Odd things in the world I found over the weekend....

The Corpse flower. Sounds good, doesn't it and apparently it smells even better! Having never smelt a corpse, maybe I should put that on my List Of Things To Do...I can only presume it's ghastly. It doesn't look particularly appetizing either. It blooms after a period of 13 years in all its smelly glory and people come from all over the world to visit Indonesia, whence it comes. One has even been called TED, and grew in the University of California - Botanical Conservatory. They were very happy because it lasted the longest flowering. I am sure this is appealing to the university and carrion eaters which would go into raptures at the smell, however I rather prefer smells as in perfume. I have not yet found a friend of mine who would like to join me in seeing this flower, so will have to go alone, and then cross it off my list, hoping that I live that long after having smelt it.

We come now to the Hagfish. Just look at what I found: Hagfishes, The adjective which best describes the Myxini is "Lovecraftian" I didn't know there was an adjective called Lovecraftian!! What a wonderful word! Can we use it in Scrabble? I certainly wouldn't use the word "Love" in anything to with this fish. Yuk would be more likely. This poor fish is pale pink, and is well known for the large quantities of sticky slime they produce. How appealing. Can you imagine going into a delicatessen and asking for: 400 millilitres of slime? Tasty!! They also have three accessory hearts, (quite cool) no cerebrum or cerebellum, (lots of people like this too, see People from Walmart..) no jaws or stomach, and will "sneeze" when their nostrils clog with their own slime. A very pleasant thought, no? They are found in cold ocean waters of both hemispheres, scavenging dead and dying fish but also preying on small invertebrates. I am positively delighted for them. I shall never go swimming in the sea again. They have, and do all sorts of other delightful things, which I will not mention, because you will also never go swimming again. They look positively revolting skinned, you find it on the web and see for yourself. However, the poor old Blobfish, still wins hands down in the ugliest fish ever. I am starting to feel very sorry for them and will probably adopt one out of pity. On second thought, I would have to be very drunk to do that.

The Star -nosed Mole. I like moles, they are rather pretty in a mole-ish sort of way. Blind as a bat, or Harry Potter, whichever your preference. This one though, has at the end of his nose, pink waving about tentacles. Quote" The star-nosed mole is covered in thick blackish brown water-repellent fur and has large scaled feet and a long thick tail, which appears to function as a fat storage reserve for the spring breeding season. The mole's most distinctive feature is a circle of 22 mobile, pink, fleshy tentacles at the end of the snout, from which they derive their name. These are used to identify food by touch, such as worms, insects and crustaceans" unquote. Have you seen them? They are not really a thing one could fall in love with immediately as say a Newfoundland or a French Bulldog, and want to take home with you. Their tentacles are covered with what is called: Eimers Organs. Aren't you learning a lot reading my blogs!! What I find absolutely fascinating is the fact that they can decipher what is prey, have the title of fastest-eating mammal, taking as short as 120 milliseconds (average: 227 milliseconds) to identify and consume individual food items. Its brain decides in the ultra short time of 8 ms if a prey is comestible or not. This speed is at the limit of the speed of neurons. Absolutely incredible. They also possess the ability to smell underwater. All actually fantastic because they are not one of nature's loveliest animals. I am sure another Star-nosed mole would love them and do, producing more Star-nosed Moles, as they are not on a danger list anywhere.

The Proboscis monkey! Now there's an animal with a whopper of a nose, and we all know the old adage about length of something on a man is relative to the size of his nose! WELLLLL. The lady monkeys must all be in 7th heaven! They are facing extinction though, which is very sad as they surely have produced many studies with nerdy students all making improbable guesses as to what exactly could be the length of a John Thomas as compared with its hooter! I'd like to know how they got their data.....

While I am over in this part of the world, namely Indonesia, Borneo etc. let's finish up with the Komodo dragon. The worlds largest, it is also disgusting. It has one of the worst cases of halitosis, barring the Hippo, which is even worse, that you can find. Their eating habits leave a lot to be desired too. Komodo dragons eat by tearing large chunks of flesh and swallowing them whole while holding the carcass down with their forelegs. For smaller prey up to the size of a goat, their loosely articulated jaws, flexible skull, and expandable stomach allow it to swallow its prey whole, juicy!! I'd open a school of manners over there. Copious amounts of red saliva (ugh) that the Komodo dragons produce, help to lubricate the food, but swallowing is still a long process (15–20 minutes to swallow a goat). Komodo dragons may attempt to speed up the process by ramming the carcass against a tree to force it down its throat, sometimes ramming so forcefully that the tree is knocked down. After eating up to 80 percent of its body weight in one meal, it drags itself to a sunny location to speed digestion, as the food could rot and poison the dragon if left undigested for too long. Sounds positively divine, doesn't it! I cannot imagine what their mating habits are like, and maybe it's just as well that I, and you, don't know.

