Archive for the 'Humour' Category

Peep Show

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

How did I completely miss Mitchell and Webb’s Peep Show when it was on the electric television?!
It was my cousin Zack who emailed me a few months ago from the United States of Americans and recommended it. “Why is British comedy so much better than American?” he said. Or something like that. He uses […]

How many perfect lovers do you need?!

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

A few months back I stumbled across a website that had this bright red box proudly displayed on its page:

It was clearly an advert for something, but I thought that it might be quite fun to see what it reckoned “the exact name of my perfect lover” would be.
I already knew: Jane Ellison Saunders.
So I […]

Human Tetris

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Why do the Japanese always have better TV game shows than we do?
The best we have at the moment is Noel Edmonds presenting Channel 4’s Guess-What-Box-The-Big-Number-Is-In. Meanwhile the Japanese are getting to watch Human Tetris.
Utterly genius!

Operation Check Every CD Case™

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Yesterday evening I decided that I should like to listen to the soothing tones of Halford:

Just to clarify, I do not mean Halfords (with an ’s’), high street purveyor of car accessories, components and bicycles (at the Bike Hut).

As an aside, I do not believe that Bike Hut will become as popular as Pizza […]

Climate change and the British Empire

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. (Map courtesy of Wikipedia)
I have a theory about climate change — have you noticed that people don’t call it “global warming” anymore? My theory is simply that climate change was invented by British scientists. Let me explain.
Now, […]

Miss South Carolina

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

This isn’t new but it is funny; it’s been doing the rounds on YouTube and Facebook for the last couple of weeks.
The background
In the final round of the Miss Teen USA 2007 competition the five remaining contestants had to answer a question from one of the judges, picked at random. The answer could be no […]

Powerpoint Edinburgh: An apology

Friday, September 14th, 2007

In common with all other Scottish Christian blogs, I may have given the impression that I thought that the Powerpoint Edinburgh committee had lost their minds in inviting such a controversial public figure to speak at this season’s opening event at St Thomas’, Glasgow Road, tonight.
Blog post titles such as “Theroux a glass darkly”, “When […]