The only relevant news item in this week’s Marketing was the sad decision of Bodyform to finally discard the “Whoa Bodyform” music from their adverts, which will apparently be speech-based in future. One research study claimed it to[…]

Scrabble Tournament: The Head of Steam, London, 9 May
Hello you! The T.M.F.D current Scrabble Champion here, reporting back. Yes, I won the tournament, but I’m not boasting, am I? Me? As if! Either way, I drew three games, each against some ver[…]

FICTIONAL FOODS EATEN IN CHILDRENS’ BOOKS
1: Stuff in the larder in the Faraway Tree
As a spin-off from Tom’s Publog articles (one and two here) I thought it was worthwhile savouring some of the items you could not actually get. Enid Blyt[…]

FOODS EATEN IN CHILDRENS’ BOOKS #2: Pine Needles
Pine needles seem to work as a kind of Moomin hay – they form their hibernation beds as well as serving as the staple diet. The preferred Mooomin drink – raspberry juice – lives[…]

More PopNose to your right. PN15 is a sort-of Coxsone Dodd tribute, PN16 is robot romance.[…]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH – “Banned From The Pubs”
Peter and The Test Tube Babies found themselves in a spot of boozer difficulty.
Banned from pubs go on on your way
Banned from pubs no punks they say
Banned from pubs you lot g[…]

I don?t know if it?s just me, but these pictures look like anything you?d see Madonna or Britney Spears do on stage. I mean, this is something you can see at Lincoln Center for an NEA grant.
Rush Limbaugh
While aside from location difficulties […]

Ok, so everyone knows all too well that Friends and Frasier have ended, but where is the publicity for NBC’s greatest loss? Next week’s season finale of Law & Order is the last episode with Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe. This man i[…]

FEAR THE PIE
Last night, while drunk, I may have contributed to a premature death. This is what I did: I removed the following advert from a London Tube carriage…

This is part of the British Heart Foundations “Big Red Fightback” ca[…]

There’s a twat in my kitchen, what am I gonna do? The twat in question is Ali Campbell singing “Red Red Wine”, and the only course of action is to hurl the radio out of the window. The UB40 official website has a wonderful picture o[…]