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Archive of posts tagged with Humour

The Electrofunk-daddy Superstar Break

February 18th, 2007

posted in Humour, Music, Web

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Now you too can cook up some seriously cool beats. Warning: quite high in phat.

Not a spoof

October 11th, 2006

posted in Humour, Television

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Least-appropriately named eyewitness in the history of television, on Flickr.
Whilst waiting for Broken News to start on BBC4, we were wondering whether they’d accidentally started broadcasting it on BBC News 24 when we heard a telephone interview given by the least-appropriately named eyewitness in the history of television…

Ronsealing Broadway…

February 20th, 2006

posted in Humour

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I promise I’ll stop banging on about modded Tube Maps at some point, but in the meantime there’s another one which is even better than all the others! Introducing the ever-inventive Paul’s Sponsored Tube Map.

Bawdier Analogy…

February 16th, 2006

posted in Humour

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…is where I now live, and I work at Yeti Witch, according to this brilliant Anagram Map of London Underground. There are some especially amusing names at the east end of the central line - Pig Pen and Raging Hell are definitely among my favourites. Truly inspired.
Update: Diamond Geezer wrote a much better post encompassing […]

The IT Crowd

February 6th, 2006

posted in Humour, Television

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So who watched this on Channel 4 on Friday night? I hadn’t really intended to, but then I was struck down by the most violent cold I’ve had for a while, so I had no option but to guzzle smoothie and vegetate in front of our dinky little tellybox.
My initial thoughts? In no particular order: […]

At Pains

December 14th, 2005

posted in Humour, Life

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Overheard on the tube, and presented without comment:
“Sometimes working at the BBC is like wading through an enormous vat of autism”

How To: Sex In The City

March 21st, 2004

posted in Celebrity, Humour, Television

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Ingredients:
Four independent thirtysomething women (one slightly horsey)
A multitude of model-material boyfriends
A couple of screamingly camp gay friends
A warehouse of clothes that you never thought would work together
Shoes. With a capital S.
A slightly naughty theme tune
Method:
1. Four women in randomly chosen clothes from the Warehouse of Dysfunction appear. Outfits are groundbreaking (or just plain upsetting). We […]

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