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News caption mishap edition. Read the rest of this entry »

“KEEP F***ING THAT CHICKEN!”

Not sure why I find this so funny. Maybe it’s because, with most clangers, you understand what the person intended to say, even if came out a little garbled. In this instance though, I have no earthly idea of what was this man could possibly have been trying to say. Even Will Ferrell would have trouble delivering lines this absurd.

During a routine back-and-forth with his local weather guy last night, veteran New York news anchor Ernie Anastos observed (bizarrely) that, “It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast, Nick.” Read the rest of this entry »

YOU KNOW WHO ELSE GROSSLY MISCHARACTERISED THE POLICIES OF THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS? YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, THE NAZIS*

As mentioned here previously, partisan politics in America is an ugly, ugly business. Everyone compares anything they don’t like to the Holocaust. Everyone compares anyone they don’t like the Nazis. But every so often a story comes along that if, well, it can’t warm the cockles, it’ll at least elicits a cackle from the coldest chambers of your heart. Read the rest of this entry »

HUSSEIN IN THE MEMBRANE [UPDATED]

Recently, I received an interesting email concerning my interview with Dr Latif Yahia, a.k.a. “Saddam’s son”, the controversial, Irish-based Iraqi exile fêted by RTE, BBC, CNN and Fox News. It comes from his ex-wife. “Hi Eoin, just had a read of your blog – very funny!” she writes. “I read your article with ‘Dr’ Latif Yahia and I’d just like to say fair play to you for seeing right through him. Let me point out a couple of things…” Read the rest of this entry »