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Interesting, do click, read it and check for yourselves....

www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001114.html

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Before I depart to a cocktail party... some headlines which amused me...

Kyrgyz toll could be much higher. Why? I wouldn't have thought that there were a lot of people going to Kyrgyzstan actually, as 90% of the people on earth probably have no idea where it is. So, why the toll? Should this be " As the Bell tolls" kind of thing, or what?

IMF says Spain's taking right steps. That's good to know I suppose, but for whom I have no idea. Have they lost the way to the left steps ? Certainly the normal person on the street hasn't a clue.

Bobby Fischer body to be exhumed. Whatever next. We learn of Michael Jackson going to appear in a video, now they are going to get Fischer up! Why? So he can teach a new form of chess, called "Moves from the Grave?" This is a lot of resurrection going on, I'd be careful if I were you.

Japan pledges to beat deflation. They have issued everybody in Japan with Ping-pong bats and are out to cause mayhem. The name of the games is " Find deflation and whack it till it dies." It will get rid of a lot of pent up emotions which the Japanese normally do not show. They will all come out with big smiles and a feeling of relief. Rather like taking laxatives.

Hitler industry. Great. Now we are going to have him pop up again, wasn't one shot of this berk enough? They will get him up out of whatever hole he has been buried, and market him. He'll look worse than poor old Michael when he comes out... Talk about Wes Craven...

Pregnancy ever more regulated. Now, I could go on about this for hours, but will leave you with this small thought. Regulation has nothing to do with pregnancy. It's a question of 2 different sexes bonking each other like mad to reach this point. There's no-one standing there going: Regulate, regulate, or have I missed something? Neither my daughters father nor I ever noticed anything whilst producing her...

Actually, there's a lot of ethnic violence going on in Kyrgyzstan, for which I am very sorry. I didn't cause it, even with my irreverant remarks on everything, but I do not like this sort of thing. Life's difficult enough, without hate.

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An article saying what I have thought since years. .............

I cannot download it as it's a PDF file, but it's The Times, 16.06.2010, artivle By José Maria Aznar, "Support Israel, if it goes down, we all go down".

Whether the people out there like this or not, it's a very interesting article written by an astute politician. And I have said this on many an occasion, also in former blogs.

I can't resist.....Tipped Spain in shock defeat.........

I am sitting in Spain as I write and have not felt myself going over sideways as yet. No earthquakes either as millions commit suicide and hit the deck...

Perhaps we will be flooded out with the mass tears which will no doubt come! Plus all the inevitable recriminations etc. I can't wait to see the headline tomorrow in the Spanish newspapers, it will be like the day of The Apocalypse! They will now have to cope with drastic cuts in the economy, mass protests as to this, then they will protest no doubt about the failure of the European champions in a sport which they thought they had sewn up... think again... oh the JOY of it!! I am vindicated. Football is a game for ........... All the players should now have their pay cheques cut in half or more, which will rebalance the national debt by a lot, and in general, all players should go back to school and learn to speak correctly and do a lot of other things which I will think of some other time.

Osborne to give bank more power. Since when has Ozzy become a bank manager? I know he writes for the Times, but a bank manager? Maybe he can sort out the Spanish debt. He'll probably do better than the lot in power have done for the last 8 years, with 2 more to go! Now, there's a just cause for committing suicide..

Something really serious and which I feel very strongly about, a headline from today's BBC news: Call to ban Iraq female mutilation. An absolutely dreadful, revolting practise which has no roots in Islam. Quote: It has no particular origins in Islam, although some clerics in Kurdistan have welcomed it because they believe it stifles sexual urges in young girls and women. No it doesn't. All it does is mutilate. It's done in the most appalling circumstances where the poor girl usually has no idea what is going on, causes ghastly injuries and pain for the rest of her life. I am glad that this is making headlines again as it is truly barbaric. Ban it everywhere...

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Michael Jackson once more......

