Running away from dogs- the FUN way to fitness.
I am opposed to the hacking off of heads
Chat up line- guaranteed results!
How to say "Death to America!" in Arabic
How to say "Death to America!" in Farsi
I agree with Abu Hamza- up to a point
The modern UK: glue sniffers; drunken harpies
Which Spice Girl would you eat first?
Man, that's what I call real coffee
Woman says her best friends are cats
The British public are deeply stupid
Most of the world's problems still caused by Britain
When you sleep on the "cheap" bed, you will feel it is too bad
They're making great strides in China
I just want all the people and animals in the world to be happy
It's not my real ladder- it's my step-ladder
Capricorn- beware of falling masonry
If you don't clear off, I'll set the dogs on you
King of the blogs competition!
Iraq- it's all a matter of perspective
Vibrating ab-belt changed my life
This training day is as welcome as a cockroach in my salad
I'm sick of this country and its stupid taps
How would you like to get your hands on my dong?
Don't kill yourself- it's a beautiful world
My iPod is a glorified herd of cows
Murdering politicians is as American as apple pie
If Kerry got death threats from The Guardian, he'd probably soil himself
Professor Krugman, struck by a pie
This "election" in our revolted colonies is essentially a form of treason
Hitchens' double bluff irony impasse
TEACHING ENGLISH
Your child is an illiterate cabbage
Like a trouser, yet not a trouser
The British Council- at least it's not run by a drunk
Teaching English= non-academic sub-adult clowning
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
HOAXES
Letter to the Thames Valley Police
Open letter to Meatloaf
COLOMBIA
Shut your cake hole, you lunatic
Someone is getting mugged
NORTH KOREA
Billy Graham's gift to Comrade Kim Il Sung
The time I saw a woman get savaged by a bear
Kim Jong Il wouldn't do that- it's irrational
If London is still standing in 2020, I'll eat my hat
SPORTS JOURNALISM
People who like football should be put in boxes and bulldozed into the sea
Please hit our fans with clubs
I love Brazilian Ultimate Fighting
PALESTINE
The time I worked as a film censor in the Gaza Strip
Someone threw a bomb in our garden
It is high time Mr Arafat made up his mind if he is going to live or die
I MEAN IT (SERIOUS POSTS)
Was the US behind the coup in Venezuela?
Was the Venezuelan referendum fraudulent?
LITERATURE
Your severed foot would look good on my coffee table
MISC
Survey: Britons marginally less unpopular than the French
KILLER FACTS!
Killer Fact! (quality of life index)
Killer Fact! (British National Party)
Killer Fact! (Brazil, World Cup)
Killer Fact! (Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Engels)
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Killer Fact! (Suicide bombers)
Killer Fact! (Australian women)
Killer Fact! (Cocaine mark-ups)
Killer Fact! (Nobel Prizes by nationality)
Killer Fact! (King Shaka of the Zulus)
Killer Fact! (Churchill's mother)
Famous opening lines quiz
Where are these first lines from?
1. Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
2. Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York...
3. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
4. As I walked through the wilderness of this world...
5. It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6. A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of communism.
7. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
8. What's it going to be then, eh?
9. All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
10. Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
11. Of arms and the man I sing.
12. "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."
13. Who’s there?
14. In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition.
15. It was love at first sight.
16. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed
17. Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.
18. Who is John Galt?
19. Call me Ishmael.
20. No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no...
Answers at the bottom of the page.
Writers Quiz
What do the following people have in common?
by The JavaScript Source
More quizzes here
Answers to Opening Lines Quiz
- The Social Contract
- Richard III
- Tale of Two Cities
- The Pilgrim’s Progress
- 1984
- The Communist Manifesto
- Jane Eyre
- A Clockwork Orange
- Anna Karenina
- The Trial
- The Aeneid
- War and Peace
- Hamlet
- Candide
- Catch 22
- Ulysses
- The Godfather
- Atlas Shrugged
- Moby Dick
- No Limit, by 2 Unlimited. (In fact, before they start with the “No, no, no...” the guy says “Let me hear you say Yeah!” a couple of times, presumably in an attempt to heighten the fun. I am not sure if this is officially part of the song, however, or ad-libbing.)
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KILLER LINKS!
The Big Lychee
Hemlock's Diary
Gweilo Diaries
Flying Chair
The Shaky Kaiser
Simon World
Ordinary Gweilo
Fumier
Seelai
Discombobulated
Spirit Fingers
What am I doing here?
Peking Duck
The marmot (Korea)
...more soon
The Land of the Dingo:
TonyT (Virutally unintelligible to non-Australians)
The famous yobbo
Tim T (Achtung! Contains nudity)
Tim Blair
Currency Lad
Mud Island
Normblog
Boris Johnson MP
Lenin
Dead Men Left
Doctor Vee
Bint Magazine
Ang
Apostate Windbag
Squander2
Chris Lightfoot
Shot by both sides
Semi-skimmed
I Love Everything
In the Aquarium
Dismo
Albino-Neutrino
Revolted Colonies
Florida Cracker
Vice Squad
People's Republic of Seabrook
Alicublog
Oregon Commentator
...more soon.
Know their onions:
MaxSpeak
Brad Delong
LINKING POLICY: If you link to me I will link back, even if your blog is complete tripe.
If you gave me a link and I still haven't linked back, why not send an email to bitch at me? Emails should be headed "It's just so unfair".
EMAIL: harryhutton01 (at) yahoo (dot) com
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Different ways Shakespeare said, "You can't judge by appearances".
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