One of those moments when you check with other viewers to see if they heard what you heard. Courtesy of BBC London News 8:30 am bulletin this morning, presented by shamefaced, postbox-mouthed Matt Barbet :
“The price of the average house in Lo[…]

And there are a lot of them out there to call. Pretty much everything the bearded comics writer has written has now been collected, or is at least available somewhere (including – as you can see – his Future Shocks for 2000AD). Considerin[…]

the prog: silent witness, just now ending
the story: mash-up of heavenly creatures and strangers on a train, except in threes not twos
the milestone: “30,000 hits in 45 minutes on my blog”
ie this is the first time i heard the word &#822[…]

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Aah, and as the strains of Acka Raga fade, we begin this week with our picture round. What our families are about to see is an everyday object viewed extremely close-up. Their job is simply to tell us what on Earth it can possibly be! (more…)[…]

a friend told me last week that he had encountered — in relation to a WELL-KNOWN CURRENTLY V.POPULAR MAJOR ELECTRONIC PRODUCT (wkcpMEP) — a MONUMENTAL OLD-SKOOL FRAUD about to unfold. Which when discovered will embarrass the manufacturers[…]

I’ve encountered some bad titles in my time but pube-headed freak Timberlake has surely topped them all with this: (more…)[…]

Search for the Campaign for Real Ale in the Freaky Trigger archives and you’ll find a history of mockery and frustration tinged with occasional praise as the lumbering beast moves in what we think is the right direction. When Pete started the P[…]

i. most years the ants only swarm once, at most twice; they have swarmed at least FIVE TIMES this year, most recently this evening
ii. insects i have never seen in london before = bright poison-green cricket — i’ve seen two (one opposite […]

… but the ALL-TIME WORST BBC SIT-COM EVAH (=my hero) has suddenly (ie since ardal o’hanlon left and james dreyfus took over) also become the ODDEST
ok i have not and cannot watch for more than a couple of lines at a time — it is ST[…]