Saturday, August 31, 2019

not if you die laughing...

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is laughter the best
medicine when you're feeling
a bit, er, funny?...

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Is Mr Potato Head a YouTuber?...
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Friday, August 30, 2019

rhythm and greens...

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my father often
gets angry, but never sees
red - he's colour blind...

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RSVP: not so much pleading for 'merci' as politely asking for it...
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So Nigel Farage wants to talk turkey (news item). How exactly
will that differ from his usual gobble-gobble-gobbledygook?...
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Thursday, August 29, 2019

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ice cream vans go from 0 - 30 at quite a lick...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, August 27)
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Brazil has long been known for its nuts. The most
recent of whom is undoubtedly controversial
president Jair Bolsonaro...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

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If Donald Tusk on his hammock (pictured) tells Boris
to sling his hook, I reckon Boris should just go over
there and unhook his sling. That'll teach him...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, August 26)
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Homeopathic ground-up Berlin Wall dust?
(news item). Must be a barrier cream, haha...
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The brilliant Headingley Ashes Test: one thing about Jack
Leach: he's guaranteed to give you a run for your money.
And sometimes, like at Headingley, one's enough!...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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It's vital "for MPs to stand firm behind our
PM," you write (MoS). Of course it is. How
else can they stab him in the back?...

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(Vincent Hefter, Mail on Sunday, August 25)
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Do the colour blind ever see red?...
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What colour do the colour blind see when they get angry?...
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Great Presidents leave a mark on the world. Others leave a stain.
On a dress, in Bill Clinton's case...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

thought for the day...

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is there a vegan alternative to
the milk of human kindness?...

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I hereby order sweet and sour pork and kung pao chicken.
Anything, in fact - as long as it's Chinese! (I ordered it
an hour ago - it should be hereby now, haha...)
(In response to Trump 'hereby ordering' American
companies to cut their ties to China.) T**t!
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Sunday, August 25, 2019

'on line banking'? - theft, more like...

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"Empty your pockets!"
screamed the two clothes pegs as they
held up my trousers...

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('Hung out to dry': 17 Syllables)
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Do climate change activists feel under the weather as they're
constantly having to worry about the weather they're under?...
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