Category Archives: Humour

The Diagram Prize

Every year, The Bookseller magazine organises a search for odd published book titles. This year, the strangest contender so far is “Baboon Metaphysics”, by Dorothy L Cheney & Robert M Seyfarth… (Read on) >>

Holiday Ideas For All Our Cash Strapped French Readers

Mon frêre ainé m’a envoyé ces images… Il dit: “…en cette période de crise, si on peut se permettre un petit voyage …… Profitons – en….;-) Ses coordonnées: Translations: http://www.proz.com/profile/108604 Paintings: http://improvise.free.fr/gallery/gallery.html Compositions: http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/paulhirsh Panpipe videos: http://improvise.free.fr/video.htm Blog: http://houdiniinthedesert.blogspot.com/ Bonne Année, Paul, et merçi!

A Bit Of A Giveaway

It’s amazing how lazy some of the authors of phishing attacks can be:

What Were They Thinking?

Whoever was in charge of page layout at The Independent Magazine last Saturday (18th October), should really have brought this amazing juxtaposition to the editor’s attention before publishing. (Click to enlarge) Top left shows the long term civil rights activist and member of the House of Representatives, John Lewis, while the right hand page extols [...]

How To Cook Children

A gruesome and grisly recipe book by Martin Howard and Colin Stimpson. Yes that’s the same Colin Stimpson as is featured in the blogroll to the right. I never realised he had such a morbid streak. The book contains lots of useful and tasty recipes, including instructions on how to cook Flat Jacks: (Click to [...]

Roadrunner’s Diary

Spotted on Tim McSweeny’s blog: “If Only They Kept Diaries” – Roadrunner, by Jeff Steinbrink1 Monday Up early. Ran like hell. No sign of coyote. Ate. Fidgeted. Ran like hell. Tuesday Up early. Ran (speed work). Trompe l’oeil master class, 10 to noon. Meaning to push beyond highway-disappearing-into-tunnel, tried highway-disappearing-into-ballet-class (after Degas). Results unsettling. Light [...]

This Should Have Been Posted Ages Ago….

I don’t know what’s kept me so long. Johnny Kelly‘s short film(04:26) about putting things off until later. I do it. I know a lot of other people do it. In fact there’s one or two people procrastinating right now as they read this post. Get back to work, you slackers!

Nice Weather For Ducks

All this showery midsummer rain has played havoc with sporting fixtures, and worse is on the way according to the meteorological office. Much worse by the look of things… The inhabitants of Chelmsford in Essex must have had a very nasty fright when they checked the BBC weather forecast at 4.00 this afternoon. (Cluck to [...]

Tony White’s “Endangered Species”

A short film about an art form that flourished in the 20th Century, that now faces an uncertain future. Full of arcane references for those who know their history More –>>

Fancy Dress

(Click image to enlarge.) As seen on The Daily Irrelevant Thanks John!

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