He‘s done it again, except this time, John looks like a reject from a Gary Oldman movie. “How many grannies have you mugged today?” :>

I nipped out to Burger King for a late night munch, and for some reason the guy at the drive through didn’t ask me for any money. There was I, brandishing a twenty quid note, and not once did he utter the words “gimme the cash”, or some BK variant … When he handed me…

Cracking joke, courtesy of elwell. Tis a bit rude, so witness the first use of MT‘s ‘extended entry’ feature.

Looks like the world’s going to hell in a hot basket. No let-up in Europe heatwave Britain sweats on heat record Chaos caused by summer sun Nuclear power plant has to be cooled with water spray Europe blisters under heatwave [google aggregation] Is the planet plunging into the sun or something?

Fellow evolter Garrett snapped some photies for me of the humungous shopping trolley used at the start of the Jackass movie. It’s bloody huge! Reminds me of the clips from Apollo 16’s 3rd EVA to House Rock where the astronauts went from their lunar rover to a huge rock, and scale being hard to judge…

Richard Bloody Scarry! I loved his books! Little worms, owls, cats driving, working, living lives — and always with wee adventures to be engrossed in or providing puzzles to do! The book cover I’ve reproduced here — “Best Rainy Day Book Ever” — was one of the Scarry books I owned as a toddler, and…

When I was but a bairn, I went to a Catholic primary school only 18 miles away from Glasgow. This meant you were a Celtic supporter, or you didnae like fitba. I ended up settling on the latter. When I went to a “non-denominational” high school, which realistically meant CoS, although there was a fair…

fanbloodytastic — that is pretty much part of why I stopped buying tabloid newspapers two years ago. The Sun’s full page colour photos of people jumping from the burning World Trade Center in their September 12, 2001 edition sealed the deal for me. I fear I would get more newsworthy material from a dog’s pooperscooper…

Yes, I’m still alive, just busy at the keyboard or outside in the sunshine. What’s all this sunshine about anyway? This is Scotland, we only have a quota of 2 or 3 hours of sunshine a year, dependent upon how many bailiffs collect from poll tax dodgers … However, I have the sunburned arms and…