Can't we leave the poor man alone? Apparently he's to star in a new video game coming out soon. Now, I know we have done wonders in the field of medicine, but resurrecting the dead I thought was for others....already done. He was weird enough in his normal life on earth, but I am seriously worried about when he comes back from the dead!!! What will he now look like?

Also in the news, is that wonderful lot called the Kyrgyz people. From having been nowhere at all in the news for goodness knows how long, they are popping up everywhere, in HEADLINES as well, can you believe it! I am glad they are getting their name out. It will make people enunciate better.

And last but not least, pregnant women are risking their feet by wearing high heels. I didn't when I was carrying my daughter, or does that account for her having bright pink hair now? I had happy feet.

In a survey, these were the results: 66% regularly wore flip flops, 32% wore high heels, 53% wore ballet pumps and 30% wore Ugg boots. Flip-flops are not good for your feet, they are seriously hideous when one is pregnant, because they produce the most irritating sound, as most women scuff along in them, and heavier women, i.e. pregnant, would be scuffier still. The ones which are really pretty are ridiculously expensive, the relationship being, the less one has on ones feet, the more expensive they are. I have yet to fathom this out.

The lot wearing high heels would certainly look a lot nicer, so long as they are not so heavy around the middle that they would topple forward, presumably rather fast, and hit the deck with a squelch.

The ones with ballet pumps? Now, when you are preggers, you certainly are not going to look like Margot Fonteyn or Sylvie Guillaume, lithe and svelte, so what's the point?

Then we come to those in UGG boots. Just the name reminds me of cave people, UGG, UGG, a really uggly name if ever there was one. Even the Kyrgyz have a better name. The lot who wear these presumably are looking for comfort, and their mates are presumably also fond of UGGs because they tolerate their womenfolk wearing them.

I'd prefer a Kyrgyz. It has a better ring to it, and makes you enunciate well. (See former point made higher up).

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It's hit me... headlines....

A teenager in Bali was ordered to tie the knot with a cow after being caught in a field standing naked behind the animal. Oh dear, times are really bad in Bali... he fainted after tying the knot with the cow, and she, poor thing, was drowned! I hope they don't do this sort of thing when a man and woman get married!

Actor Russell Crowe not dead. I hope someone told him this so he can rejoice and make merry, or something....

Region awaits Kyrgyz response. It's difficult alone just saying this name, let alone trying to spell it. Perhaps that's why they're not very often in the news.

Prehistoric mammal hair found in amber. NOW. There were very naughty mammals in them thar times. I wonder what they were up to to get the hair in a resin coming off a tree??? Anyone wish to make a guess??? GG rubbing? as per monkeys' ( Look it up.)

Cuba frees paraplegic dissident. Well I should bloody well think so. What did they expect him to do? Cause mayhem and havoc in a Cuban wheelchair?

Pakistan "Drunk" minister sacked. I seem to rememebr a minister in Japan who was accused of being drunk. He said it was his flu medication. Must have been quite something! I take flu medicine whe n the time arises, but am never drunk from it.

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Apropos of my previous post... and such things...

Lionel Messi, the Argentinian "best football player in the world", was asked the other day what his favourite insect was.
His answer: a monkey.
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Japan has been paying countries bribes in the form of prostitutes and cash to buy their votes for carrying out whaling. How nice. Not for the whales though. Why does it have to be done? They say" for research purposes ". Pray tell me what they are doing? The synthetics made today for all sorts of things, which before used to come from these magnificent mammmals, are hundreds of times better, so where's the necessity? As whale meat is primarily blubber, i.e. fat, I can't imagine it's very tasty, rather like eating congealed paste, I'd imagine. So, no nutrients there, well, what does it have? exactly nothing for us, a lot for the whale....
Quote "In addition to storing energy, blubber can also accumulate toxic contaminants. If a whale or seal ingests pollutants, those pollutants may be stored in the blubber layer, where they can harm the animal as it uses those energy reserves. " Sounds rather tasty too...
It is also useful having it, I suppose if you are going to dive to the same depths these mammals do, or swim at temperatures of 40F or 4C, however, I can't see many people doing this for fun.
Also " Recent studies suggest that blubber contains naturally occurring PCBs, carcinogens which damage the human nervous, immune and reproductive systems". HHMMM, doesn't sound too good either but it would account for a lot of weird people wandering about. ( See the photos taken of people in Walmart). So WTF are they being killed for? Do the Japanese wish to make their countrymen into some race of Mutants, like The X Men? If they'd turn one out like Hugh Jackman, I might agree, whiskers and all, but I don't think so.

