Drawing Breath

Vicious cereal box eats cat:

That’s what’s happening, honest.

Any men reading should check this out. Be patient, it’s not what you might first think.

Thanks to Stefan for the link.

The British attitude to America’s less than positive reaction to the London bombings is delivered very nicely by Armando Iannucci in today’s Telegraph.

Via Tim Worstall.

Does anyone else think it’s odd that the cows on the Anchor Spreadable TV advert are voiced by men (specifically Stephen Fry and Tony Robinson)? Cows, voiced by men. Think about it for a moment.

Warning printed on a packet of Sainsbury’s almonds:

Alergy advice Contains nuts

Who’d have thought it?

• Sung to the tune of Monty Python’s “Never be rude to an Arab”.

MediaWatchWatch today reports on an attempt to silence a village web site for their somewhat irreverent reporting of Pope John Paul II’s recent demise, and for publishing a page of (dun dun durr) Pope Jokes (the very idea). The webmaster [sic] of [...]

Russ just sent me a link to an excellent bit of Flash animation. The compression on the audio makes it hard to catch the words, but the animation is just brilliant.

Everyone’s favourite search engine, Google, is available in a multitude of languages, which can be set using the preferences page. However, one of the languages that doesn’t appear in the drop-down language list is Elmer Fudd.

I wonder if Jonathon Ross uses that page when he Googles?

Via O’Grady’s PowerPage.

Channel 4 continued their Banned Season with a program about adverts that have been banned or withdrawn from UK television. Some of these adverts were (naturally) absolute rubbish, others works of genius.

In fairness to the censors, one of my favourites, the Wrigleys “Dog Breath” ad, was withdrawn only after a large number of complaints from [...]