Sad news this weekend - Humphrey Lyttelton has died. Aside from his amazing Jazz talents, he has kept me laughing for the last many years as host of the legendary antidote to panel games, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.
Thanks Humph for all you did to add an extra bit of happiness to the lives of your vast armies of Radio 4 listeners. Here’s wishing you good luck in your new role chairing the heavenly heats of the Mornington Crescent championships.
Goodbye.
14-9. Poor old France. Guess who’s going through to the Rugby World Cup final again?!
Looked a bit dodgy at 70 minutes but Jonny Wilkinson delivered once more, this time with a stunning drop goal just a couple of minutes after putting us in front thanks to a penalty.
World Champions again? It’s certainly looking more promising than it was…
Sorry, but the opportunity of that pun was too good not to take.
Manchester becomes the first super casino city in the UK.
Which all means, we’ve still got no clue what to do with the giant tent on the Thames. If only they’d take my idea seriously of making it into the world’s coolest slide like at the start of The World Is Not Enough.
BBC Breakfast News may not be the most rigorous or intellectual of the Corporation’s news broadcasts, but it often provides oddities worthy of comment.
Take this morning for instance. There was the NASA Big Cheese talking about sending men back to the Moon, and how it’s a little way off yet to talk about colonising the planet.
After all that fuss last year by the clever scientist folk about whether Pluto and a whole bunch of big rocks were planets, the Big Wigs still don’t seem to know what is and what isn’t one.
I thought everybody knew the Moon wasn’t a planet because it is made out of cheese. If it were then every time we went to Sainsbury’s NASA would be trying to land astronauts on the dairy counter.
Over the past few hours North Korea has test-launched a set of missiles, one or more of which within potential range of the United States. Obviously this is major news, but only the BBC are reporting the whole truth:
Spotted on the BBC Homepage
I didn’t realise Prescott’s career had got so bad he was now being used as a WMD.
National Lampoon’s Vacation is a great movie starring the Griswold family who, funnily enough, are going on holiday. After a rather harrowing journey and two deaths on the way, they finally arrive at WallyWorld theme park only to find it shut.
Of course, nobody would be stupid enough to make that kind of error in real life. It’s simple enough to check with a theme park they’ll actually be open before you drive all the way there. Especially if you’re taking a bus load of school kids on a four hour trip to the park.
Or maybe not. Doh!