Sweden also will vote for it being allowed. Now the Swedes have just gone down a lot in my eyes,(as have many other countries). I like their Gustavian style of interior design and most of their food is really very tasty, except for Surstromming, a fermented herring which stinks like nothing you can possibly imagine, rather like the poor old Blobfish in the beauty stakes, something to be avoided at all costs, and I had a couple of super dishy Swedish boyfriends too, but, that doesn't make up for the fact, that this sucks. In fact all the countries which are going to re-instate whaling are complete bloody idiots.

Just to end my Sunday rant, copied from a headline this morning: "Fans' fury as ITV's HD coverage misses England's first World Cup goal... and switches to a car advert instead". How absolutely pathetic. Get a life.

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Football

Have you seen the nonsense at the opening of the world cup in South Africa? Explain to this obviously stupid person, why, with all the poverty there is there, and in other African nations, the governments have to spend MILLIONS on something like this? Surely the money spent on this could have been better used for the poor? It's all very well saying that this will bring revenue into the country. With the world in recession, I doubt it.
And my absolute pet hate: THE APPALLING AND OBSCENE AMOUNTS OF MONEY PAID TO FOOTBALLERS, WHO WHEN INTERVIEWED, CAN'T STRING 2 WORDS TOGETHER TO MAKE A CONSTRUCTIVE SENTENCE, AND HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SPEAK!!!

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Well, well!!!

I saw this morning in the Times, that the Saudi's have left an airspace through the northern part of the kingdom to allow Israeli fighters and bombers to get to Iran should it be necessary!!!
I never thought I'd live to see this! Knowing of course that Israel could wipe out most of the Middle East at the press of a button in a few minutes,as they have nuclear weapons, probably woke the Saudis up a bit more to getting themselves on the Israelis side. This was a good move. It'll send a message to Teheran, that is if anyone out there is looking. They are, for sure. I'd love to hear what they are all thinking now.

I also saw footage of Israeli soldiers offloading a ship destined with "humanitarian goods" for Gaza. Guess what they found at the back, hidden behind bags of flour? Hundreds and hundreds of mortars, grenades, bazookas etc. etc. I fail to see what there is humanitarian about this, it only proves what the Israelis have said all along. I realize that there is an dreadful amount of human suffering in Gaza, yes, but they voted in a terrorist government in the form of Hammas, didn't they. What do they expect from the Israelis? 7000 rockets shot into Israel over the period of a year means some kind of retaliation, doesn't it. It's all very complicated and yet it isn't. The Middle East will never be peaceful. I think they should all be happy that the Israelis have not yet pushed the button and wiped everyone out!

Some more nonsense to end this week, I hope you like the photo. I find it hilarious..

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Some nonsense from moi....after my rant of before

Headlines.
Seal uses whiskers to sense faraway fish. Does Heidi Klum know this???
China inflation outstrips target. Really? Are they inflating 20,50,or 100 metres? Or just stripping off? The mind boggles......
Hewitt on Europe. He's standing on it if he's anywhere between Ireland and Turkey.
Flotilla fallout. Obviously a lot of in fighting going on between them which we know nothing about. Or a nuclear explosion, which we know nothing about either...
Meat eating linked to early periods. This will be a tremendous relief to millions of women, who, after having suffered for years not knowing this, will now all switch to eating fish or veggies.
One of my favourites: Severed heads found in Guatemala. There are now a lot of headless bodies walking around. Reminds me of most politicians.
Toddler died of methadone dose. What will parents think of next to keep their children quiet. Actually, these 2 should be castrated and spayed and that's too good for them. The gave the child methadone to keep him quiet!!!!!!. How sick are some people?

And with that bout of total irreverance for the headlines, that's my interpretation. I hope you found them amusing.

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Unbelievable......

A seven-year-old boy was murdered by the Taleban in an apparent act of retribution this week. Afghan officials said that the child was accused of spying for US and Nato forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan.

Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor of Helmand, said that the killing happened days after the boy’s grandfather, Abdul Woodod Alokozai, spoke out against militants in their home village.

Mr Ahmadi said: “His grandfather is a tribal elder in the village and the village is under the control of the Taleban. His grandfather said some good things about the Government and he formed a small group of people to stand against the Taleban. That’s why the Taleban killed his grandson in revenge.”

