Showing posts with label just for fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label just for fun. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Bit of election fun

The Official Monster Raving (William Hill) Loony Party has a very entertaining mancifesto [sic].

"1. Health & Safety: We propose to ban Self Responsibility on the grounds that it may be dangerous to your health

2. M.P's Expenses: We propose that instead of a second home allowance M.P's will have a caravan which will be parked outside the Houses of Parliament. This will make it
easier as flipping a caravan is easier than flipping homes

3. Eurofit: The European Constitution which will be sorted out by going for a long Walk."As everyone knows that walking is good for the constitution"

4. The speaker in the House of Commons will be replaced by the latest audio equipment

5. To help the Israel/Palestinian Problem, we will get rid of the old road map, and replace it with a new sat nav instead.

6. European Union: It is proposed that the European Union end its discrimination by creating a "Court of Human Lefts" because their present policy is one-sided.

7. Education: We will increase the number of Women teachers throughout the education System as we are strong believers of 'Female Intuition'

8. Immigration and Population: I propose that we cap the population of this country. We have too many people for such a small country, so we will Cap the number of people residing here at present rates (approximately 63 million, give or take 10 mill ) on the basis of one out, one in (excluding Births).

Regarding Immigration... Any Person who can prove that theyor their descendants emigrated to the U.K before 55 A.D can stay. All the others will be repatriated to their original country. (Well we haveto draw the line somewhere)

9. We will ban all forms of Greyhound racing. This will help stop the country going to the dogs.

10. Afghanistan, Iraq and the War on terror. There's nothing funny about this. however as we have not found any taliban terrorists in Derbyshire. Our Soldiers can all come home"

The late Screaming Lord Sutch would be proud of them

Friday, April 24, 2009

Catalogue Review

Album listed in latest catalogue from Christian bookshop: Hip Hope 2009. Don't do this to me!

Plenty of Bibles on special offer and surprisingly few books with titles along the lines of "Jesus can fix _______ in your life". I do believe Jesus can help people with all kinds of issues and problems; I'm just not convinced it's always as simple as some of these book titles imply.

Couple of conservative evangelical books with truth/teaching in the title and book on Romans in the same section - think I can guess the line they will take.

Glad to see the book on Darwin doesn't appear to be "only godless pagans believe in evolution" but was disappointed there were no items by Stormie Omartian, which has to be the best author name ever found on a Christian book.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

A gem of a video

Found this video of Sonseed lipsynching "Jesus is a friend of mine" via Maggie Dawn's blog, but a post describing the phenomenon which is Sonseed is here. There is a brilliantly unconcerned innocence about the whole thing. This isn't post-modern irony, it's just people oblivious to how naff they might look enjoying themselves.



Terrific. Apparently you can download the whole album here. I haven't.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Strictly Fun

Let's be clear - I don't watch Strictly Come Dancing. I live with X-Factor addicts, so the choice wouldn't be open to me anyway.

It's been fascinating to see the fuss being made about John Sergeant's departure and the apparent pressure he felt under because he was surviving when better dancers were voted out.

Sounds like a sense of humour failure with some people. It's a bit of fun for Saturday tea-time, not a technical context for dancing excellence. If you want to go to a 'proper' dancing contest, I'm sure the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool could oblige.

That's the trouble with letting people vote - they don't always choose the 'right' result!

To see Paxo interview Sergeant, click here

Saturday, November 01, 2008

Just for fun

Found this blog by accident from a friend of a friend (allegedly)

The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley

It's a brilliant spoof of Celtic and other forms of Christianity (spoof? we're serious I hear them cry). Druidism as satire on Anglicanism. I like it.

A couple of highlights I have so far discovered are:

Your cut-out-and-keep guide to Beaker Factions

and

Report from the Druidic Gorsedd Investigation into Human Sexuality

They also seem to have a devotion to the music of the late Kirsty McColl, and oblique references to Gabriel-era Genesis.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

recently noted quotation

That's the trouble with the British they don't do cheese properly, they're like Mild Cheddar...High School musical's real cheese , like Red Leicester.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

English Theme Tunes

My son was looking for theme tunes for his school English group - it was a task they were set this week. He settled on Paperback Writer by the Beatles (he is his father's son). I wondered what else we could suggest:

Great American Novel - Larry Norman
Lady Writer - Dire Straits

Help me out here!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

An Apocryphal Wedding Story

Robin Hood Statue, Nottingham.Image via Wikipedia
A clergy colleague in Nottingham once told the story of a wedding where the couple requested the theme from Robin Hood (ie Bryan Adams' Everything I do...) for the organist to play as the bride entered. However the organist made the quite understandable error of playing the theme from the TV series from the 1950s:

Sing up

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men
Feared by the bad, loved by the good;
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood!


He called the greatest archers to a tavern on the green,
They vowed to help the people of the king,
They settled all the trouble on the English country scene,
And still found plenty of time to sing...


If it happened, it must have been a bit difficult for the couple, but I bet you hope it really did take place.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Blackpool

Blackpool Illuminations 2006Image by Teckie Kev via Flickr
Took some students, including one of our international students (Russian) to Blackpool illuminations last night. I realised how difficult it is to explain Blackpool to someone from overseas. A seaside resort in the north, and then lots of people come to it in late autumn. And who had the idea of putting a million light bulbs up over a 6 mile stretch for 2 months? Just goes to show the range of things we see but never question.



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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Friday, January 05, 2007

Peatman

Did a random websearch for fellow Peatmans the other day, and came across this video of a song called Peatman. I think the hairy guy wandering into the audience is offering peat - he is the peat-man. At long last our obscure surname gains some musical recognition in the Hebrides.



lyrics (from the album Vom Your Sproggans):
Peatman
Peatman!
He wears black wellies
Peatman!
He's coming for you
Peatman!
He'll take all your peat’s away
Peatman!
You know what to do
You gotta run,run,run,run away
Running from the Peatman
Peatman!
He drives a black tractor
Peatman!
Mostly at night
Peatman!
If you see him coming
Peatman!
You'll get a terrible fright
You gotta run,run,run,run away
Running from the Peatman
Peatman!
He tows a black trailer
Peatman!
It's full up with peat
Peatman!
How did he get it
Peatman!
It's all done by deceit
You gotta run,run,run,run away
Running from the Peatman

lyrics (c) 2006 Dunringle

So there you have it!