May 2008 Archives
Just a quick one.
So some jumped up little desk botherer at Haringey Council wonders if it is best use of public money to return fines wrongly collected from motorists.
He's irritated
Supplementary to the captain’s blog; stardate 2008, entering the region of the Brown star....
Drinking too much can make women with more than one set of facial features look attractive
Funny how when you start a thread all sorts of complementary material starts to appear out of the blue. Or in this case the Bluetooth.
That's just plain wrong
Look, I have no intention of turning this blog into a guide to what’s on TV, perhaps some passing reference to Britain’s Got Saddos and the lack of talent in your average Piers Morgan, but not a full on preview of the evening’s listings.
IN the film Below the Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston muses over how a society could be dominated by creatures as primitive and uncouth as monkey-kind.
Obviously there’s all that jumping about and screeching. And holding the tea cup in an impolite manner. There is certainly no place in parliamentary debate for the throwing of rotten fruit or picking the fleas out of the coat of the Honourable Member for Chester Zoo.
Why cars should be available on the NHS (part 235).
Not the best couple of weeks for Scotland and its braves.
Whining Rangers fans who blamed the city of Manchester for failing to run out enough red carpet for their drunken one-nighter are not flavour of the month. Well except it seems with one police dog.
You really would struggle to guess where the next dose of climate codswallop is coming from.
‘Experts’, always ‘experts’, say hay fever has come early this year because of climate change
A cautionary take from the countryside.
Last week I was driving an Impreza STi, in white with suede interior. Very nice. Very exciting. Very easy to attract the attention of the rozzers.
The 1961 Ferrari California Spyder which once belonged to actor James Coburn has been sold for Euro 7,040,00 million, which is an all-time record for this model.
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