That’s the trouble with Test Match Special: evocative commentary, unintentional innuendo, amusing anecdotes about furry-costumed Test Match attendees, bizarre guests (Bobby Charlton—what was that about?), occasionally slightly bonkers contributions from…
Read MoreI wrote a violent movie spoof last week that I didn’t post because of what happened in Russia. Yes, PooterGeek had a rare attack of taste and decency. Rest assured…
Read More…battle—a battle, I might add, in which you came under direct fire seven times, sustaining only two superficial bullet wounds. I wasch wearing my lucky bowtie, schir. But you weren’t…
Read More…may seem obvious to the likes of you with your Oxbridge education, but some of us aren’t so lucky. It’s people like us these clever money types take advantage of….
Read More…consider themselves lucky to have a building of any kind and are quite proud of it. Teacher Amandum Seray said, “It is very difficult, we don’t have enough teachers or…
Read MoreIt’s lucky that the Tory party is so comprehensively crap at the moment because its house journal, The Daily Telegraph, just gets better and better. As Backword Dave demonstrates almost…
Read More…way into the World. On paper, my origins are comically unfortunate, like something from Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen sketch or a Graham Greene. The reality is I’ve been bloody lucky,…
Read MoreThe Tomato Genome Sequencing Project is go. You can keep track of the progress of the international team at this site. The tomato lucky enough to have its genetic code…
Read More…house in its catchment area. The young people whose parents can afford to get them in, however, are very lucky indeed. Yesterday she rang me up for a gossip. In…
Read MoreMySpace sex offender charged with running “fake” church. It’s lucky they caught him before “real” churches became associated with fraud and the sexual abuse of children. Share this: Facebook Twitter…
Read MoreFor some lucky and rich people who describe themselves as Left-wing, one of the worst things about free markets is that they have given the oiks the freedom to enjoy…
Read More…in adult life, the associated professions – politics, theatre, journalism – now seem filled by self-replacing elites, which is both undemocratic and uninteresting. How lucky we are to live in…
Read More…be of interest to everyone (who is lucky enough to be well educated and living in the comfortable West). It’s about finding a job you love. Read it all. Here’s…
Read More…towards the office. The President rolls his eyes upward.] VP: Bloody hell, Tones! You were lucky there. That was one of my best on drives. Secret Service Man [into neck…
Read More…is editor of The Journal of Gene Medicine. There was a small crowd of single male Cambridge science nerds holding a tearful vigil outside the ceremony. Here’s Jo’s lucky husband…
Read MoreA popular, pro-war, Left-wing ‘Blog called “Harry’s Place” linked to PooterGeek this morning and the number of hits I’m getting is scary. It’s lucky you’re not here to download images…
Read More…too.) Half of all smokers eventually die of cancer or a smoking-related disease. Smoking tortures and destroys its victims in a variety of ugly ways. If they are lucky, they…
Read More…Miller: we can’t all be born rich, handsome and lucky, and that’s why we need some standards which shops like WHSmith should meet. Posted by Peter at August 17, 2005…
Read More…battle sub-Dr Who special effects and the world’s wussiest criminals. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was like one of those with a NASA-sized budget. It’s lucky Potter was played…
Read More…fortune and adulation are the right of any mediocrity who can cultivate Madonna-like self belief or is simply lucky enough to catch God’s eye—“God” being the media themselves. At the…
Read More…horrible and painful. Immediately after it had happened I think I was too concussed to realise the extent of the damage, but I’m lucky that it was as minor as…
Read More…(plus boys from grammar schools, and nice state schools, and whatever other islands of financially privileged education are available to the lucky). English Association Football is played by comprehensive school…
Read More…White Man with His Plan. And as for the blood, Pontius Pilate had a great way of dealing with that problem and—for those on this planet lucky enough to live…
Read More…rooms. I stand in front of the closed doors that lead to them with the contestant. (The lucky candidate is chosen from the studio audience by pushing ten randomly chosen…
Read More…any acknowledgement of my message from her. If Black Triangle’s transcript of an edition of Newsnight Review is accurate, it seems I had a lucky escape. Can you imagine what…
Read More…It’s lucky I’m not writing anything of any substance here at the moment—not that I ever do. This is just to let you know that I know. Share this: Facebook…
Read More…kickboxing team. A threatening comment from her will appear here within five minutes of him noticing the uptick in traffic to his site. If I’m lucky.) UPDATE: casualsavant knows my…
Read More…campus wasn’t that far from my home town. In those days, if you were one of the lucky minority at my school thinking seriously about university, it was considered deeply…
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