Warning – this article may contain gross exaggeration, painful puns and slight traces of humour. Do not read if you’re feeling overly full of food as it may cause vomiting or worse. It was a special birthday dinner...
“The player in distinctive costume at the front of the (street) car controls a crank, by means of which he is able to bring the car to a sudden stop or cause it to plunge violently forward. His aim in so doing is to cause all...
I saw a picture on the internet of a tongue lolling greyhound who had been labelled “Jerry from HR” in the staff profiles of a particular group – and that started me thinking. That’s it! Dogs would be great as...
According to experts, “the human race has peaked and could soon start moving backwards in terms of height, lifespan and physical performance”. Here’s the hard evidence: the average height of NFL football players in the US...
Racqueteering Inquisitive interviewer Shorten Humourless chats to innovative inventor Simon Sideways about his latest research projects. SH: So, Simon, you’re known as the clever clogs of lateral thinking and...
Auntie Scarlett is quite fussy about some things she buys and couldn’t care less about others. This sometimes creates a kind of anarchy in the typical retail shop. Her obsessiveness may cause her to make a huge effort to...
FOOD & DRINK We all love adding extra ingredients to what we eat, drink, use or make until it is “just right” like Goldilocks’ porridge. Adding milk and sugar to coffee? Fine, whatever tickles your taste buds. How about...
“On the one hand we remark the bold carriage and mental vigour of a man attired in a new suit of clothes; on the other hand we note the melancholy features of him who is conscious of a posterior patch, or the haunted face of...
We were enjoying our treat of scones with jam and cream at the nursery cafe. Just to paint the picture accurately, this was a plant nursery, not a child nursery or an artificial intelligence startup nursery. So there we were...
Everyone has some sort of general perspective on the world, be it gloom, doom and kaboom or sugar and spice and all things nice. It all depends on who you ask. So I trolled around for an interesting bunch of people and I...
