Colonel Irrelevant

Archive for March, 2008

28 Mar

Guild of Milners and Wig Makers

Are on the lookout for makers of fake hats. A number of fake retro ‘Kiss Me Quick’ hats have been seen in various seaside resorts and they are looking for the culprits.
Flat Cap Man is also on the look out, as it appears that the perpetrators of this Hat related caper may have been [...]

27 Mar

Flat Cap Man …

has heard that Top Hat Boy has been arrested by the Guild of Milners and Wig Makers.
Steps are being taken to retrieve the situation ….

27 Mar

The Sikh of Tweak

Monty Panesar has been dubbed as ‘The Sikh of Tweak’ which somehow doesn’t do him justice. Monty is an unusual figure in English sport as he appears as a Sikh when playing cricket and not as a cricketer from the sub-Continent playing for England.
And the presence of Monty is a great story. He’s [...]

26 Mar

Entertaining Kids

I was entertaining a small kid yesterday. Her parents weren’t playing hide and seek, so I improvised as they washed pots. The ability of a 7 year old to suspend belief as you sit there, not hiding or seeking and completely immobile, but adopting alter egos and rabbiting away in bad foreign languages [...]

24 Mar

Oh Shut Up!

I love Test Match Special on the Beeb.
I am getting to the stage where I hate the Sky coverage.
I am old enough to remember Gower, Willis, Botham and Atherton captaining England and making some poor decisions. I can also remember their reactions to criticism.
Today Vaughan decided to bat on for another 40 minutes. [...]

23 Mar

Top Tip for Celebs

If indulging in a bit of extra marital activity it is always worth avoiding having pictures or videos taken as the resultant ‘art’ will ALWAYS get into the public domain.
So, don’t play away is the best advice. If you do, then don’t record it.
Then everyone is happy.
And can anyone explain on what occasions it [...]

23 Mar

Easter Egg Chasing

Wonderful! Watching a ref make a complete pigs ear of a game because he never gained control. It was like watching a Premiership Referee losing control only more dangerous as people started to police the game themselves.
Never mind.
The cry ‘Get Real Ref’ summed up the difference between football and rugby. One is [...]

22 Mar

Easter? Not according to Sky!

Easter Sunday has been around on the Calendar for about the last 1960 years or so.
But according to Soccer AM it’s now been renamed Grand Slam Sunday.
Every week seems to deliver some footballing spectacular according to Sky yet the games aren’t any better than they were before.
And the more they try to prop the game [...]

21 Mar

That’s Entertainment!

Flicking through the satellite channels and I found, not once but twice, a channel called ‘The Caravan Channel’.
The photography was 1950’s, the clothes were of a similar vintage, the presenter was an enthusiast who used words that are seldom heard today like ‘follderol’ or however you spell it.
It’s almost as much fun as watching American [...]

20 Mar

F1 Back to the Beeb

Hurrah!
No more adds, decent coverage and I’m a happy boy!
It’s what the licence fee is for.
Well done, Beeb.
Now to win back Test Cricket and we’ll all be happy …

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