If you want the real explanation (and the funniest) watch this. These two men have been making me laugh for over 40 years. Try to ignore the extremely posh English accents if you’re not from here; just listen carefully. You …
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The triumph of horseshit
I am just recovering from doing a seminar followed by a grand dinner in Almaty, which – as you all know, don’t you? – is the biggest city in Kazakhstan. This country is startlingly unlike the funny film that made …
Read MoreA sad confession
I normally pride myself on supplying my own jokes, but this one is just too good to ignore: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/government-takes-60%25-stake-in-al%11qaeda-200810141322/
Read MoreWhat America’s politicians really, really don’t get about the art of persuasion
I get at regular intervals messages from a liberal friend in San Francisco (where else?) Quite a few are very funny – and currently most are aimed at McCain and Palin. I’m staying with my son in Brooklyn. His wife …
Read MoreMy prayer for the recession
Good times breed bad habits – as we have all discovered, or – as the gentlemen on the left observed, “prosperity doth best discover vice; adversity doth best discover virtue”. More about him in a minute. Here are few things …
Read MoreFancy an interesting job?
If you want to know what has been done with the money you have paid in tax, apart from propping up banks that can’t count, go no further than the jobs pages of The Guardian. Because there are the jobs …
Read MoreUnderpants and Aussie politics – a fond reminiscence
Your’re not going to believe this, but life really is stranger than fiction. My second wife, Anna, was actually born Aroha Te Paora, and was a descendant of chief Honi Heke, the last man to start a shooting war with …
Read More“If their brains were gunpowder they couldn’t blow their noses”
As a lover of the well-turned phrase, I’ve always liked that one, but I’m just re-reading P. G. Wodehouse and being reminded just how funny he is. He summed up one character’s I. Q. thus: “Had his brain been constructed …
Read MoreComedian of the week … He-e-e-e-r-e’s Patrick!
Email marketers, doncha love ’em? Step forward, Patrick McGlone of cvent.com who sent me the following quite astonishing message, headed (unbelievably): Lunch Seminar – Best Practices for Event Management, Web Surveys and Email Marketing This strikingly imaginative heading was followed …
Read MoreAdvice from two millionaires
I greatly fear my old boss thinks I’m an idiot – so I’m going to change, starting now A while ago I went to have dinner in New York with him. He was CEO of the Ogilvy Group when I …
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