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stuart bell on "life of brian"
"Careful now!" "Down with this sort of thing!" Also reminded of a parochial character from (I think) something by Le Guin, who, when asked what the People From Over There were really like, replied with a line along the lines of "They are black and evil! I have never seen one!" |
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wales book of the year gaffe
This story's got legs, hasn't it? If you haven't heard it, the Welsh Assembly Culture Minister announced the wrong winner at the Wales Book of the Year awards ceremony on Tuesday night, despite reading it off a piece of paper - Tom Bullough, who thought he'd won, got as far as the stage before he was told it was actually Dannie Abse. Mind you, Bullough's blog has now exceeded its bandwidth, so maybe he's got some useful publicity out of this. Probably not enough to make up for the public humiliation, mind. I was at this ceremony last year, as our friend Robin was one of the contenders, and I remember thinking it was unusual in being one of the few awards left where the winners didn't know in advance. I had no idea that not even the presenter knew either - I'm sure that'll change now. But what on earth did that card say? "The winner isn't TOM BULLOUGH! He's one of the runners-up along with Nia Wyn. The actual winner is Dannie Abse." |
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royal pizza
Bloody hell - we're working late in the office again, so we ordered some pizza. Quite a lot of pizza, to be honest. When the guy delivered it, I apologised for not having the cash for a tip (which was why we were paying by card), and he left, obviously displeased. Within a minute or so he was back, verbally abusing us for being "the worst people he'd ever come across" and asking "hands up any of you who've got a girlfriend." He's apparently the manager. Unbelievable. He stormed out again, forgetting his pizza bags. They're still here. |
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All very testy-testy at the moment. Please mail any problems to me at jim spot finnis monkey-with-tail gmail spot com. Hah, let's see the email scrapers decipher that.
Hmm - that's a sentence whose meaning is changed completely if you don't realise that lame is in the French way not the English way.
This was me trying to look like Amanda Palmer. I now realise I looked more like Tara Palmer Tompkinson. The reality check is always the one that bounces all the way to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation isn't it.
Anything in this case being a tailor's mannequin made out of a Catrin, a tee shirt, and two rolls of gaffa tape. I just hope it's not voodoo if you stick pins into effigies of yourself.
According to Google, it's a stencil thing for doing eyebrows. The only options are thin, medium or thick. Naturally, I'd want it to include "Option 4: Eyebrows A La Amanda Palmer. Except of course, if I were to do that, just at the point when I am applying the makeup, my brain would start playing the Victoria Wood monologue where she paints one really high up and the other really low down. "Now I look like a person who's had a pint spilt over them and they can't quite remember what to do about it". Hilarity would ensue, I would look like a div, and like Victoria Wood, would end up wearing a big brown raincoat and a picnic rug and a pair of knickers on my head.
Red Dead Hand. Great name for a kid.
Absolutely fantastic gig - I had such a such a such a good time. People do look at me funny though when I explain perfectly reasonably that I went to see a bloke and a woman being a pair of conjoined twins. Do other people not do that then?
they won't let e write it` 'yS, i like 'a man
Blimey it looks bare in the winter. I'm off to listen to some Chumbawamba unless Jubilee's on.
...unless the program is written in FORTRAN IV, as that doesn't do lists/characters.
come visit some time; i have a very pubby pub :-) i also like the "abandon" button, above. we need more abandon.
Look, explaining the finer points of Land Registration requires some visual aids ok.
Isn't that a hotel chain?
Ooh, pretty picture. I couldn't work out for a while which side of the river it was.
Of course, but *read it again* They're not reserving the right to REFUSE to serve, they're reserving the right to SERVE.
That's completely legal. Any trading establishment can refuse to serve any customer without giving a reason. It's generally considered bad for the trader's reputation as a good place to do business, but they do have that option.
My God! I look like an advert for Werthers Original.
You're not planning on dying of E Coli are you?
Ah, but I don't think the installer could have reasonably foreseen that particular injury...
And clearly displaying better workmanship than the oaf who installed the thing in the first place - it needing to be replaced because it came apart in my hand. I could have been seriously injured...if the light pull had hit me in the eye, causing me to flail around blindly, then fall down the stairs and impale myself on a coathook.
Would you act in "The Wicker Man?" Edward Woodward would.
I had the same petit four at that same restaurant in Edinburgh just yesterday - it was fantastic. We has the deep fried mars bars alongside. Superb.
This is a test wiki/blog system called Gwir, implemented in php5.
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re Twitter posts for Sunday August 22 Catrin wrote:
It's actually going to be reviewed in a proper academic journal and everything. Well not actually everything, just a proper academic journal, but I think that's extremely exciting. It says so on the internet, it must be true.
23/08/10 11:28:33 AM