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Shrinking Violets

21 March, 2006
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As published in today’s The Independentby Oliver Duff Film of artist’s mass nude photo shoot being sold in pubs When 1,700 volunteers shed their clothes on a bright but cold Tyneside morning last July, they thought they were chancing nothing more than an unpleasant chill…Close-up surveillance camera images of some of the naked participants have been offered for sale to drinkers in Tyneside pubs.” Volunteer models included zookeepers, postmen, midwives and pensioners. Amabel Craig, 27, from Gateshead, who took part in the shoot, said she found it “very strange” that “cheeky” police staff might abuse their position. “I can’t see what they’ll get out of it,” she said. What is this world coming to, when hundreds of naked people can’t bare it all in public and not have to relinquish their rights to privacy? The humanity. Say, “cheese.”

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Now THAT’S funny

1 March, 2006
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Sometimes the letters to the editor are funnier than the funnies. Here’s a guy who wrote in to the Lowell Sun complaining about a comedy bit. A comedy bit? Now THAT’S funny! As a big fan of “Whose Line is it Anyway,” these guys bring humor to television and stage in the tradition of the many great variety shows we all grew up with. And laughed with. Now, if Sonny and Cher or Flip Wilson only had a few segments on crime scene investigations or stranded wannabe millionaires, it would have …. been not funny. No humor found in comedians’ pain The Lowell Sun At the end of what had been a funny evening of improvisational comedy at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium this weekend, things turned sadistic. Comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood walked blindfolded and barefoot on a stage covered with live mousetraps, and ended up throwing them at each other. The traps and the pain were real; the packed house laughed like it was the funniest thing they ever saw. I walked out, but I want to know what it says about our fellow citizens that they thought two people inflicting pain on each other in that manner Continue reading →

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The original Barney

25 February, 2006
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Nip-it-in-the-bud! Just heard of the passing of actor, Don Knotts, 81. He died of natural causes last night in hospital in Beverly Hills. Deputy Fife was one of the greatest television characters of all time. The genius that was Don Knotts never went for the dark, the blue, or questionable in comedy. RIP, Barney.

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Curling Sweeps

25 February, 2006
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Five hundred years later, Olympic curling posts big viewer gains among U.S. viewers. Who would have expected this? MSNBC is reporting that their sister station, CNBC, has posted unexpected increases of over 30% in broadcasts of the sport of … curling! From what I can gather, the game is credited to Scotland dating back to 1511 where the game was played on frozen marshes using “channel stones” that had been worn smooth by the action of water. Archaeological evidence of a curling stone (the famous Stirling Stone) inscribed with the date 1511 turned up, along with another bearing the date 1551, when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland. Five hundred years in the making and curling seems to be piquing interest. This could either trigger another cavalcade of reality TV shows on the fine art of the broom or it could be a statement as to how poorly the rest of the Olympic events are faring.

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Martha Trumped

23 February, 2006
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You’re fired…no, you don’t fit in…no, you’re fired…no, you don’t fit in…you’re – “What moron would think you’re going to fire the guy with the No. 1 show on television?” That, from ‘The Donald’ to Newsweek on Martha Stewart’s cold platter of cheese. It was obvious that Trump was cheesing-it for the press throughout the Titanic season of two apprentices, no waiting. “What I didn’t like is that I defended Martha many, many times and I never got a note. I never got a phone call saying, ‘Donald, thank you very much,’” Trump said on CNBC’s Donny Deutch program. Et tu Martha? Stewart actually believed that her job was to be the heir apparant of the Apprentice franchise, with Trump taking a walk after some introductory seasons. Hand written note to Martha, “You just didn’t fit in.”

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