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For a change, some wise words on this blog
Needless to say they are not mine! I am forced into blatant thievery - again! - because today is the very height of the social season in which our little development of fourteen houses holds it annual garden party. Given all the 'non-global warming' we have I doubt it will take place in the garden but being true Brits we... Continue reading
Posted 27 minutes ago at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Keep the Cocklecarrots OUT!
Two hefty examples of lunacy today. First we had the Cocklecarrots at the so-called 'Supreme Court' (it isn't 'supreme' because the European Court over-rules it so they should be sued under the Trade Descriptions Act!) have allowed human rights laws to apply to cases of death and/or injury incurred during active service operations. Thus, any 'Tom', or his family, may... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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An 'A-', master Gove, well done!
Spikey little fella', that Michael Gove. He seems to be alone in running a department of state and actually achieving genuine change. Yes, it's slower than we would like but given that he's up against the massed ranks of the teachers' unions, his own civil servants and every 'edukashun' authority in the country, I think he has done splendidly. The... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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He's not guilty, he's just short-sighted
It's quite obvious that Mr. Saatchi, that Grand Patron of the Farts, ooops, sorry, I mean the Arts, is entirely innocent of any, er, application of force against the delicious Nigella, it was just a case of mistaken identity. It has been apparent for years that Mr. Saatchi's eyesight is deteriorating rapidly because only someone who is half blind could... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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So what do you think of it so far, Vlad?
And how does Ulster compare with Hawaii, Mr. President? Oh dear, if there is any chemistry going on between these two then it's about to explode! Meanwhile, 'Dim Dave' bimbles about, oozing old Etonian charm like an ineffectual maitre d' at some posh restaurant, all of which has zero effect on the various 'house guests' who are as ripe a... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Your Monday Funny: 17.6.13
I guess you all need cheering up as you splash and shiver your way through all this 'global warming' on your way to the salt mine. Actually, courtesy of Andra, this is rather an appropriate joke on the day after a Brit won the American Open: Two women were playing golf. One teed off and watched in horror as her... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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The Sunday Rumble: 16.6.13
Are our political rats worse than their political rats? When I write "our" I mean mainly British and American because I know more about them than other democracies, and by "their" I mean any of the sundry dictatorships that litter our global pavements like so many dog droppings. I suspect, gloomily, that there isn't too much in the way of... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Why be a Republican? So you can be spanked by a blonde with brains!
First of all, apologies for my absence due to slightly unexpected social events. The normal sub-standard service has now resumed! A few days ago MDA (My Darling Ann - Coulter), a stern disciplinarian, went in for a bit of lashing and her helpless, hapless target was the GOP of America, you remember, the dimwits who managed to lose against the... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Rank humbuggery, by God!
If anyone can think of a more sickening sight and sound than that of Westminster MPs whining and whingeing and shouting and shrieking because businesses arrange their affairs to avoid paying any more tax than they have to then kindly keep it to yourself because it must be too frightful to contemplate. The stench of humbuggery from Westminster is revolting... Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Roast Turkey
As I watch, rather helplessly, as Turkey slowly turns and cooks on the spit, I am reminded of a post I wrote just over two years ago entitled "The decline and fall of Arab civilisation?" - and please note the question mark at the end! I think I would alter that today to read 'The decline and fall of Islam'... Continue reading
Posted Jun 12, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Waiting for the second European shoe to hit the floor!
Is he cleverer than a really clever thing, that Mario Draghi, chairman of the European Central Bank (ECB), or is he just too clever by half? Alas, we shall not find out until after September when the German Constitutional Court, delaying its decision until after the German election, decides whether or not Draghi's "cunning plan" to buy up government bonds... Continue reading
Posted Jun 12, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Shakespeare on love
Slightly nerve-wracking evening yesterday when I delivered one of my Shakespeare talks to some of my fellow members at my theatre group. The problem was that there were one or three or more present who had probably forgotten more about Shakespeare than I actually know! But they were kind and treated me gently. My talk is entitled Shakespeare in Love:... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Chop Suey 'n' grits - too, too delicious!
