Tag: Humour

Another extradition

Breaking news

Anticipating a change of heart in the British judiciary the South African government have this morning dispatched its last remaining serviceable aircraft to London to collect a long sought after fugitive.

Nicknamed the Dewani Dakota it left Swartkops airforce base early this morning.

When asked what prompted the sudden reaction Mr Gizza Manback (spokesman for the Department of Justice) said, “no news is good news, we haven’t heard anything for 6 months so we’re taking that as good news”

What I did in Stoke on holiday last weekend

I’ve always known that I was lucky ever since I won a box of 12 Dunlop 65 golf balls at the Invergordon Conservative Club raffle at the age of 7. Total profit as my Auntie Ina had bought me the ticket and I was able to sell them to my Dad for the princely sum of three week’s pocket money (1/6d). Result!

In seriousness, however, I really am lucky. Continue reading “What I did in Stoke on holiday last weekend”

Portugal win !

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Ja well.

Members may well have read my comments about the standard of journalism in my local read. It’s awful, it’s been awful for years and unfortunately it’s going to be awful for many years to come.

This is a scan of the main story on the back page of today’s E.P.Herald.

Thankfully I only buy the thing for the DT cryptic crossword.

Mark Ogden, the apparent writer of this garbage is of course a Daily Telegraph journalist, in fact the article is credited to “© Daily Telegraph” (full scan of article here)

I wonder how Mr Ogden feels about this?

For the record it was Spain who won 4-2 on penalties to send Portugal packing.

 

Ferry clever, Tanjooberrymutts

No engineers. No calculations or load studies.No checklists or inspections. No ‘elf ‘n safety No modifications.No insurance. No pumps. No ballast studies. No tow master. No manuals. No certifications. No contingency plans.

Check out the guys bailing out the water furiously.

Tanjooberrymutts??

All will become clear when you read the next piece 😉 Continue reading “Ferry clever, Tanjooberrymutts”

Limerick Grand National – results (Judgement Day)

Yes everybody, the waiting is finally over 😉

Who would have thought it? Perhaps the greatest event of our time.

Almost 80 comments on a competition which until now was heading for the doldrums, a dozen runners, all running fairly, no excessive use of the whip, a good clean race. And the winner is……… Continue reading “Limerick Grand National – results (Judgement Day)”