There was widespread outrage today at the decision by the editors of the Daily Express to publish a news story about cheese which featured no puns whatsoever.
Posted: Feb 17th, 2010
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France insisted yesterday that from now on it wished to be referred to as ‘the nation formerly known as France’, and that any documented reference to the country should stated as @, and that the @ is unpronouncable and ‘means nothing’, and that as such in all technical senses it does not exist.
Posted: Feb 15th, 2010
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Marlboro are facing a fresh legal challenge, this week, after the horse who worked on their iconic ‘Marlboro Cowboy’ commercials claimed his lung cancer is a result of passive smoking.
Posted: Aug 10th, 2009
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A furious debate about Nazi war crimes and shopping erupted yesterday after a leading historian found what, he claims, is the original copy of Schindler’s List ‘stuffed down the back of a couch’. The list was originally said to have contained the names of people saved from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, and given work in Schindler’s factories.
‘The list looked a lot longer than it really was because it also included all the things he had to remember to get from the shops.
Posted: May 31st, 2009
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The Communications Workers Union today condemned the management of the Post Office in Harrow for sacking queue announcer Shirley Crookshank after her directions sent a customer to the occupied cashier number 4, instead of the vacant cashier number 6.
Posted: Apr 27th, 2009
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