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Death List – Dame Barbara Mills QC

Well this is a first, a death list entry for someone I knew (in passing) and worked for. While technically Dame Barbara was not included on my death list, I felt it appropriate to comment having read her obituary in the Daily Telegraph of Monday 30th May 2011.

Barbara Mill in 1992 outside the [...]

How a watch works

I don’t really tire of watching (geddit) this.

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The swearing of Pelham 123

I sometime feel that I swear too frequently. This regrettable habit can only be ascribed to loving the film The Taking of Pelham 123 and in particular, the short lived character, Caz Dolowicz. Caz shares my propensity for the colourful elements of the language, as indeed does the whole film. I decided to count the [...]

The Doctor

Shouldn’t “Doctor Who” be called “Doctor When?” He is a time lord after all?

Quimwatch

Not some bizarre or pornographic new program featuring Kate Humble and Bill Oddie! No it’s a watch which looks like this and is seemingly from a brand called “Quim.”

This is quite simply the most unwieldy watch I’ve ever seen, and you not may be surprised to note that it did not sell on [...]

The end of the world

These religious nutters, http://www.may-212011.com/ expect Saturday to be judgement day and that we then have 5 months until the end of the world.

Well today is my judgement day. I judge them to be befuddled fools. I mean, they explicitly say; “This Web Site is best viewed with Internet Explorer.”

Why are they so keen [...]

Cowtastic

You can’t lick it…

Planking?!

Darwin Award stupidity on display in this news story of an Australian planking (badly) on a 7th floor balcony.

No so much a “planker” – more a “plonker.”