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  • What Is A Hotdog?
    What Is A Hotdog?

    We all know what a Hotdog is, right? It’s a sausage in a bun. But after that, it gets rather complicated. Is the sausage the dog in the hotdog? If so, why are they called hotdog sausages? Shouldn’t they just be called Dogs? And then, when heated, they become hot Dogs, right? So, doesn’t that…

  • Why Don’t They Collect Letters When They Deliver Letters?
    Why Don’t They Collect Letters When They Deliver Letters?

    Every day, someone comes to your door and slips all sorts of things through your letter box, or stuffs all sorts of things into your mailbox. And every day, that same person walks away empty handed. And sometimes, you have something inside the house that you need to carry to a box in the street,…

  • Monopoly Ruined The World
    Monopoly Ruined The World

    If you know me, or follow this blog, you know I have a deep love of board games. And you probably know that I dislike Monopoly, even when it’s played properly. That shouldn’t taint the following assertion though, because it’s truer that a true thing strapped to a polygraph. Monopoly ruined the world. The generation…

  • Wedded Twits
    Wedded Twits

    We were playing a board game last week called Reminiscing. From the box it looked like one of those crappy games you might reluctantly play at Christmas, but it turned out to be a lot of fun, and encouraged plenty of story telling and well, reminiscing. One of the dozens of childhood memories it threw…

  • Stupid Sign
    Stupid Sign

    I saw this sign. It bothers me. How exactly are they going to enforce this? What if someone in a pub down the road orders a pint of beer? Will someone from the staff have to go outside the premises and snatch the beer from that person’s hand? Idiots.

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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