Monthly Archives: April 2005

Say hello to the angels

How do you get a goth out of a tree?
Cut the rope.

Organ Bridge

Why do the bits at the bottom of the kettle always end up in my cup of tea, no matter who made it, why is it always 7.18am when I look at my clock in the morning and why did I have to wait all winter for the weather to start brightening up only to [...]

Figures and speech

I asked my boss why he had two big lumps of sugar in every cup of tea and coffee he drank.
‘Got to keep up appearances!’ he replied, stroking his extremely round belly.
He’s an odd’un, always shouting ‘Clucking bells!’ and ‘Be off!’ at his computer or the phone or whatever takes his fancy really.
And every time [...]

Rabbit in Your Headlights

Somehow whenever I play Monopoly my brother always ends up with hotels on Mayfair and Park Lane. And despite all my attempts to turn the game otherwise I inevitably land on them. Repeatedly. So today it was Mayfair, followed by Park Lane twice then Mayfair again, four successive times round the board. [...]

Paperbag Writer

Drummer Forced To Retrieve Sticks From Audience For Encore
is the best headline ever, even if it is from the Onion.
I collect odd articles .. was going to put them up here but just cannot figure out a decent design, try as I may. In the meanwhile this is my favourite article, ever. It [...]