Isn't it simply amazing. I am, for once, speechless. This is just unbelievable. The Taliban should all be put up against a wall and summarily shot and that's too good for them.

Qari Yousef Ahmaid, the Taleban spokesman, denied that any of his militants were involved. “The Taleban’s enemies are the Afghan Government and the foreign forces,” he said. “We never kill children. Everyone knows a seven-year-old can’t be a spy.”

Oh really? I have seen some nasty things which you have done against children. You teach them at an early age to hate, which is the worst thing possible. Children should be out playing and having fun, not wielding weapons.

Let's go on from there, as you all conveniently forget a lot of things you all do. What should we think about your interpretation of Islam, which forbids women to go freely in the streets, accepts burning girls and women for trying to get an education, accepts that "the family honour" can be revenged in the most horrendous ways? When I read the Koran, I can't recall anything like this there. It doesn't say that women have to be covered from head to foot either, simply that both men and women, quote " should be modestly attired" unquote. Also you go around beating people for the slightest imagined thing, chopping off womens fingers if their nails are painted, they are not allowed to this, nor that, the list is endless. Beatings after beatings, no wonder you are all hated. Look at you all. You are a disgrace as human beings, and ugly to boot and this comes from you from within.

It's an interpretation of a religion, which you say forbids and forbids, any freedom of thought, no music, no art, in fact, no nothing. Do you honestly think that after you have gone around killing people, that there will be anyone to teach, educate, look after the ill and infirm, etc. etc..... an endless list. I can't see it. Your world is full of hate. How sad you all are. Islam does not say this anywhere. You can't exist without the western world, whether you like it or not. You use guns from the west to kill. Go out and kill people with your bare hands, if you renounce the west. Let's see how far you'll get.

I dislike you intensely, and that's putting it mildly. You are a plague which should be stamped out, so people can be let free to live as they want. And Pres. Karzai, you are a corrupt idiot who has done much to bring all this about in your country, as have all the corrupt politicians in Afghan politics, with few exceptions. Where has all the aid you receive, billions and billions gone? On the streets? Where?? Afghans were a free people not so long ago with a King, but people don't know this or have forgotten. Afghans were educated, travelled and free. Both men and women. A flourishing country with a great culture. Now all in ruins, and for what.The free Afghans certainly are a vanishing species under the Taliban.

We don't like you. We don't like radicalism in any form. Christianity has committed horrors too, all in the name of "God". I don't say that it hasn't. But, we have moved on and you have gone backwards. Don't think there are 70 virgins waiting for you in heaven when, and if you should ever get there. There aren't.

Radicalism anywhere is a curse. In all religions, in all thinking. There are enough brutal despots littering history to prove it. Everywhere you look, especially in Africa, there is an effort to control people through hate and fear. My religion doesn't teach me that. It teaches the word of LOVE, infinitely better than your ideas and beliefs. Islam also says LOVE but, through your interpretation of Islam, there is none to see, only fear. However, I unfortunately see more violence and hate for anything which you do not think should be done, rampant in all the poorest countries. To be expected maybe when, if one doesn't have any food, one is too weak to resist, but should not be exploited. The Koran does not teach this.

All churches have through the ages committed unspeakable acts of violence towards any "unbeliever". But, is it not infinitely better, much harder too, to look inside ourselves and find the power of forgiving. I find it very hard indeed, but have managed it, and I am definitely no saint.

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Apologies

to Hunter S. Thompson ( see earlier blog )who went to other worlds some time ago. How he lasted as long as he did, was a miracle. He had a Hawaiian sidekick called Gonzo, what a wonderful name, reminds me of the Muppet character.

US porn actor in 40 foot fall......... oh dear, this conjured up all sorts of weird images.
Brain helps control cholesterol...... obviously there are a LOT of very stupid people wandering about then.
Pope appeals for Middle East calm..... he should get calm back into his church before telling others what to do.
Flood alerts following heavy rain..... well they would hardly come after drought now, would they?

Some of the wonderful headlines I have found..... they keep me, and hopefully you, amused.

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News on Sunday.........

Let me ask you a question, Mr Osbourne,” a doctor in America once said to me, after I’d listed all the heavy-duty substances I’d been abusing since the 1960s.
“All right,” I said. “Go ahead."
The doctor put down his notebook, loosened his tie a bit, and let out this long, weary sigh.
“Why are you still alive?"
Ozzy Osbourne has now been contracted by the Times of London, to write a column and I hope he keeps on the way he started, it was hysterical, especially when he talks about having a test for prostate cancer, I quote, hopefully with no repercussions: One guy even asked: “Where is it?” I told him, “Up your arse,” and he went: “How do they check that, then?” I said: “How do you think? It starts with a rubber glove and ends with your voice rising 10 octaves.”

