At a press conference held today in London’s St Mary-le-Bow church, the home of the famous Bow bells that define cockney identity, it was announced that rhyming slang would be granted official language status alongside English and French at the 2012 Olympics.
Posted: Feb 28th, 2011
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On reading one entitled “Are You Letting Her Down?”, John felt he had to confront some of his basic fears; namely that he is letting his wife/girlfriend down. He could put a smile on her face if he was “larrrger”.
Posted: Feb 28th, 2011
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David Cameron has played down reports that members of his own cabinet are calling the plan to send HMS Cumberland to rescue 200 Britons stranded in the middle of the Libyan desert ‘a bad idea’.
Posted: Feb 28th, 2011
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Members of the ‘Confederation of Dictators, Tyrants, Autocrats and Unelected Heads of State’ have been vigorously defending the latest round of bonuses that they have awarded themselves over the past twelve months – a year which has seen the public standing of brutal autocrats drop to its lowest level in over half a century.
Posted: Feb 27th, 2011
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Calm is gradually returning to the streets of Tripoli and other cities, after 100,000 copies of Star magazine were parachuted into the country by the RAF. This, reports say, has led to angry factions laying aside their differences and properly absorbing themselves in fatuous trivia for the first time in their lives.
Posted: Feb 27th, 2011
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