Kepp cleap…keer clep…don’t park ‘ere
01 Apr 2010
As reported in today's Daily Mail. It was April Fool's Day though...
Crap politicians say
24 Mar 2010
Today is budget day in the UK. Also known as ‘we’re going to screw you just a bit more and hope you don’t notice’ day. In honour of the occasion, here are a few of the most annoying words and phrases that politicians insist on using. How many will we hear today, I wonder? Right and proper… Full and frank discussion… Look… Going forward… Listen… To be fair… Let’s be...
Apart from agenda, referendum, memorabilia et al., what have the Romans ever done for us?
18 Mar 2010
What with the 2054th anniversary of the death of Julius Caesar this week (Et tu, Brute?) and London’s mayor Boris Johnson urging state schools to start teaching Latin again, the old language has been in the news saepius sepius (frequently). Boris even went as far to say "I firmly believe that we must not starve the minds of students eager to...
We’re doing it for the childrens, child’s, chil….kids
12 Mar 2010
This blooper was spotted in the Arsenal programme for this week’s big match against Porto. (We won 5-0 since you ask. What? Oh you didn’t ask.) Fantastic cause. (Great Ormond Street Hospital). Amazing Football Club. But rotten old punctuation. Remember: Child in singular. Children is plural. Anything belonging to children is children’s....