Exactly, it's like Jordan from a few posts back and Dennis Hopper, a seriously screwed up man if ever there was one and of course the famous Hunter S. Thompson. When you see what these people put down their throats, it is a wonder that they are still alive. How do they do it? It makes me feel ill reading about it! I mean they are walking pharmaceutical companies!! ANd I'm forgetting all the drink as well. It would be fun to do an autopsy on them I suppose, like
"Who's got more in them tonight?" than the other..one could make it into a TV series... now there's a thought.

I hate drugs like I hate guns. I am talking about the "recreational" drugs.. what's recreational about them? One becomes a junkie, spends vast amounts of money mostly that one doesn't have in the first place, apart from "Stars", does the most appalling things to oneself and others, all because of a fix and normally ends up dead faster much than anticipated. Not really much fun, I would think.

Guns kill. We can go on about the " right to bear arms , ok I suppose if you were living in an area with whole mobs of gangs, but most of us don't. If you take away guns, you take away a LOT of killing. It's not the same to blindly shoot, or shoot with intent and purpose, someone, whilst being 150 metres away, or kill someone with a knife, where you have to go up to that person, who definitely won't like what you're trying to do in the first place and will usually vehemently resist, and then slit their throats, or stab them.

IT'S NOT THE SAME.. GUNS KILL, take them away. And then lets'see how many killings there would be.

To leave you with a bit of nonsense, have a good look at the photo... brilliant:

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Wonderful things from the UK.............

Commenting on a complaint from a Mr. ArthurPurdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West Gas said,
"We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr.
Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that
destroyed his house.".......... says it all, doesn't it...

A list of actual announcements that London Tube drivers have made to their passengers...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologise for the delay to your service. I know you're all dying to get home, unless, of course, you happen to be married to my ex-wife, in which case you'll want to cross over to the Westbound and go in the opposite
direction."
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"Your delay this evening is caused by the line controller suffering from E & B syndrome: not knowing his elbow from his backside. I'll let you know any further information as soon as I'm given any."
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"Let the passengers off the train FIRST!" (Pause.) "Oh go on then, stuff yourselves in like sardines, see if I care -- I'm going home...."
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"Please move all baggage away from the doors." (Pause..) "Please move ALL belongings away from the doors." (Pause...) "This is a personal message to the man in the brown suit wearing glasses at the rear of the train: Put the pie down, Four-eyes, and move your bloody golf clubs away from the door before I come down there and shove them up your arse sideways!"

I thought we need a bit of levity for the end of a week of sorrows. I hope you enjoyed them, I did!

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Glamour........

Has more or less disappeared. Such a shame. I was looking at something MSN posted this morning about glamorous films and Audrey Hepburn was in 3, Marylin in 2 and there were a good choice of others. Audrey was elegance personified, even in "The Nun's Story" walking around in a habit, and don't let's forget "My Fair Lady", breathtaking.....

The so called stars we have today look for the most time, when caught on camera, like something the cat's brought home on a bad night and probably smell as bad. They mostly wear too little, I'm talking about the women here..on second thoughts, some men too, or overdo the bling and look like walking Christmas trees, and they have what is called a "stylist???". hhhmmmm The men can't find anything else except a shirt hanging over their trousers, the inevitable bloody jeans, stubble, YUK. NO thank you. OK, men don't have to wear suits all the time, but there is so much more out there than jeans! Adn you look a lot nicer without the facial fuzz... it's dirty looking.

And then we have to take into consideration the amount of Botox, nips, tucks, pulls and tweaks, but this has spread to the men too. Where's the glamour? We see " Paris getting raunchy in Paris" Is this a double entendre or is Miss Hilton just being her usual annoying self? Then we get endless things about the poor mans Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Kim Kardashian, who is this woman??? do I want to know??? does she actually do something?? etc.

Where has glamour gone? I used to wear beautiful cocktail dresses and jewellery when going out at a weekend or to parties, and wish those days would come back, because my clothes are sitting in a wardrobe looking very glum. Yes, I know times have changed, but sitting here, watching this endless parade of flesh and tacky behaviour, quite frankly, I liked it all better before.

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