If You Want to Raise Money for Charity Get Your Kit Off
Comic Relief has been a big success this year, with over £74,000,000 raised on the night.
Chris Moyles raised a couple of millions by broadcasting continuously for over 50 hours. I once programmed for about 36 hours non-stop and I know how difficult that must have been. At least with the programming, I was testing the Artemis scheduler and I was driven by the bugs I kept finding.
He was also helped by fellow presenter, Fearne Cotton, who said she’d broadcast in a swimsuit, if he passed his target.
He did and the server to the webcam crashed.
Even the Telegraph deemed it fit to show pictures and video on their web site. What did Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells think? He was apparently unable for comment, as he was too busy trying t9 work out how to watch the video.
Tony Hancock and Guy the Gorilla
I’ve just watched a documentary on BBC2 called The Unknown Hancock. Note that they used just Hancock, as he is one of the few people known by just his surname to most people.
One thing that he used to do was visit Guy the Gorilla in his cage in the London Zoo. At the time Guy was kept by himself in an iron cage, which today would be considered unsuitable for great apes. Despite this he was considered to be a gentle soul and not in the least bit dangerous.
I mention this because the documentary would have been watched intently by C, who was one of Tony Hancock‘s biggest fans.
By now she would be telling me this tale of one of her clients.
He was obviously not a nice man, as regularly he was sent to jail for a couple of years. On release, he would go straight round to the London Zoo and visit Guy in his cage and say something like.
Hello Guy! I’m back out now. But you’re still inside!
There probably has never been such an iconic animal in the London Zoo as Guy.
Pope to be Exhumed
When I read that Pope John Paul II was going to be exhumed and the coffin put on display, I thought it was a joke. But it’s here on Reuters.
It just proves to me that I want nothing to do with religion. Except of course with the basic principle of trying to do the best for the greater good of everybody.
QVC
Is there anything more banal than this?
I’ve never actually watched it in seriously, but it was on in a pub I had a drink in one afternoon and the punters were just making fun of the channel, the presenters and the expensive tat they were selling. I should return to that pub.
But according to an article in The Times today, one in four homes have ordered something from the channel. All it proves it that there are one or probably a lot more born every minute.
But then I’m a man and I don’t understand shopping. And especially junk American television programmes and channels!
Labour Makes Voting More Appealing to Younger Votes
According to Seven Day Sunday on Radio 5, the Labour Party is thinking of calling the ballot box, the X-Box, to make voting more appealing to younger voters.
I know it’s a show you don’t take seriously, but I like the idea. The trouble is, it’s the sort of idea, you could believe had been thought up by a bunch of self-opinionated politicians.
A Lovely Memorial
I saw this seat on York Station.
A Lovely Memorial
The bottom line says “Still Travelling” I think, Brian would have found a seat like that funny! But, in a dry, ironic and very respectful manner!
An IKEA Joke
Whilst I’m waiting for the spice rack, here’s a joke.
Answer: “Sorry, we ran out of light bulbs. We expect them to arrive early next month. We do have ladders though! You just go straight on, then left and then right. No, thanks, anytime.”
Ikea is Swedish for ” how the f_ck do i put this together”
But that’s not my problem. I just want the product.
Black Swan
There was a pub in a 1950s British comedy called the Black Swan. It was always called the Mucky Duck.
Was it Hancock?
Not sure I can go to see the new film and keep a straight face.
Nakd Bars
Good gluten-free snacks are hard to come by. But have the Welsh come up with something better than the ubiquitous banana?
Nakd Cocoa and Orange Bar
They certainly taste nice. My only worry is that they seem to be a bit addictive. They do say on the packet that the bars are “Gleefully made in Wales”
Is this another case of a food company being innovative to expand and get us out of the recession?
They are also following a trend of trying to make the packaging funny and very much worth reading. Humour is the greatest weapon in life and we don’t use it enough in marketing and business.
Perhaps the reason we got into the recession was have we ever had such a humourless bunch of politicians as Gordon Brown and NuLabor?
The Truth About Prince Andrew
He has always been surrounded by mystery, with even questions about his real father being asked on Have I Got News For You?
But now the truth is finally published.
The Anonymous Widower 