Category: Humour

Billy Bennett

This months ‘poetry’ competition theme is parody and while searching for answers to Boa’s ‘Who are they?’ competition I came across the music hall comedian Billy Bennett. I recall that many extracts from his monologues were catch phrases, some of which still are – ‘It’s the same the whole world over – it’s the poor what gets the blame!’

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Funny radio ad

Our national broadcaster is very kindly broadcasting every game of the cricket world cup, I always have a match on while driving around here and this ad is flighted reasonably often, it always makes me smile. So I thought that a few cherished colleagues might like it.

Here it is: funny ad (Simply click and select ‘open’ when prompted)

Enjoy!

More Depressing News for Miserable Killjoys (© CO) Everywhere

Not only will loyal subjects of Her Majesty the Queen such as myself soon be able to celebrate the nuptials of the eldest son of her Heir Apparent, but Buck House has now filled our cup of joy to overflowing with the news that her eldest granddaughter will be tying the knot on 30th July 2011. In Embra!

As your self-appointed, local Royal correspondent, I immediately dashed the few hundred yards necessary at lunchtime today to bring you one of the first pictures of the imposing kirk in which the marriage will be conducted.

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If Starwars was filmed in Manchester!

Chewbacca would look roughly the same except he’d only be about 5ft tall, from Hatersley and called “Dazza”. He’d have the same amount of body hair but would also have tattoos, would permanently smell of drink and invariably sport a Man City shirt from 4 seasons past and tracksuit pants. Continue reading “If Starwars was filmed in Manchester!”

On This Day

You know how lots of people on the Internet have lots of theories about lots of different things? It is not fair that they should have all the fun. I have, therefore, decided to have a theory of my very own.

On this day, 8th March 1702 (Julian calendar), King William III of England, also known as King William II of Scotland and Prince William III of Orange popped his clogs. He died of pneumonia as a complication of the broken collar-bone which he suffered when he fell off his horse, Sorrel. Continue reading “On This Day”