Posted on December 22, 2008 by steveshark
I went looking for a CD for Mrs Shark today as an extra little stocking filler.
I looked through the racks in HMV and saw this album:
Hmmm…I thought…that’s a new band on me – never heard of them before…
Anyway, I flipped the CD over and it turned out that The Priests is a ‘band’ of priests [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by steveshark
Fuck.
Me.
I’m stunned…
I thought the Mail had gone completely over the top with regard to the Clarkson/Hislop pen throwing incident.
It never occurred to me that there was another newspaper which could make the incident sound worse.
And no other sleazy redtop with so little journalistic integrity could be found on the shelves of the newsagents of this [...]
Filed under: Annoyances, Bizarre, Current affairs, Humour, Media | Tagged: Daily Mail, Have I Got News For You, pen, wound, Clarkson, Hislop, pen throw, throw, Daily Star, polishing a turd, stabbing, stab, puncture, maim, annihilate, slaughter, mad axe murderer, entrails ripped out with pen | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 22, 2008 by steveshark
I’ve just read this story on the BBC News site:
‘X Factor vote’ for street names
Residents should be allowed to name their streets and parks after their heroes, a think-tank has suggested.
The New Local Government Network says councils should hold X Factor-style contests to find public place names.
The report suggests football hero David Beckham, born [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by steveshark
I found this the other day.
It’s a variation on one of those Christian fish signs – known as an Icthus – that you sometimes see on cars and denotes a belief in creationism and a denial of Darwinism.
I was re-reading the excellent Dave Gorman book ‘A Googlewhack Adventure’ and after I’d finished the bit where [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by steveshark
Lots of comforting noises started to come out of No 10 when everyone realised that the credit crunch was actually a full-blown global catastrophe of the first magnitude and that the government could no longer pretend it was all going to go away.
There’s been talk of real help with mortgages, jobs, retraining, loans, etc.
But what’s [...]
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