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[…]

“NOT FOR LAGERBOYS” read the shirts of several Great British Beer Festival helpers. How I mocked but it seems the joke was on me as I vomited copiously into my bathroom toilet at 2AM. Det. Insp. Occam would have opened and shut this case […]

List of Fictional Curse Words
A cleaner, geekier, telefantasy-biased, version of Rogers Profanisaurus. You fracking knuckleheaded McSpazzmatron.[…]

World of Twist were never a lucky band, and prone to bad timing. Their album came out midway between press fads baggy and shoegazing, and nobody much bought it. They lost a deal and I heard – vaguely – about all sorts of feuds and bad bus[…]

Tracks:
Top Of The Pops – The Rezillos
Something About You – Lovely Jamelia
The Only One – DangerMouse & Jemini
Kid N Play – 2 Hype
Altern 8 – Active 8 (just 3 seconds for the DYS factor)
I Love Rock and/or Roll – Hector Nash feat[…]