but robbing four banks while talking on yr mobile = WAY cool (in an insane kinda way)[…]

apparently the above — first ep broadcast on c4 on saturday — is based on a SCIENCE MUSEUM EXHIB’n which fellow citizens of the Freaky Trigan Empire enjoyed well i watched it w.my dad — though he wisely slept through the entir[…]

“Hitchens then turned the subject back to Chalabi, his good friend. I asked him if he thought Chalabi had been passing American intelligence to the Iranians. “No,” he insisted. “It’s possible that with his training, you[…]

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but i heard someone read this story out aloud from metro (update=the woman won her case) and they pronounced it “SEMOLINA POISONING”[…]

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i. ok yes i too hate angus deayton so don’t start
ii. and yes i admit i sicked this on myself by flippin over to FIVE during a late-doors attack of the clones ad-break, when i already knew they were running a “50 most embarrassing TV mome[…]

“Forgive me, my lords, it is my fault for mixing politics with wine. More tench, perhaps? Dormouse?”
I just turned on BBC2’s big-budget swank history drama ROME: this wz the first sentence I heard.

(ps it is v.instructive watchin[…]

… so I realise that having to deal w.yr recently deceased mother’s stocks and bonds seems a bit alien to you — therefore to make you feel more at home, here is a corporate newsletter dollied up as a FUNKY LIFESTYLE MAG!! The main to[…]

i. it is of course irritatin when ppl wax moistly sentimental abt the just-vanished ROUTEMASTER…

ii. … but this pales into nothing when compared w.the MIND-FRYIN of HELL of goin home at rush hour on a bendy bus for the first time[…]