2009-11-30
Learning To Grow Hashish At College
by ianrthorpe
It had to happen, there have been courses available in subjects such as Klingon studies, the Jedi Philosophy and...
2009-11-29
Cockermouth and Penistone - Not A Scary Willy Story
by fatsally
Today, for the first time ever, the towns of Cockermouth in Cumbria and Penistone in Yorkshire are united, being mentioned in the same article by....
Exclusive: Pebbles Wants To Move
by fatsally
2009-11-28
You will all have had your memories refreshed regarding SuBo of Britain's got an X Factor, as her debut album has gone straight to number one with the highest...
Golf and Marriage are Dangerous Games.
by ianrthorpe
2009-11-28
Golf and marriage may seem to have little in common but they are in fact both very dangerous games. In golf you can easily lose your ball and in marriage a man may easily lose his balls both...
2009-11-27
A Job For The Boys: Lap Dance Researcher.
by ianrthorpe
The University of Leeds School of Social Science is advertising for a researcher to undertake research into "The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the
2009-11-26
Harrassed In The Hindu Kush
by ianrthorpe
Barack Obama is rehearsing the speech in which he will tell the American due to the brilliant success of his stategy he can now announce
2009-11-25
If Ali G met Belle De Jour
ianrthorpe
In her first press interview since outing herself as the real Belle De Jour, research scientist Dr. Brooke Magnati who used earnings from prostitution to fund her...
2009-11-25
The Strictly General X Factor Celebrity Election
by fatsally
In the previous post Ian wonders how much lower reality television can sink, likening it to the Roman circus, with the public lapping up the ritual humiliation invoked by progs such as I'm a desperate-attention-seeking-has-been-who's-bit-hard-up-for-cash-and-daytime-chat-show-offers, LOOK AT ME...
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2009-11-24
Bread And Circuses TV (more reality from the celebrity jungle)
by Ian R Thorpe
Boggart Blog has said it before (we probably haven’t but who remembers every word we have ever published?) but the march of civilisation has definitely gone into reverse. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of low budget “reality” television or Bread and Circuses TV as it is...
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2009-11-24
Quick Thinking Criminal or Slow Witted Plod?
by fatsally
We normally bring you stories of really stupid criminals, like the man who drove the getaway car sporting his own personalised registration plate, or the chap who ...
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2009-11-23
Afghanistan, Financial Crisis, Climate Change - Forget it, Katie Price has quit the jungle.
by ianrthorpe
Big news today is nothing to do with any of the major crises happening around the world, not with a government in meltdowm or the most frightening story, the one about new EU Prez. Van Rumpy Pumpy pledging to steer the union towards a ...
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Rompuy - Pumpy Rules EU
The newly reformed, even less democratic than before European Union has its first President. But will Herman Van Rompuy achieve anything or will his name just inspire rumpy-pumy jokes?
2009-11-21
Monty Python and the Brussels Sprouts
by ianrthorpe
Controversy rages over the choice of Herman Van Rompuy (pronounched rumpy to rhyme with pumpy) to the EU presidency. Stung by British Rumpy Pumpy jokes the French-language Belgian regional newspaper La Capitale printed a list of our... READ ALL Monty Python And The Brussels Sprouts
We wish you a merry Christmas (but not in Dundee)
by ianrthorpe2009-11-21
Christmas will not be Christmas in Dundee this year. All references to the religious holiday have been dropped from the switching-on ceremony for the city’s festive lights. Instead of the traditional Christmas Lights switch-on, residents will be ... READ ALL We Wish You A Merry Christmas - But Not In Dundee
2009-11-20
A Fit And Proper Person
by ianrthorpe
The dark forces of football oligarchy are ganging up on little Chester City but it looks like one rule for the minnows, another for the big clubs. The FA have ordered Stephen Vaughan, Chester’s owner and main financial prop to sell his shareholding because he is not a “fit and proper person” to be...READ ALL A Fit And Proper Person
2009-11-19
Playing Politics With The Dear Old Queen
by ianrthorpe
The Queen’s Speech by convention, wile setting out the government’s programme is not about party politics nor is it supposed to be about a failing government shafting the opposition that will soon replace them by making it impossible for the new lot to...READ ALL Playing Politics With The Dear Old Queen
2009-11-17
The Real Queen's Speech Redux
by ianrthorpe
It is well known that every year HM The Queen writes her own speech for the state opening of parliament and that every year The Government goes to great lengths to ensure the draft is lost and Queenie has to read the speech prepared for her by the Prime Minister.
