Back in them thar 90s I was listening to Orgy. My friend/co-worker heard it and loved them too. So she went off on her lunchbreak to Google them. She came out of her office white as a sheet, genuinely surprised at the results that had come up for that search. We still tease her about to this day. 😅
My doctor is getting stronger. I’m up to six apples a day and he just keeps inching closer
A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag
This is why whale punk had to happen
I suppose at least making them visible from six miles away means that you'll be able to spot the pervospecs before they're snapping pictures of you
Even without the idea of Nigel Farage dictating what museums should display, the idiotic requirement to organise displays chronologically is risible.
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For a jape, my brother set my alarm to go off during break time. He didn't know that break times had changed since he was at the same school. Went off during maths. I was mortified.
Am I remembering right that he was a university contemporary of Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones?
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS NATTER
A sign advertising coconut water except coconut is abbreviated to "cnut"
I didn't realise you could get tides in coconut water.
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
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"You can't beat it at Woolworth" sounds like something an old-time cop would say as he starts to write up a public decency charge
goooooing to the chip shop and we’re
gooooonnna get ha a a ddock
Time to dust off the "are you going all the way?" joke not used since the 1970s.
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Julian Cope, Birmingham Powerhouse, April 28 1987
A doll - possibly an action man - propped against a memorial beaker.The doll is now hairless and stares upwards. Their jacket is weather beaten, and their trousers are round their knees
#ThisIsntInstagram #Churchyard
They've seen some stuff
I don't know if this is one of the apps that Starmer scrolls, but just in case you do, Keir: probably not a good look to reveal you pay more attention to a statement from a random child than you do to the security vetting report on an ambassadorial appointment
Heartbreaking celebrity news this morning
UNSUNG HERO: Iris Long was an unlikely AIDS activist. A married chemist from Queens, she barely knew any gay people. She joined ACT UP to use her expertise to fight for treatments. May her memory be a blessing.
By Richard Sandomir, w/ a small assist from me.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
I don't think any are misplaced, just that they're holding together an inelegant sentence:
Evan's longtime sidekick Will Evans jokes that a 2015 series, which followed an anniversary special, was stymied by the host "going nuts"
text: There was an anniversary special and one new series in 2015, yet the comeback was stymied by Evans going “nuts”, jokes Will Macdonald, Evans’s longtime TFI sidekick, in this latest instalment
Is it me, or are there just too many commas here?
Just seen Geese live in Camden for Record Store Day. #recordstoreday
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
I love that the photo of Modern English looks like a bunch of people who have never met each other before
I'm not sure this is entirely true. They had to run advertising campaigns to persuade people to put ice in their drinks, never mind the constant 'you WILL have a computer one day' stuff from the 1980s. What's different this time is that the public isn't going "take my money".
You've been batting this idea round for while, I'm guessing
Utterly Betrayed The Rt Hon. Ralph St John Cholmondley having moped around glolmondley for three weeks in Belvoir with glandular felvoir, decided to surprise his fiancé in Frome. Bursting into the rome, he found her cavorting with an awick from Hawick (via Worcester), whose close attentions had left her all of a florcester. His fiancé, who hailed from Beaulieu, begged him not to get upset undeaulieu, as Ralph stared at them, boggle-eyed. Things aren’t how they look, she cried. Brian Bilston
Today’s poem is called ‘Utterly Betrayed’.
