Kate Adie? It must be war!
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The editor of this impressive organ telephones me from a tattoo shop in Old Market in a state of some excitement. “Bazza,” he cries. “How do you
Funnies
Laughter is the best medicine and our regular round-up of press and media funnies aims to put a smile on the most downcast of faces.
From amusingly misspelt headlines to double-entendres of the first degree, we want to feature them on this page.
We used to round them up into collections of ‘Friday Funnies’ and these can still be viewed here, but we will now be publishing them individually both here and on the site homepage.
If you spot one, tell us about it at [email protected].
Unidentified Headline 95
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Why are there so many daft adverts on television at the moment? How come that bloody Eskimo in the television adverts can get a mortgage, a credit
Unidentified Headline 99
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 (We’d best not get into the argument about why British forces are fannying about in Macedonia, instead of protecting British subjects in Africa. My anger management course
Sorry George, but this is how it feels
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The following column may not be universally popular. If you have ginger hair, are a vegetarian or a Guardian reader, please turn the page now. In fact,
Unidentified Headline 98
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 For a start, 95 per cent of them don’t even have passports, so we can hardly describe them as knowledgable in the ways of the world. They
Lib Dem or Taliban? You decide
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The editor of this enormous organ telephones me in a state of some excitement from the bunker he has constructed behind his desk. “Brmmmph hmmm daaa nunghh!”
Unidentified Headline 97
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Student life for Willie boy will be a world away from that of your average spotty 19-year-old gimp. He won’t ever experience the seemingly bottomless pot of
Time Out for more headlines
We really must protect the guilty parties again… Our favourite (for outstanding ingenuity in the face of adversity): This regional evening paper couldn’t find its crossword for the day, so printed a six inch square photo of the puzzle’s compiler,
Unidentified Headline 100
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Mark my words: as the unfair and unnecessary blight of speed cameras spreads, we are heading for wholesale civil disobedience. And not only is the law now
Slavery? Us?
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The Reverend Jesse Jackson has decided that it’s time we apologised for slavery. Yes, us, the people of Bristol. Never mind that we were late into the
Barbie fever
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The smell of charcoal and petrol hangs over suburbia like a shroud. At Number 32, embers still glow amongst the smouldering remains of the garden shed. Next
Unidentified Headline 101
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Who’s in charge of talent-spotting for the Royal Family? I ask, because we appear to have let a cracking prospect escape. Mette Marit Tjessum Hoiby married into
How to avoid that speeding fine
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The editor of this impressive organ invites me out to lunch. Not a posh venue. A curry house in one of the murkier parts of town. Over
The future's bright
Page 4 of 6 Then there’s the way mobiles affect our social interaction. Just because friends are physically in the same place doesn’t mean they will actually talk to each other. You see groups of people walking or sitting together,
Traffic wardens are strange people
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 It appears that traffic wardens could soon become part of an auxiliary police force with the power to arrest offending motorists and pedestrians. The plan is apparently
Unidentified Headline 102
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 “Although a great admirer of Doris Lessing, I prefer the words of Margaret Atwood on relations between men and women. Men fear being laughed at by women.