The internet and common daily language has added yet another word to official language it seems. A word that harnesses and reflects the enthusiasm and rampant joy that is learning about a dictionary adding new words that everybody tends to use anyway. A word that one declares in such a way that it can rarely [...]
I’ve procrastinated a long time on this one, I admit. I’ve been rather pre-occupied with other things and random thoughts. Some of you, I know, have been waiting patiently; others have been waiting impatiently; and, some couldn’t really care less. The latter will probably find this most appealing because I’m not quite sure how to [...]
Guise Dugal: Kyah! (Drops from the ceiling dressed in black hoodie, pants and black towel wrapped around neck)
Dugal Dugal: Holy cr…
Guise: Hi?
Dugal: Dude, what the hell?! Where’d you come from, and what the hell is up with you voice?
Guise: Ah…you noticed my manly, gravelly growl?
Dugal: It sounds like strep…
Guise: No, I’m…BatRogue! I talk like this [...]
Rich Hall pointed out on television this one time how, despite his vast wealth, you never really see Bill Gates smile. See, billionaires who are happy and jovial are nearly always publicity hungry and constantly one with the crowd, Bill Gates is a grumpy sod because of a secret. Deep inside he’s had either childhood [...]
In August 2006, I referred to a man called William Lyttle, who had been dubbed “The Mole Man” for his, some would say ‘eccentric’ behaviour. If you didn’t see it, it’s here.
Mr Lyttle, at the age of 75, was ordered by the local council to leave his £1m Victorian property, originally two properties that he [...]
As I’ve previously stated, I loved the Dreadnoks when I was younger, and still hold a soft spot for them to this day.
Though the cartoon version of the ‘noks portrayed them as brainless, incompetent goons who were more like childish bullies than a deadly gang, the comic portrayed them in a different light. All [...]
There’s an old email forward that tells the story of confectionary love, it reads:
Mr Cadbury and Ms Rowntree went off for the weekend.
It was After Eight. She was from Quality Street. He was a Fishermans Friend.
On the way they stopped at a Yorkie Bar. He had a Rum and Butter. She had a Wine Gum. [...]
Being born in 1981, I grew up in what I’d consider one of the Golden Ages for children’s toys. As a child there was always a new fad to get in to and a new idea just emerging to take over from that one. Regrettably, there were two things standing in my way from fully [...]
One of my favourite tropes in horror and thriller productions - be it in a
film, television show or even video game - is the use of Creepy Little Children.
Granted, this has at times been overdone, especially where companies try to
reproduce the success of a story in either a shoddily made sequel or rival
product, however amongst [...]
The first book of the Discworld series that I ever read, my favourite of the series, the book I re-read at least once a year and the book I often either recommend or give as a present to peple, was and is Hogfather.
Hogfather as a book is as chock full of humour, cynicism and surreality [...]
Guild Wars - Guise Dugal - 2005-08-29 -
Guise and party in Crystal Desert (Salt Flats)
Originally uploaded by Guise Dugal.
It might be the recent Ozy and Millie-fest, but when I saw this in Guild Wars I was struck with the words of Shelley.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two [...]
I’m going to try not to spoil the movie too much but really, if you haven’t read the book, seen either of the movies or guessed the story by the adverts, then really I don’t have much time to spoonfeed you. In fact, if you haven’t read the book get your arse down to Barnes [...]
Last night I finished Jennifer Government. The book is seriously one of the most excellent pieces I have read in some time, it is both intelligent and funny and has a great pace throughout. It manages to be sci-fi without any of the unattractive elements that usually turn people away, it is more a satire [...]
Jennifer Government by Max Barry is a beautiful piece of work, filled with a mix of humour that is either direct or subtle, a story line that carries a strange feeling of believability to it and a writing style that is refreshingly comfortable to read. I started reading it last night and found that I [...]
A memorable and oft-quoted line in the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and given the two sides of inspiration for this a line that has the slightest potential for being a nifty innuendo.
I was looking at some comments on someone elses LiveJournal and spotted a load of neat icons (notably to some degree [...]
told me about this piece on the news, and I was skeptical at first.
Kristina : Also did you know
Me : Coulda guessed
Kristina : That some schools are teaching kids elvish
Kristina : I saw it on the news
Me : You are kidding?
Kristina : LoTR mania
Kristina : Nope
Kristina : I’m serious
Kristina : Like an after-school activity
Kristina : [...]