3 October, 2008 – 11:25 am
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:
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If this is “Jumping The Gun” ….
Then what on Earth would you call this, this, or this?
See if you can figure out all 21 conundrums on Matt Cruikshank’s relaunched blog, The Crooked Leg. It’s harder than you might think at first sight.
Brilliant!
The forthright and wildly eccentric musings on food and its preparation written by an RAF bomber pilot who returned from prison camp after WW2 to his bleak homeland where rationing and a long tradition of terrible cuisine frustrated his yearning for a decent meal.
Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler’s definitive cookery manual for men. [...]
18 February, 2008 – 1:03 am
Three clips from classic films get the treatment from the voiceover artists who provide the voices for SpongeBob Squarepants.
Much hilarity ensues.
Link to QuickTime….
8 January, 2008 – 1:46 am
* Lawyer: “Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?”
* Witness: “No.”
* Lawyer: “Did you check for blood pressure?”
* Witness: “No.”
* Lawyer: “Did you check for breathing?”
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23 October, 2007 – 11:49 pm
I’m delighted when One Good Move (In the Blogroll sidebar ) posts a Daily Show clip, because it almost always guarantees a wickedly mordant take on the idiotic goings on in American politics. You might remember Jon Stewart as the compêre of last year’s Oscars ceremony. He is the 180 degree opposite of [...]
20 October, 2007 – 3:05 am
Alan Coren has delivered his last punchline.
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Alan Coren liked to tell the story of how he had been invited to lunch at Buckingham Palace. He was late, and was stopped by a policeman for speeding. “You’re not going to believe this, officer,” he said, “but I am going to lunch with the Queen.”
The policeman glowered. [...]
1 October, 2007 – 11:44 pm
From Radio 4’s `Recorded For Training Purposes´.
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Each programme is a co-written with the winners of a national sketch writing competition, selected from over 2,200 entrants. They have never written for radio before. Over fifty percent of the show is by new writers - which is a broadcasting first.