Quite a display for April Fool’s Day
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I managed to get through April Fool’s Day pretty much unscathed, unless you count a slightly demented cat trying to ankle tap me from under the bed as an April Fool’s Day prank. Avoiding the many and varied pranks that populated the internet wasn’t really
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Small victory for fat chicks
Radio presenter Rachel Smalley found herself in the poo after a not-so-timely comment or two this week but it was her attempt to weasel her way out of it that offended me. Smalley thought her mic was turned off after a news story about the effectiveness of an emergency contraceptive pill for women weighing more
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Bet that was uncomfortable
This is why it is important for headline writers to have dirty minds!
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Is it time for a new career?
So … have you had enough of your boring office job? Sick of endless meetings and sharing a smelly lunch room microwave oven with your feral workmates? Do you fancy a job with travel, white fluffy beasts and just a wee bit of counting involved? Then how about embarking on a new and exciting career
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Undercover awareness a bit pointless
You’ve probably seen the “makeup-free selfie” memes all over social media lately, the latest in a seemingly never-ending stream of near-pointless “awareness” memes. In case you didn’t know: the makeup-free selfies and earlier bra colour memes were meant to promote awareness of and bolster the fight against cancer. Riiiiight. The colour posts apparently help to
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Clean one-liners
Who’d have thunk it: I know some clean jokes! OK, so they aren’t particularly funny but it’s a hard road finding the perfect joke. Why is the ocean wet? Because the sea weed. »»»»«««« Why did the fly fly? Because the spider spied her. »»»»«««« What do you call a kungfu pig? Porkchop! »»»»«««« What
No wuckin’ furries
In the greatest scandal to rock children’s television since Big Bird started toking up and imagining a big hairy critter named Snuffy, a mum in Cardiff reckons her young daughter has picked up a naughty word (starts with F, ends in UCK; rhymes with duck) from Peppa Pig. To be honest, I initially thought she
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