Tweets on 2008-10-05

  • Wondering if a Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg leader is any way related to a Franz Schubert Lieder #
  • Misreading the calendar. Oct 14th != Day of the Tentacle #
  • Watching Secret Policeman’s Ball 08 on Channel 4 having failed to catch it at the cinema last night. #
  • Looked away from screen, heard voice, thought ooh, is Simon Hughes MP. Looked up. Was Eddie Izzard. Hmmm. #
  • Tim Minchin ftw!!! (is that how you use ftw??) #
  • @duncanborrowman teehee so when the IT Crowd come on, the TV screen will be delayed 5 mins, then 22 hours, then another hour. #
  • Wondering what to have for lunch. #
  • Lordy, save me from all these *terrible* Bells adverts. #

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Blood in the streets

Two people separately have mentioned to me that they have seen blood spatter on a building in town, close to the Victoria centre.

There’s a story about in in the Evening Post – it seems no-one knows where the blood came from.

POLICE are today continuing their enquiries into a pool of blood found on a city street.

An area around York House in Mansfield Road was cordoned off yesterday as forensic officers took samples.

Inspector Gordon Fenwick said he didn’t know where the blood had come from.

“Officers found the blood on the pavement at around 4am,” he said.

“We have no reports of anything happening, there is nothing on CCTV and we have contacted the hospitals as well but they don’t know anything about this either.

“We are just taking the evidence in case something comes to light later on.”

Mansfield Road was still passable to vehicles and the area was reopened yesterday.

Both people who saw it said they saw it from the bus. That must be quite a lot of blood.

Tweets on 2008-10-04

  • @ramtops 😦 I haven’t even tried to sleep yet. Body clock on GMT+8 or something ridiculous. #
  • @snapesbabe do you even take a hard line on homebrew and bottle-conditioned? #
  • Bah, missing Casualty to hear Geoffrey Perkins prog on R4 #
  • Highly conscious of the slippery sides of the Abyss hemming me in on all fronts. #
  • Intrigued by weather. It’s a full 10 degrees warmer outside than it was this time last night. Also windier and (Prince) rainier. #

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Tweets on 2008-10-03

  • Memo to self: don’t bulk buy catfood as it raises kitteh expectations too high. #
  • @kayray can send you Death’s Jest Book and Stranger House, but you have 20 other books to read inbetween 🙂 #
  • Digging through 10-year-old hard drive. Blast from past! #
  • @kayray Life on Mars totally passed me by 😦 #

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Secret Policeman’s Ball

Amnesty International’s famous comedy fundraising gig at the Albert Hall is tomorrow night.

This year, it’s also being cinecast to local cinemas, including the city centre cinema in the Cornerhouse Nottingham.

Wonder if I can drum up any friends to go and see that with me tomorrow. It might have been easier if I’d found about it before today. It dropped into my inbox through the advertising slot in the b3ta newsletter (NSFW!).

Bad news for Lembit

Over on failblog.

I have been reading failblog for too long this evening. There might well end up being a posting with a dozen linkies in later on.

Ah, what the hell, I’ve got your attention now, here are the linkies straight away.

How can I have missed all this failblog previously when it’s from the same stable as my old friends the lolcats?

Be polite.
Dairy Queen
Ad placement.
Shit FM
Adopt this dog
Emergency cock
Fairy fail (it’s the way the wand bounces that does it for me…)
Poster placement
Orange juice
BBQ
Sign fail

Tweets on 2008-10-02

  • Wrong number from an international dialling code 00-617. #
  • Have you seen what Rick Astley looks like 20 years after “Never gonna give you up” ? http://tinyurl.com/3sd4zn #
  • Voting for Rick: http://ema.mtv.co.uk/vote/ #
  • Asking iwantSandy.com to remind me about Christina and Britney in 21 years from now, to see if they hold up as well as Rick Astley #
  • @kayray cough 3 weeks? no, please no! I can’t afford that much Jaegermeister! #
  • @FakeJoeBiden don’t misunderestimate @FakeSarahPalin #
  • They’re reading Nottingham author Alan Sillitoe on the radio in a Yorkshire accent! Wrong! #
  • “It would appear that the sealing plugs were missing from the taper lock muff joint.” #

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I like this quote

Someone on Cix posted a passage from Garrison Keillor, who summed up the credit crises and the Republican responsibility in these words in the International Herald Tribune:

Confident men took leave of common sense and bet on the idea of perpetual profit in the real estate market and crashed. But it wasn’t their money. It was your money they were messing with. And that’s why we need government regulators. Gimlet-eyed men with steel-rim glasses and crepe-soled shoes who check the numbers and have the power to say, “This is a scam and a hustle and either you cease and desist or you spend a few years in a minimum-security federal facility playing backgammon.”

The Republican Party used to specialize in gimlet-eyed, steel-rim, crepe-soled common sense and then it was taken over by crooked preachers who demand Americans trust them because they’re packing a Bible and God sent them on a mission to enact lower taxes, less government. Except when things crash, and then government has to pick up the pieces.

Find the whole article here. And because of US syndication, if you google any of the key, well-honed phrases, you’ll find the same piece in a dozen US subregionals.

Tweets on 2008-10-01

  • @willhowells thought it was just me having breakfast at this time of day, nice to be joined by the Lord Chancellor. #
  • Can’t get out of building – belly dancers blocking the main stairway! #
  • Google is apparently banning me from saying “chum” in an advert. It’s a trademark, they say. #
  • Pretending not to know why @bookkake is funny #

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