12th, January 2014
In Pictures
Shotput Faces
Now. Who wants to be the shotputter..? More »
12th, January 2014
Celebrities
Singers and Swingers In the Kitchen: The 1967 'Scene-Makers Cookbook'
Theses cats were the original celebrity master chefs. With recipes from The Rolling Stones, Leonard Nimoy, The Byrds, Leonard Nimoy, Omar Sharif (Southern Fried Chicken), Barbra Streisand, Peter Tork, Liza Minelli, Simon & Garfunkel, the Mamas & Papas, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Paul Anka, Party Spaghetti and The Buckinghams (if you have to ask, you just weren't there)... More »
11th, January 2014
Key Posts
9 Free Tony Miano: If You Love Free Speech Let The Anti-Gay Christian Preacher Talk
Our increasingly intolerant society, which seeks to be offended by anything and then whine about it until the offender is shamed into conformity, has seen to it that a preacher has been arrested in Dundee. American street evangelist Tony Miano had been talking about sexual sin... More »
11th, January 2014
Flashback
Barry White’s Animated Thoughts On Making Love And Not Blowing Up A Nation
This animated interview with late great 1970s singing love walrus Barry White, throbbing growler of such bedroom-of-kitchen-sofa- you-name it-friendly hits as Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love Baby, You’re the First, the Last, My Everything, It's Only Love Doing It's Thing, Love Theme and the puntastic Love Making Music is a soothing appeal to our loving souls... More »
11th, January 2014
Flashback
Elizabeth Cotten Plays In The Cotten Picking Fashion
The original Cotten picker... More »
11th, January 2014
Strange But True
Sidcup Kent McDonald's Bans 'Youths' From Being 'Serverd'
What now for youths of Sidcup..? More »
11th, January 2014
Sports
Faces of the Day: Hull City Fans Salute The Sun
Is this a new salute? More »
11th, January 2014
Books
Enid Blyton's Least Popular Novel
Blyton didn't just write for children... More »
11th, January 2014
Flashback
Paul Simon's 1992 South Africa Tour Was In Another World To His 1985 Graceland Mission
On January 11 1992, Paul Simon kicked off his South Africa tour. He'd visited the country before, back in 1985 in defiance of the UN-sponsored cultural boycott against apartheid... More »
11th, January 2014
Strange But True
Potato Ambassador Digs Up Bits Of Local Woman In Market Harborough, Leicestershire
“Kevin the managing director brought it into the office and everyone fell around laughing. He’d been sorting the potatoes which had been harvested and found this. It was hilarious.”... More »
11th, January 2014
Celebrities
Max Clifford Mint Presents Princess Diana And Jade Goody Heirloom Figurine
"From the authentic matchplay-grade table tennis table, to the bats backed with genuine dimpled rubber, to the intricately sculpted angel wings, every details of this collectors' heirloom figurine is designed to give you joy" ... More »
11th, January 2014
Reviews
The Westboro Baptist Church's Vines Are Maddeningly Good
The Westboro Baptist Church is one of those things that we're quite happy exists. If nothing else the WBC serves to unite the rest of humanity is a community of 'Life's Not Too Bad Really'... More »
11th, January 2014
Politicians
Francois Hollande And The Actor: PC Abandonment of The Word 'Actress' Sparks Gay Rumours
President Francois Hollande has been discussing Mali with Julie Gayet. Incredibly, news that a French politician shags around is, well, newsworthy. But as the tabloids make ready to break the news that Katie Price sleeps on her back and Simon Cowell owns just 8 CDs, we notice a funny thing: many in the media are referring to Gayet as an "actor"... More »
10th, January 2014
Flashback
3 10 Intensely Disturbing Public Service Announcements
It’s a bit disarming when a normally light hearted medium abruptly ditches the funny capers in favor of deep, dark and depressing public service messages. I understand the good intentions behind it, so I don’t want to be too hard on them. However, there’s just something creepy about horrific real-life entering children’s comics... More »
10th, January 2014
Celebrities
Tom Mix Was Hollywood's Original Cowboy Tough Guy (Photo)
Tom Mix - January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940 - was an American silent film actor who starred in hundreds of films... More »
10th, January 2014
Key Posts
Hilarious: Idiotic Pastor Daniel Castle Explains The Evils Of MTV's Wonder Showzen
Pastor Daniel Castle is no fan of MTV's Wonder Showzen, the Sesame Street parody. Pastor Castle thinks it's real. And - yep - Pastor Daniel is real. He should be work of parody. But he isn't... More »
10th, January 2014
Key Posts
3 Checking The Daily Mail: Richard Littlejohn, The Mark Duggan Peacemaker? Bollocks
Imagine you’re Richard Littlejohn. Once you’ve stopped vomiting, imagine how you’d feel when you heard that the inquest into the death of Mark Duggan had given its verdict... More »
10th, January 2014
Reviews
2 The Andrew Mitchell Pleb Story Appealed To Anti-Posh Bigots: Police Don't Only Lie About Poor Blacks
PC Keith Wallis is a liar. The 53-year-old pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office. He lied when he said that he his nephew had heard the then Tory Party chief whip Mitchell call officers guarding Downing Street "plebs"... More »
10th, January 2014
Strange But True
For Sale: Teddington House With Two Dead Bodies
Believed to date from 1875 and one of only three buildings of Townscape Merit in Schoolhouse Lane, this building, along with no 23, was probably built as a Pub since it has an imposing pedimented top and pediments over the windows... Go on... More »
10th, January 2014
Sports
Football Balls: Sampdoria Fans Surrounded By Police Protection Away At Roma And Saluting Arrigo Brovedani
The age-old reply to the Sampa fan's question "What time does the Roma-Sampdoria game start?" is "What time can you get here?" A few made it to the Coppa Italia match at the Stadio Olimpico... More »
10th, January 2014
Reviews
Chelsea Rained Off And Everton Beat Norwich Win 17-0
Your Premier League predictions are brought to you by Mark 'Lawro' Lawrenson, Robert 'Never Bobby' De Niro & Sylvester 'Sly' Stallone. Lawrenson is billed as "BBC football expert"... More »
10th, January 2014
Key Posts
2 45 Sinfully Underplayed Songs of the 60s and 70s
The list before you is to help insert some new blood into your playlists. I’m always appreciative of a recommendation, so I figured some of you would be as well... More »
10th, January 2014
Flashback
In The 1970s A Stripper Performed For 'God' At The Toronto Stock Exchange (Photos)
Try and do it now and see what happens? ... More »
10th, January 2014
Flashback
Can You Practise French Kissing On The Dog?
CAN You Practise French Kissing On The Dog? Did anyone really ask that of Jackie magazine's agony aunts in the 1970s. Victoria Lambert writes in the Telegraph... More »
10th, January 2014
In Pictures
Toon Bombing In Toronto
Aiden Glenn has been adding fun and life to Liberty Village, Toronto, with his googly-eyed faces. You can see more of his 'Toon Bombing' on his Tumblr... More »
