public Accounts and she... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 HUMOR

• An Official 'go Slow' Here at D&N!

  Yes, I'm afraid 'the trains will not be running on time' here at D N due to a coincidence of events.  First of all, on Wednesday this blog is not... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2012 HUMOR

• Anti-smoking is Bad for Your Moral Health!

  Amongst the plethora of SIFs (‘Single Issue Fanatics’ TM  - the late, great Bernard Levin) perhaps the most odious in my eyes are the anti-smoking... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2012 HUMOR

• "He Should Have Gone to SpecSavers"!

  I suppose I should have saved this for my Monday morning 'funny' but I couldn't resist telling you all now.  Does this man look a tad surprised to you? Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 HUMOR

• Well Done, the Cocklecarrots!

  There you are, you see, two unbelievable headlines in a row you never expected to read here at D N!  Not only have I patted 'Dave' on the back, see... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 HUMOR

• Well Done, Dave, Your Country is Proud of You!

  Well, maybe not all of them but I am, at any rate!  The oozing sentimentality over the Dowler and McCann families makes me feel ill and when it... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 HUMOR

• Lest We Forget - Who Exactly Won the War!

  I haven't read Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings.  Not because I think it will be anything other than interesting but I am, so to... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 HUMOR

• "The Killing" is as Dead as a Danish Dodo!

  Jeg prøvede! Jeg prøvede! Er, that's Danish for 'I tried, I tried!' As so often I insert these foreign words to provide a veneer of cosmopolitan sophistication... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 HUMOR

• The British Bilge Corporation Defecates on Us Again!

  I know you will find this hard to believe, dear reader, especially if you are a regular here at D N but sometimes, just sometimes, I am completely at a loss... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 HUMOR

• Give Me a Kiss, Sweetie, and I'll Tell You!

  That is my non-serious answer to a serious question raised by Prof. David P. Barash in The Chronicle of Higher Education, to wit, "The Evolutionary... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 HUMOR