As part of a theatre studies degree, a friend had to say how he would solve a famous problem with a dramatic work. He chose Waiting for Godot and the fact everyone knows Godot never comes.
His solution was listing someone as playing Godot in the cast list. Maybe he hoodwinked Mark Francois.
A cartoon of a woman peeking out of a window from behind a curtain at another woman. The second woman is standing in the garden, looking at a decorative piece of coloured rope, whichbis inexplicably suspended. The caption reads: "Alison was out there again, glowering at my tassel"
Lots of people sharing their favourite Glen Baxter cartoon. I can't pick one, but 35 years on, I remember the first I ever saw. I still love it now.
Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP
Just been approached by Huel to see if I'll be part of their paid influencer campaign. I don't think they're quite across what I do for a living. (FWIW, and in the interests of having influence, I regard Huel as a soul destroying, miserable product and the death of all that is worth living for.)
Take me down to the Cathedral City
Where the cheese is fine and it costs £4.50
Sure, "For sale, baby shoes, never worn" is poignant, but the #opentowork hashtag on LinkedIn is even more heartbreaking and in half as many words.
Two packets of 12 birthday candles.
Yes, yes, I know there is war and cancer and racism, but I am still peeved that it's the boy's 13th birthday and candles come in packs of 12.
This is brilliant. My brain went to 1964 and 1975 both being years when West Ham won the FA Cup.
If the Iranian football team are prevented from playing at the World Cup this summer, the Nobel Prize Committee should give them a "Nobel World Cup" that they can claim is more significant than the actual trophy.
This sort of behaviour inevitably has British commentators hand-wringing and saying "Nobody likes to see that."
If you don't like to see it, stand back so I can get a better view. I absolutely *love* to see it.
"Fires"?
We all know the zip code to Beverley Hills is 90210, but the zip code to Dawson's Creek is 90108 (for our lives to be over).
I collect names that also work as sentences. Tom Waits, Britney Spears, Gordon Banks, that sort of thing.
It's rare the sentence is as apt as "Matthew Swindells"
A big shirt?
It’s actually FEWER Misérables
Thoughts and prayers with Clapham at this difficult time.
If the Iranian football team are prevented from playing at the World Cup this summer, the Nobel Prize Committee should give them a "Nobel World Cup" that they can claim is more significant than the actual trophy.
Just because there is a gap for a steak pun, you don't need to fillet
Twat dooming Reform? (4,7)
Today's earworm: youtu.be/40ila3Rh9lQ?...
The Greens are going to win. They're going to show that you can win despite all the media hating and lying about you.
They are going to show so much of what we've been fed our entire lives in this country is just pure bullshit.
Maybe not today, but possibly.
Definitely soon.
Raising a glass to William Henry Harris. “London’s oldest man, and the inventor of tinsel.” (1939)
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A reminder that Rupert Lowe was chairman when Southampton FC signed Ali Dia.
I don't hate grapefruit but am annoyed by the etymology of the word. It's like they wanted to call it a grape, then added the "fruit" to distinguish it from the thing that was already called a grape. Without realising that the original grape is also a fruit.
In decades to come, I suspect this will be as implausible as Al Capone being done for tax evasion.
Very much in favour of Andrew getting arrested. Slightly disappointed it's for sharing trade secrets and not the whole sex with trafficked underage girls thing.
I always hoped Schroders would merge with ING, call the new company "SchrodINGers", and then leave investors to guess whether there was money in the funds or not.
Trafalgar Square in the rain last night. It's been 41 days of rain in the UK and while that means walking in #London leaves you damp and cold, the wet also helps highlight the beauty of the city.
if you have a ring camera you are a child, terrified of the silhouette of a jacket hanging on a chair. you are lower than a worm to me. you have sold your soul to a devil that has offered you nothing in return