Robert Hampton

“sexual octopus”

I’m going to use the tape-to-tape dubbing facility on my stereo system to copy some C64 games for my friends.

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Hm, Talk Like a Pirate Day isn’t as much fun as the hype would have you believe.

Four men died while taking part in the Great North Run:-

A Northumbria Police spokesman said: “I can confirm four male participants in the race have died, which is more than the usual one or two – but every year more people are taking part.”

“The usual one or two”?! What kind of race are they running up there?

Truckers are staging a motorway protest over fuel prices. Apparently the lorry drivers are going to drive too slowly and hog the middle lane – so business as usual then.

Overheard in Aigburth station ticket office today:-

WOMAN: We need a return to, er, Lime Street, is it?
TICKET OFFICE MAN: Trains from here don’t go to Lime Street, they go to Liverpool Central.
WOMAN: Liverpool Central? Is that in Central Liverpool?

I bet those Everton supporters are glad they missed their plane now.

Anyone who thinks the British are getting stupider can back up their argument now with this report from the Liverpool Echo: Mother keeps boy off school because a fortune teller told her to.

Went to Southport.

Everything closed.

Very wet.

Came home again.

It looks like Google have finally launched their Blog Search, as exclusively revealed* on this very blog back in May 2003.

And I’m already listed! Woo!

* “Exclusively revealed”, in this context, means “Vaguely hinted at as an aside to a navel-gazing post moaning about my lack of traffic”.

I’ve been off work for three days, and I’m bored. With hindsight I should have booked my time off during the summer, when there might actually have been something to do.

I might go to Southport tomorrow. Or not.

Wankers Unite! After announcing plans to cause chaos on the roads, the protesters now urge people not to panic!

As Paul Merton once said on HIGNFY: “The thing to do is go to the shop and buy as much as you can. That way there’ll be enough for everyone.”

He was talking about Branston Pickle though, not petrol.

I’ve just found on the internet a high-quality MP3 of the theme from Catchphrase. I’m alarmed at how happy this has made me.

Being off work is fun. I decided to go to the gym early so I’d have the rest of the day free, and headed into town at about 10.30am. I was the only passenger under 65 on the train. Then I got to the gym and, to my surprise, found even more wrinkly old people there. I suppose they have to do something until Countdown comes back, but, well… pensioner sweat. Ugh.

We’re not good enough to win a cricket match on our own, so let’s hope it rains.

Jerry Springer The Opera is out on DVD on 14th November!

I missed this article in the Daily Post yesterday: Engineer’s Baby Nearing Delivery. It’s all about the Liverpool South Parkway project, a multi-million pound scheme to improve connections to Liverpool Airport and between Northern Line and cross country services.

It’s easily the most exciting development on Liverpool’s rail network since the Merseyrail underground opened in 1978 — and it’s all happening two stops down the line from where I live!