"Starmer's no Churchill? Trump's no Roosevelt, either."
It's another snippets post, dear reader:
- "How cute, a second belly-button" news: A competition no man wants to enter, let alone win: a North Carolina man has publicly claimed he has the world’s smallest penis, and he’s challenging anyone on earth to prove him wrong. "Get the fuck outta here!"
- I wonder where they got that idea from? news: Purveyor of greasy pastry-based comestibles Greggs has announced it will introduce vending machines for its products in some locations in the UK. Have they never been to Amsterdam? FEBO, anyone?
- Fool's gold news: The Japanese city of Osaka has received a gift of gold bars worth 560 million yen (around £2,700,000) from an anonymous donor asking for its specific use: to fix its dilapidated water pipes. Copper not good enough?
- Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion news: RIP Bernard Lewis, founder of Chelsea Girl boutiques - that became River Island, still on our high streets today - who has died just after reaching his 100th birthday.
- What's a book, Mummy? news: Tomorrow is World Book Day, the celebration of which generally revolves around teeny children dressing as their "favourite story-book character". Many people are beginning to question whether this actually succeeds in its aim to get more kids reading books at all. Or are they just posing for photos for their parents' Instagram?
- Yum news: We're in the middle of British Pie Week - and my mission tomorrow is to go and buy one for our dinner! Steak & Kidney, Steak & Ale, Chicken & Ham? Choices, choices...
- And finally: Among another oddly-matched assortment of birthdays, including Sir Patrick Moore, Paula Prentiss, Dieter Meier of Yello, Patsy Kensit, Chris Rea, Emilio Estefan, Joan Greenwood, Dame Penny Mordaunt, Alan Sillitoe, Miriam Makeba, Pearl White, Kenny Dalglish, Bernard Haitink, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Bobby Womack, Kay Lenz, Chaz Bono, Mike Moran and - erm - Shakin'-bloody-Stevens, we find "Scopitone Queen" Miss Barbara McNair - and she's just what we need:
And the weather? Supposed to have been Spring-like and sunny, but all we got in London was greyness...
A man is bragging about having the world's smallest penis????? Does he come with a magnifying glass?
ReplyDeleteTweezers. Jx
DeleteThe penis? Anyway to become famous, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI always liked Barbara McNair when I was a kid. What an odd video. First there were the close-up crotch shots of the female dancers. Then the male dancer hanging as if he’d been hanged. Yikes.
Welcome to the weird world of Scopitones. No drugs involved there, then. Jx
DeleteShe's got a look of our window cleaner... Mike.
ReplyDeleteI for one would like to see a photograph of his nubbin.
He's no Liz Truss either.
Ms McNair was not exactly the most archetypally feminine of types, I agree.
DeleteYou'd need a zoom lens to see his nubbin, if it's a world-record-beater. Think carbuncles.
Liz Truss. Who the hell would want to be like her? Jx
That video was such an odd combination of glamour and clunky choreography.
ReplyDeleteGlamour, in a "thrift shop" sort of way. Scopitones always looked like they were done on very small budgets. Jx
DeleteI loved the video
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that was the first time those boys had been paid for lying on their backs with their knees in the air !
Somehow I doubt it. Jx
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