I peeled it at the pointy end and then ate it.

Somebody called Simon Armatage has been made the poet laureate,





The main question I have is, is that a wig?

I think I hate him, but I can't remember why. I might be mixing him up with someone else.

I think I'm getting him confused with some other professional northerner who occasionally pops up on things like Marc Radcliffe radio show or something.

To be fair, after the years of training i got at school I automatically turn off when I hear poetry.

My friend's husband was forced to be part of the panel that chose him.

He secretly hates poetry and kept telling the woman who roped him in that he didn't really know much about poetry, but she kept saying "but that's exactly why you're perfect", so he was cornered.

The shame... Britain's sliding down the table of drinkers. We're only 20th in the world. And that's as far as I got until the pay wall kicked in.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-slides-down-table-of-the-world-s-top-tipplers-77tsrx7wh

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/jim-beam-whiskey-kentucky-warehouse-fire-today-2019-07-03/

They're stopping production of Mad Magazine.

To be fair, I've not read a copy since about 1988.

And then it was an copy from 1976. From when it was good.

Was it genuine American MAD, or the British version with really crap cultural translations crudely pasted onto the cartoon captions?

Don Martin is a God.

Spy vs. Spy was ace as well.

I could never decide if I liked Spy vs Spy vs Spy (with the glamorous grey lady spy) better, or not.

Fangirl Three wrote:

Was it genuine American MAD, or the British version with really crap cultural translations crudely pasted onto the cartoon captions?

Let's put it this way, I knew who Spiro Agnew was.

I remember having one where they were going on about the n*dism craze and they'd pasted Brighton beach all over where it was that it first caught on in the US.

'Foul Stench'

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/horrendous-smell-reported-over-parts-16840843