Shades of Grey

October 26, 2008

Another Wasgij

Filed under: Humour — Shades @ 7:05 pm

David received a new Wasgij (backwards jigsaw) from Grandma Pat. Here is a box lid:-

Normally, a Wasgij shows a mirror image view of what the people you can see can see, but in this case it is more like a two frame cartoon. Here is the jigsaw now complete:-

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October 23, 2008

Laugh out loud bits in movies

Filed under: Humour, Showbiz — Shades @ 7:40 pm

September 10, 2008

Perverting the course of justice

Filed under: Humour — Shades @ 6:32 pm

I haven’t finished reading this yet, but as a public service anonyblogger apparently highly read within scuffer police circles, this makes an excellent companion to PC Copperfield’s Wasting Police Time, being written from the perspective of the Boss rather than the worker.

I particularly chuckled at this letter sent by the Publisher to the Home Office Minister of State for Security, Counter-terrorism, Crime and Policing, the Right Hon. Tony McNumpty MP.

(Inspector Gadget’s Blog and the Monday Books (Publisher’s) blog)

September 9, 2008

Eight little notes

Filed under: Humour, Shady stuff, Showbiz — Shades @ 6:52 pm


A recent birthday present has been amusing the three of us- series three of the Muppet Show. We have seen various “Best of” compilations & I do remember it being on the telly but when you watch the original episodes there is much that is not familiar, particularly the guests. The particularly good routines are on the compilations of course, but tucked away on one of the programmes I found this little gem in amongst the rhinestones.

I reckon that Rowlf the dog is secretly my favourite character, although if pressed for a quick answer I would say Fozzy Bear or the Swedish Chef. The idea of eight little notes reminded me of seeing Richard Stilgoe a long time ago (relax, I got paid!) and he did a routine of songs based on the intervals, i.e. he started with C C#, played a bit of a ditty, then did C D, and so on for the full set of twelve. (He was very clever but too smug for his own good, I felt).

David liked this, but said that his favourite song is Animal, Swedish Chef and Beaker singing Danny Boy, which he found on Youtube.

I’ve never seen it before… and that is an omission that has made me always in the kitchen at parties. I perhaps need to watch the other series as they get released.

August 9, 2008

The Chuckle Brothers (all four of them)

Filed under: Humour, Showbiz — Shades @ 5:50 pm

at the City Varieties on the good old days. This is very funny!

(Hat tip City Varieties myspace page, that also features my wobbly column!)

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