Sunday 7th October
Heads roll over corporation's cavalier treatment of Queen
(When an institition as purportedly intelligent as The Times runs a headline like that, you have to wonder if anybody's getting any kind of history education out there these days..)
Saturday 6th October
St Paul's, Spring 2006
Friday 5th October
God knows I wouldn't recognise it if it pushed me out of the way in the rush to the buffet, but it seems only fitting that I should have stumbled across it in a review of an Ali McQueen show; my compound adjective of the week: pagoda shouldered
Thursday 4th October
Shoreditch, Summer 2005
Wednesday 3rd October
Overheard at the office
A: ..your top sports story this evening...
B: Yah?
A: The headline is "Lewis Hamilton takes championship lead"
B: Mmm?
A: And then the abstract starts: "Lewis Hamilton takes chequered flag after Alonso crashes out.."
B: You don't like the repetition?
A: I need a synonym for "Lewis Hamilton"..
B: And "Totally-do-able mixed-race midget" is too long?
A: Precisely
B: Hmmm
Tuesday 2nd October
RIPPLE
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Monday 1st October
It's that Ig Nobel time of year again. My favourite prize-winner has to be:
The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research and development on a chemical weapon - the so-called "gay bomb" - that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.
Judging by recent observations in selected hostelries, I think we know which London postal district they chose for field-testing...
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