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...
Category - Food
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...
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...
A Shorten Humorless lunchtime interview with Mr Cryptic, a well known business tycoon famous for his economical use of food, money and words. SH: Welcome Mr Cryptic. I’d like to ask you a few questions about how you...
Alfredo, the Formula 1 racecar driver, realised he needed help. He had lost his will to win, his need for speed and his F1 car keys had gone missing. Each morning when he woke up, he didn’t know if he would feel as fiery as...
Recently my colleague John “Jokie” Jokeson came over to brainstorm ideas for a short comedy film he is hoping to produce. It went like this: Shorten Humourless (SH): Hi Jokie, what’s new? JJ: Good to see you...
Recipe – Chemise Blanche et Sweaté Ingredients: 1 ripe white shirt. Ripeness is indicated by a slight yellowing at the top of the garment known as the “collare” area as well as the unmentionable...
“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance.…. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference”. Herbert N. Casson...
Come with me on my personal tour of cardboard, and together we will unlock a new world of drama, impersonation and flavour benchmarks. My curiosity about cardboard began recently when I read a movie review, which gave a...