Last year one of Boggart Blog's unseen reporters managed to obtain...READ ALL The Real Queen's Speech Redux
2009-11-17
A Pretty Maid Must Show 40% To Get Laid.
by ianrthorpe
I'm an unlikely Daily Mail reader but this link, sent to me by a mate who knows how much Boggart Blog loves pointless research stories, pricked my curiosity. It will take you to an item that claims a "scientific" study has revealed that a woman should show 40% of her flesh if...READ ALL A Pretty Maid Must Show 40% To Get Laid.
2009-11-16
President Rimmer Obama
by ianrthorpe
Looking around American blogs today I see there is a kerfuffle about President O's deep bow to the Emperor Of Japan. Typically the Politically Correct Thought Police...
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2009-11-15
Octomum
by ianrthorpe
To avoid misunderstanding the title is not a new Bond film or a character from tonight's (eagerly anticipated) Doctor Who adventure...
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2009-11-14
Things Just Keep Getting Better!
by fatsally
The other day Boggartblog brought you the news that we're just not drinking enough, tipping the unfinished bottle down the sink wastes an incredible amount of the old Mucho Collapso and so we should all ensure that we drink every last drop, a practice Boggartblog has advocated for years. But things just keep getting better...
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2009-11-13
Swine Flu - No worries, you'll just gain a few pounds
by ianrthorpe
The government of control freaks are keeping up their fear and panic campaign to turns us all into gibbering wrecks who cower in fear of swine flu. Boggart Blog has always said this scare is simply about making...
2009-11-12
Marking Computer Says No AsTop Writers Fail Their English A Level.
by Ian R Thorpe
Boggart Blog makes it our business to invigilate the progressive education lobby for sings of loonyness. An we have to be honest, they keep us busy.
One of the most crackpot ideas to come out of the academic clique that supervises the dumbing down of standard was the recruitment of a marking computer to assess A level papers.
On being given samples of writing by great authors including... READ ALL Marking Computer Says No
2009-11-11
Simon Cowell Secret Revealed
by Ian R Thorpe
Boggart Blog has not been following The X Factor this time round because, well let’s be honest, we have done all the cheap jokes in the past. Also the biggest X Factor joke this year is...READ ALL Simon Cowell Secret Revealed
2009-11-11
Bottoms Up!
by fatsally
Good news for drinkers - the Waste and Resource Action Programme has estimated that Britons are pouring £470 million worth of wine down the plughole...READ ALL Bottoms Up
2009-11-10
Going Batty For A BJ
?Very Short Post but funny enough to be worth a visit
2009-11-09
Evolutionary Science Classes In Junior School Might Be Counter Productive.
A new plan to reform the primary curriculum proposes teaching evolutionary science to kids aged 4 to 11. This article shows how such an approach might be counter productive.
2009-11-08
Bloggers Who Stare At Goats
by ianrthorpe
You have all seen adverts for the new Hollywood film release Men Who Stare At Goats. Well no need to waste your money to find out what it is all about...
2009-11-08
Google Pledge Not To Be Creepy
by ianrthorpe
Speaking on American television Google CEO pledged that his company would not become a creepy gang of world domination freaks like Microsoft did some years ago.
Asked by the interviewer how from their dominant position on the internet Google could avoid this Schmidt adopted a really bad Russian accent and said...
2009-11-06
The Fag Drag - Will Banning Cigarettes Spawn A New Industry?
by Ian R Thorpe
Still detmined to be the killjoy government Labour are passing new anti smoking laws. But do they really think banning the display if cigarettes in shops will stop anybody from smoking?
2009-11-05
Kidman’s Alien Sex Fetish
by ianrthorpe
Statuesque blonde Australian actress and sex symbol (if you like that sort of thing) Nicole Kidman has confessed in a celebrity interview with GQ magazine that in one of her love affairs she had explored “strange fetish stuff.” Though Kidman
2009-11-05
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The New Guy Fawkes
by ianrthorpe
Where are Catesby and his co - conspirators when we need them? Where is our gunpowder plot this bonfire night? Not that I'd want the buggers to blow up The....
2009-11-04
Stimulating The Radio Active Rabbits
by Ian R Thorpe
An American friend sent me this list of some of her favourite items funded by money from the US Government's stimulus bill.
•$300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at...
