With Britain’s high streets in terminal decline, there are fears that another household name is facing financial trouble. With 2,684 outlets across some 35 towns, Gordon’s Second-hand Monkey Faeces Emporium could be staring at its last buck.
Posted: Jan 27th, 2013
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Cyclical funnyman Alexander Armstrong has finally come clean, and apologised for his role in a series of Direct Line commercials. In a lengthy interview, Armstrong said he ‘didn’t feel guilty’ about promoting the RBS-owned business, and had been Direct Lining for ‘months, maybe years’. But like legendary Direct Liners before him including Stephen Fry and Paul Merton, Alexander felt under pressure to ‘earn, at all costs.’
Posted: Jan 19th, 2013
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An apology by Tesco for muddling up animals may have contained traces of horseshit, say regulators.
Inspectors recently discovered that Tesco had as little idea what was inside the products it passed off as ‘food’ as its most trusting of customers. Uncowed, the supermarket took immediate action, and ponied up for a lot more advertising.
Posted: Jan 18th, 2013
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Heavily armed introverts have slammed a decision by the NRA to exclusively release their new shooting game on the iPad. ‘NRA: Practice What You Breech’ is available for download through iTunes, if you can trust those pinko liberals with your data.
Posted: Jan 17th, 2013
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Former politician Ken Livingstone has announced with quiet dignity on national radio that he ‘jumped at the chance’ to turn down a CBE.
Livingstone explained that he didn’t think politicians should be eligible for the honour, but at the same time wanted as many people as possible to know that he’d been offered one.
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