Green Wing highlights on Friday
Dr Secretan, as usual, provided the best laughs. Finding himself on community service with an anarchist skinhead who hates the middle classes, the Swiss Lothario adopts a ludicrous cocker-nee accent and swears unconvincingly in what he thinks is the proletarian vernacular. His cover is blown when a co-worker strolls by and addresses him as doctor. Later, we see him training youths in "Guyball" - a bizarre sport he learned as a child in the Alps. There's a great routine as he expresses exasperation at the youngsters' inability to grasp the rules. It reminded me very much of one of the funniest scenes in the League of Gentlemen, when one of the characters is enticed into a game of Go Johnny, Go-go-go-go.
04.23.06 @ 03:54 PM PDT [link]

Aliche pictured at a dummy run in Kingston earlier this month. Limo crossed the marathon tape well before her on Sunday.
04.23.06 @ 03:37 PM PDT [link]

Where were Aliche and Caz?
I turned on the Flora London Marathon, hoping to see my friends FBT and Caz crossing the finishing line (see blogs passim), but found that some bloke from Kenya had won instead. The girls were nowhere to be seen.

There was some mention of a "Limo". I don't know whether they'd given up and had hitched a lift with Peter Stringfellow. We'll no doubt find out more at www.bloggersnipple.co.uk
04.23.06 @ 03:33 PM PDT [link]

Phil's observations on life 013: there must be a point at which a 'gullible' switch gets turned on in our brains
I was thinking today about the point in our lives at which we become particularly gullible. You know how old folk are persuaded to have their roof redone because there's supposedly a slate missing or they maybe let someone through the door because they say they're from the gas board. We all think "poor old dear" and smugly thank our lucky stars that we're compos mentis enough not to make the same mistake. But one day, we'll probably be laughing on the other side of our faces when some nice young man comes to read the meter and we go off to the kitchen to make him a cup of tea.

I was just wondering whether the change happens overnight. Because having your roof done is really a yes or no answer, isn't it? Is it possible that one week you'd know that it was sensible to refuse, but the next week you'd be tempted to head straight for the cashpoint? I'll ponder this one some more.
04.23.06 @ 03:28 PM PDT [link]