2009-11-03
Stupid Criminal Of The Week Returns
by ianrthorpe
It is with great pleasure we announce the return of the Boggart Blog stupid criminal of the week award.
In the early days of Boggart Blog we would feature this occasional series whenever we encountered a news story about...READ ALL Stupid Criminal Of The Week Returns
2009-11-02
The eXtacy factor
by ianrthorpe
Well Professor Nutt certainly kicked things off with his claim that drugs like E, Cannabis and LSD are no more dangerous that alcohol and tobacco. While we agree... READ ALL The eXtacy factor
2009-10-29
E versus J & B
I know we say this quite frequently but where would this blog be without those whacky folks who feed us material by doing pointless research. The latest finding, announced by the appropriately named ... READ ALL E versus J & B
Tonguing Willie
by ianrthorpe
What a headline!!! Worth 3 exclamation marks. Well every now and them we Boggart Bloggers like to show up the Tabloid headline writers for the rank amateurs they really are.
So as this story is not going to concern hot celebrity head action what... READ ALl Tonguing Willie
2009-10-28
Old Chinese Proverb: Beware Jumped Up Dictators With Ill Thought Out Scheme
by fatsally
Lord Stern of Brentford, who is quite possibly a climate change czar, or at the very least a marquise, called yesterday for everyone in the world to cut out meat in an effort to... READ ALL Old Chinese Proverb: Beware Jumped Up Dictators With
2009-10-28
The King Is In His Altogether....
by fatsally
Anatole Kaletsky, writing in The Times today applauds the creation of an Institute for New Economic Thought, claiming that this is a direct result of ... READ ALL The King Is In His Altogether
Classy Comic Or Rampant Rabbit
There is no doubt Michal MacIntyre is one of the top stand up comedy acts around at the moment. He has a good personality, quickfire delivery and some ...
You Wanna Show A Liddle Respect Or You get A Visit From Mr. Baseball Bat
by fatsally
2009-10-26
This story came to light last week and it has troubled me, probably because as a teacher I have had parents say the same thing to me.
15 year old Daniel Walton was sent home from school because he refused to...
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2009-10-24
Trees For SPAM
by ianrthorpe
You may have been under the impression that goal of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December is to agree a binding treaty to fight global warming, I know I certainly was. We have been misled however. According to leaders of a militant
2009-10-23
ASDA Sat Nav Can't See The Wood For The Trees
by ianrthorpe
We love Stat Nav disaster stories at Boggart Blog so when we found a report of an ASDA delivery van driver showing a level of blind faith in science and technology that would ... READ ALL Asda Sat Nav
2009-10-22
Blue Blair’s New Nazi Best Buddies?
by Ian R Thorpe
To be perfectly honest I never held out any hopes that the Cameron led Conservatives would be much different to New Labour’s “progressive left” neo nazis. David Cameron, a slick, silver tongued, smooth face ex public schoolboy for whom spin mattered ... READ ALL Blue Blair's New Nazi Best Buddies
2009-10-22
Things Not To Do In The Delivery Suite: A Guide For Prospective Fathers
by fatsally
When I were nobbut a lass, there were many jokes, cartoons and comedy sketches involving birth.
In all these instances birth was depicted as something that took place behind closed doors whilst the husbands paced up and down in the corridor, awaitng the news ... READ ALL Things Not To Do In The Delivery Suite
2009-10-21
The First Aid Technique Formerly Know As Heimlich Manoeuvre
by ianrthorpe
It was a surprise to hear sometime in the past few days that we are no longer allowed to refer to that trick where when someone is choking on a fishbone, pretzel or.... READ ALLFirst Aid Technique Formerly Known As...
2009-10-21
Biscuitgate
by fatsally
As speculation grows once again regarding plans to oust Gordon from the leadership of the Labour Party and therefore the Prime Ministership of the UK you have to wonder where the loyalty of his...READ ALL Biscuitgate
2009-10-21
The First Aid Technique Formerly Know As Heimlich Manoeuvre
by ianrthorpe
It was a surprise to hear sometime in the past few days that we are no longer allowed to refer to that trick where when someone is choking on a fishbone, pretzel or...READ ALL First Aid Technique Formerly Known As Heimlich Manouevre
2009-10-20
Adipose Offsetting
by fatsally
Well, not only do we have several Olympic gold medalists, hold The Ashes and boast the current and elect Formula World Champions but also, according to The Sun, Britain is home to the world's fattest man...REAL ALL Adipose Offsetting.
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