Category: Humour
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You want ‘L’? I’ll give you ‘L’! We’re all going to have an ‘L’ of a time! Because ‘L’ is the letter of the day…
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Day 11 of the A-Z challenge and we’re up to ‘K’. I like ‘K’, it’s not a letter that likes to show off too much.…
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It’s day 10 of the A-Z challenge, which brings us up to the letter ‘J’, I had to resist my natural urges to go with…
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Day 9 of the A-Z Challenge, and this is where I come into my own. Sorry, this is where ‘I’ comes into its own. ‘I’…
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Right, this is the point when it all gets a bit confusing with the whole A-Z Challenge malarkey. Yesterday, being a Sunday, was an officially…
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Where did all the chocolate go? I had so much last week But now I cannot find it No matter where I seek? It seems…
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Can it already be the 7th April? Why, that must mean that we’re up to ‘G’ in my mawkish retrospective of the cartoons of my…
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Well if it isn’t Friday and, moreover the 6th of April. But who really gives an ‘F’? Well I do as a matter of fact,…
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It’s the fifth day of April and, if all is going according to plan, then I should be on to ‘E’ in my quest to…
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It’s the fourth day of April and that can only mean that in my quest to alphabetise the cartoon characters of my youth, we must…
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It’s the third day of the A-Z Blogging Challenge 2018, and, having dispatched the letters ‘A’ and ‘B’ with ease, let us see what I…
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It’s Day 2 of the month of April and by sheer coincidence, it’s also Day 2 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge. If I’m not mistaken…
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It’s Easter Sunday, a day of not inconsiderable religious significance for some people, which I absolutely respect, though I am not especially of a religious…
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“It’s for charity though,” said Kevin. “I couldn’t care less,” said Toby, “I’m not bloody doing it.” “C’mon mate, don’t be such a curmudgeon.” said…
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“He’s reading Balzac, knocking back Prozac, it’s a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland” The first I’d ever heard of Balzac was in…
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Hannibal Lecter is arguably one of the most iconic screen characters of all time. There have been multiple incarnations of Thomas Harris’ man-eating serial killer…
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It might seem disrespectful To compare poems that we wrote But in a poetry competition Mine would get my vote I’m not saying yours is…
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Today represents a tragedy for fact-seekers everywhere, as this will be the last ‘James Explains’ for a while. I might bring it back in a…
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The clocks went forward yesterday. The downside of this is that we all have to get up an hour earlier. The upside is that it…
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Magic Penguin, Fat Giraffe, Mystic Mouse, Stupid Donkey, Ed The Ostrich, Happy Rhino, Anxious Bull, Mardy Puffin, Fast Gibbon, Mistaken Moose, and Wise Owl were…
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There was a narrow window between the earliest time that Stan could legitimately leave work and the point at which navigating the evening traffic became…
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Today I’m taking the unusual step of honouring (through the medium of doodle) a literary figure whose works I am actually familiar with. Because even…
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I saw 1994’s The Specialist in the cinema when it came out. Until recently that was the only time I’d ever seen it, so I…
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Music has charms to soothe the savage beast But it can annoy the neighbours at four in the morning And even at other times of…
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Hang on to your hats, it’s explaining time! Although if I’m brutally honest, I can’t begin to explain why I opened with that particular line.…
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As my output on this blog is currently quite prolific, I thought I might partake in another blogging challenge. Specifically the A-Z blogging challenge, in…
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Magic Penguin and Mardy Puffin were enjoying a drink in the Slipper and Pager, an establishment neither was known to frequent. “It’s alright in here,”…
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It was Saturday and therefore the day that James usually liked to post a short story on his blog. But this particular Saturday had been…
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It’s Friday, so hang up your scruples and enjoy a few vices. But don’t do anything too Machiavellian. Unless you want to of course. I…
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It’s Thursday, which in recent months has been the day I have posted an unnecessary review of a film I watched when I was younger.…
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