So 'Comrade' Xi Jinping meets 'Brother' Obama, an example, perhaps, of the inscrutable facing the screwable! What, I sometimes wonder, have we done, both 'over here' and 'over there', to deserve the third-raters who run our nations. Well, I suppose the cruel answer is that we voted for them! Anyway, it would have been amusing to watch Obama stumble over... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Your Monday Funny: 10.6.13
No time for long intros, I'm off to London again for the day. Suffice only to say, "Hail to thee, Caesar", er, that's Sid Caesar, actually! How could I have forgotten the incomparable Sid, a man who nearly did me a physical injury when I literally fell of a sofa helpless with laughter as I watched him on TV. Watch... Continue reading
Posted Jun 10, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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The Sunday Rumble: 9.6.13
If you have nails, prepare to bite them now: For the last tw... Continue reading
Posted Jun 9, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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It's not what they listen to but what they do with it
I am perplexed - so what's new? - by the furore over security agencies collecting what amounts to several landfill sites of electronic data as a means of searching for some indications that X, Y or Z might, or might not, be contacting terrorist organisations. My instant re-action was that I would have been exceedingly cross if they were not... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Get fell in, you 'orrible lot!
News today of a government initiative - oh for God's sake, come out and stop hiding! I know what you mean but this one's fairly harmless. Apparently they are going to help ex-soldiers to become school teachers by cutting their training time from four years to only two. (Four years to train a teacher!!!!) Anyway, the fun potential in this... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Why is America so damned confusing?
I ask because I was on the point of adding yet another 'MD?' (My Darling whoever) to the increasingly long list of lovely political ladies who have graced these distinguished columns over the years. A vacancy has occurred because MDM (My Darling Michelle - Bachman that is) has retired hurt from the great game. However, today, via Drudge and Politico... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Let's hear it for Eddie, oops, sorry, Ellen Sturtz
This is him, I mean, her, he's she's the one on the left with the short back and sides, and her name is Ellen Sturtz and she is an activist with a homosexual organisation called 'GetEQUAL': Ellen is, apparently, a bit of a 'collar and tie job' and yesterday she had the temerity to heckle the FLOTUS (a particularly unfortunate... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Super-duper Sidmouth!
Of course, blazing sunshine makes almost anywhere look attractive but actually Sidmouth was a tiny delight. Not the least of its attractions is that it made me feel young, by which I mean that the 'Memsahib' and I plus our two friends, all in our 70s, lowered the average age in Sidmouth by about 10 years! The other instant attraction... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Off to sodding Sidmouth
Actually, I am assured that Sidmouth is far from 'sodding' and that it is, in fact, a seaside town of great charm and some antiquity. Anyway, armed with bucket and spade and pocket money for the ice creams and, I hope, the Punch and Judy man, that's where I'm off to for today. My goodness, what a whirlwind of exotic... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Another socialist tablet of stone crumbles to dust
No, no, not him, I only put his picture there to give you all fright! What I wished to comment upon was the fact that one Ed has obviously just snookered another Ed. By making Ed Balls break the news that the Labour party now believes that the age of universal benefits has ended, Ed Milliband has demonstrated that he's... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Your Monday Funny: 3.6.13
Before I give you my Andra's joke of the week let me tell you what a fantastic early morning I have enjoyed today. Glorious sunshine, not a cloud in the sky, a gentle breeze, the hedgerows burgeoning, the cow parsley as "high as an elephant's eye" and, just as I entered the village before mine, along the road came a... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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The Sunday Rumble: 2.6.13
'The Americans' is crap! And before DM gives me a hundred lines for bad grammar please note that 'The Americans' is a title for a new TV series based on the actual fact that the KGB inserted English-speaking agents into the USA where they adopted totally American lives, sometimes married and even had children. To all intents and purposes they... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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Thinking or grunting, which came first?
It's another of those coincidence things again. They keep happening to me. It must be a coincidence! Anyway, this one is the infinitely tricky subject of language, an attribute we take for granted because it appears to have been granted to us as of right, which has cropped up in two very different books I have just aquired. The first... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2013 at DUFF & NONSENSE!
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