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Anyone feel up to mustering some synthetic outrage?

Sunday, December 27, 2009
If so, here's the EUTube 'Christmas' video.



Take it away....

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Is nothing sacred?

Thursday, October 08, 2009
Those generally amiable - but in this case - villainous Canadians are pillaging our culture for pleasure and profit:


"The 3,450-person town of Barriere, B.C., has set its sights on building an exact replica of the storied British attraction – one that matches the real Stonehenge in size and painstaking orientation to the skies...The hopes in this case are not as much to track the heavenly orbs for religious rites but to attract tourists. Barriere depends on the local sawmill for its economic engine and has been hit by successive disasters over the past several years...They don't have a budget, a blueprint or a business model. They don't know where the funding will come from, although they're hopeful the provincial government and some tourism funds will pitch in. The latest debate is whether to go traditional, with concrete stones, or for a distinctly Canadian look: A Stonehenge built entirely of wood ravaged by pine beetles". 

A quick look at maps of the place suggests that it has rather more dramatic scenery than Salisbury Plain, so I can't help feeling that it just will not work.  Anyway, all faux outrage to one side, I can't really see that they will be doing much harm to the Wiltshire tourist trade, so good luck to them. 

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The (apparently) lost art of spelling

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Seen locally:



Lest anyone is entertaining the possibility of this being a Croydon dialect word, it is not:

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Don't believe it....

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
From Hansard:

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the value was of goods stolen from police stations in (a) North Yorkshire, (b) West Yorkshire, (c) South Yorkshire and (d) the East Riding of Yorkshire in each of the last three years. [208647]

Mr. McNulty [holding answer 5 June 2008]: The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.


What McNulty means is that Greenacre's Finest are far too embarrassed to admit to any such larceny.... Also, given that Evans is an MP for somewhere on the other side of the Pennines, might he have been seeking to make mock?

Not worth a new post, so I will add that I am appalled, disgusted, incandescent etc etc that the confectionery products known as biscuits are being referred to - in Hansard - by a linguistic fifth columnist as cookies. Yes they are. Philip Ian "Phil" Hope, for it is he, represents Corby in Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom, rather than somewhere nestling in the Appalachians. Grr. As they are soi disant 'fair trade' products, it can be assumed that they taste like militant cardboard, so he's welcome to them.

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