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Miscellaneous Amusing Items I’ve Come Across #30

Recent status update from someone I’m friends with on Facebook (who I sincerely hope doesn’t read this blog!) Well it gave me a good old chuckle anyway…

I’m a bit surprised to be referred to as “you people”… Isn’t that rather condescending?

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Miscellaneous Amusing Items I’ve Come Across #29

All the time Fox News, all the time…

If straight men and gay women have one thing in common, I think, it’s that we both detest shopping…

Well, no. If straight men and gay women have one thing is common… it’s something else entirely. But if we have a second thing in common, its that we both detest shopping. Read the rest of this article here.

“We’ve got a connection with this place called Ireland. But that country doesn’t exist anymore…”

Have you seen the film The Departed ? That’s what Coatbridge is like. It’s almost like we’ve stepped out of a time capsule. Ireland has moved on and we’re left with this leprechaun culture. Read the rest of this article here.

Don’t Explain (1944)

No, nay, never… freckle-boy

In the late 1990s Amy Poehler was a sketch regular on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, playing sidekick Andy Richter’s little sister Stacy. The genius of this bit was that it basically recycled the same routine over and over again, but somehow never stopped being funny. Read the rest of this entry »

They called it ‘perhaps the most shameful night in our community’s history…’

But what about that time the handicapped boy was locked in a phone box and he pissed himself? What about then?? Read the rest of this article here.

Just Call Me Betty

Tell me if this is weird or not… A week on, Crystal Swing’s raunchy He Drinks Tequila is still playing on a constant rotation in my head. Stranger still, when I hum the song to myself, and it comes to the ‘And just call me baby’ line… for some reason I keep singing ‘And just call me Betty.’ Even though I know those aren’t the words. Read into that what you will, Mr Freud! Read the rest of this entry »

I Know It’s Over (1986)

Album filler turned live tour de force. Very specially for Colin!