Zombie

finally, governments are waking up to the threat of spiders with a new public information campaign

no, not right not right at all ☔

a fly with a tail?!? now that’s just wrong! *SWAT* and *SNATCH!*

I don’t see the crown is that a fly in your hair?

Marty McFly Bad Fly Now we see what she’s up to!

yeah, that’s right because “present” Clo is Bad Clo

“today”???

you must forgive my British humour in my previous reply, Ron - it often passes by other nationalities especially when it inverts literal meaning John Oliver has clearly been deeply influenced by “motormouth” Ben Elton’s style and political edge, and he’s made a good living from it decades later in another country where it seems fresh - so good luck to him

Ben Elton explains how to use a new (1980s ) microwave cooker…

poor little blue one… blame that nasty drink Does that mean we won’t be having boiled bear for Xmas?

“food colouring”?? they’re going to be boiled and eaten?

Hmm, “woke” is the term bandied around for much of this along with “virtue signalling” to show just how “on message” companies, wannabe “leaders” and the like are as part of “on-message” “group think” - motivated in large part, I suspect, by fear. Fear that if anyone even questions the “ideology” just for a moment then they will be “the enemy”, to be shunned, attacked, brought down. Coupled with the new Holy Commandment - Thou Shalt Cause No Offence To Anyone. It’s a toxic combination and doesn’t augur well for free speech. Or the whole point of education - which surely ought to be about how to think for yourself and make up your own mind. Of course, even Star Trek TOR had its lecturing storylines, although mostly it was about entertainment. But if the Prime Directive is to be not causing offence to anyone then the industry may end up entertaining no-one.

Silly Billy

hope they’re washed

except the fly’s been crossed off Santa’s list for being so naughty

🎶 Jingle bells Jingle SNATCH!!

penguin’s joined the circus!

then sleeping bear won’t be needing this *swipe*

*SNATCH!*

*checks for thieves and snatchers*

I’ve done some fossicking about this word As fans of Poldark will know, and I’m sure the lingering camera shots of Ross Poldark’s shirtless torso (Aiden Turner) scything the grass had nothing to do with it nor him coming out of the sea dripping wet, trousers / pants clinging lovingly to his tautly muscled thighs… , the main industry in 18th (and 19th) century Cornwall (southwest England) was copper and tin mining (since the Bronze Age) and many Cornish miners emigrated during this period to Australia to make their fortunes there, taking their language with them - including this Cornish dialect word FOSSICK, v. Cor.3 [fosik.] To obtain by asking, ' ferret out.' The above is an extract from vol. II of the 6 volume The English Dialect Dictionary, by Joseph Wright (pub from 1898). Joseph Wright was Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology (historical linguistics) at Oxford University and, interestingly, was a tutor of the student JRR Tolkien. Wright had a significant impact on Tolkien’s life and influenced his fascination with language, which is at the heart of LoTR and The Silmarillion.

Peter Cook when he got bored he would phone the local radio station pretending to be “Sven” from Swiss Cottage (a London ‘burb) who’d fled Norway because all they ever talked about was fish…

naughty fly!

not so fast Big Bird shiney’s miney