History, Photographs, Sport
1948 London Olympics
A lovely story. Scouring through a car boot sale 20 years ago, Lucy Bull spent £2 on a box of negatives and old snaps. Lucy, who was studying A level photography at the time, didn’t look at all the pictures and eventually stored them in her attic. She was having a clear-out recently when she found […]
Gibberish, Humour, Linkage
The Daily Mash
The Daily Mash is: a satirical news website which exposes the absurdities of modern life to rigorous scrutiny with “hilarious results”. The Daily Mash satirises the worlds of politics, media, culture, and sport with spoof news stories, commentary and opinion (this means that it’s all made-up and is not intended in any way whatsoever to […]
Humour
Random Quotes (of Delight…)
I saw these quotes the other day, had I had to share them with you. OK, numbers one and two (thanks to Gavin Esler, Newsnight presenter…) “The first door I knocked on, I was told to burn in hell. I felt things could only get better after that.” Tory candidate Lucille Nicholson in Easington, County […]
Humour
The way of the future…
I’m telling you now, in the future everyone will be singing to everyone else. The world will be a massive, unbearable musical. The signs are already here. For years “Jesus Christ, Superstar” has taken a story we all know and sang it to us. Then Ben Elton‘s career stalled and he turned his hand to […]