Did you see a video I made the other day about the mysterious word Buckshee? In it I mentioned a man who had built a very successful business after watching a video made 20 odd years ago. I have never …
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Gorillas make £437,000 – plus a few Euro-moans from the aged scribe
I watched a story the other day about the remarkable degree to which gorillas behave like and can communicate with humans. There has recently been a plague of fancifully decorated gorillas in Bristol, placed in prominent places to raise money …
Read MoreGorillas make £437,000 – plus a few Euro-moans from the aged scribe
I watched a story the other day about the remarkable degree to which gorillas behave like and can communicate with humans. There has recently been a plague of fancifully decorated gorillas in Bristol, placed in prominent places to raise money …
Read MoreThe funniest direct marketing speech ever – and James Hammond
I cannot say the words direct marketing often reduce me to paroxysms of mirth. However, a speech I saw a few years ago did. It was at a direct marketing awards event which I attended because someone else was paying. …
Read MoreSomething buckshee after the usual touches of the ludicrous – including Beauty and the Beasts
I had a couple of good laughs the other day – one about a love triangle, the other about a predictable display of political hypocrisy from the younger Milipede. The first was a story about the wife of an MP …
Read MoreTranscendental bollocks: the new hocus-pocus … or the rise of hyper-garbage
Don’t you think it strange that someone you never heard of with not the slightest talent – just a desire to make a fool of themselves in a show you’d never want to watch – is called a “star”. Yet …
Read MoreLogo insanity stalks the land – and Mr. Miliband moves us all to tears
How does design affect results? Take the 2011 Olympics logo – the visual equivalent of dogshit on a pavement. It’s hard to believe it can have done anything but harm, managing as it does to combine so deftly the hideous …
Read MoreSheer delight and a dash of misery from Bill Bryson
Schubert and Beethoven were walking down a street one day when they heard someone playing Mozart. Beethoven turned to his companion and said “You and I will never write anything that good.” I feel about the same every time I …
Read MoreA timely message bearing in mind the antics of Mr.Tindall
Who said rugby players weren’t intelligent? Jono Gibbs, Chiefs “Nobody in Rugby should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” Phil Waugh “We actually got the winning try three minutes from the end but then …
Read MoreVariations on an old rib-tickler …
God knows when I first heard a version of this, but I liked this one Over five thousand years ago Moses said to the children of Israel, “Pick up your shovel, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead …
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