Author: Simon Dunn
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What A Gas
This isn’t what I was planning on sharing today, but sometimes you’re scouring for tiny articles in the archive, and you get distracted by big, gaudy ones like this. ‘Romped with a bevy of beauties’ is a phrase you only ever see in a tabloid newspaper. Here’s a preview of the movie, from the Folkestone,…
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What’s The Opposite Of A Cowboy Hat?
What would you do if a lawyer asked you why you’d filled your cowboy hat with chocolate buttons? Do not share, and do not enjoy.
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Fringe Cuttings
Yesterday we had a browse through the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe brochure. So today let’s travel a year further back and see what we can find in the 1996 one. Beginning with this. If you’ve not heard Simon Day’s Radio 4 show, you should. It features all of these characters (and more), and it’s excellent. Now,…
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Barcode Dress Code Decode
If you want to see the full Edinburgh Fringe brochure from 1997, you can look at it here. But here are some of the bits that jumped out at me as I digitally thumbed through it.
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Mary Whitehouse Versus Scum
Here’s a story told through newspaper clippings. It begins on Thursday the 15th of September, in 1983. The Belfast Telegraph tells its readers that Mary Whitehouse, the teacher who founded the National Viewers And Listeners Association, has been given leave by the High Court to seek a declaration that the Independent Broadcasting Authority breached its…
