Black Dog Blog

Today (yesterday, actually, but I'm posting late): two sisters want recognition as a couple, pixie dust makes a man's body part grow, a baby is horny, and some people are addicted to innuendo.

But before that, these. The following amusing links require Flash and sound.

Scrapbook Central (closing down sale? But how could they fail?!?)

I Love Horses (will likely traumatise you, whether or not you love horses)

Birmingham is ace! Ah, questionable American Anglophiles, my other one weakness.

Identity 'at risk' on Facebook

Baby white rhino makes his debut

"Dr [Brett] Mills [a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of East Anglia] says a less restrictive climate might make innuendo less necessary."

No, no, no. That's to miss the very point of Brits. Remember that humour thing? And how repressed we are? Latter is not exempt from former. In other words, we love laughing at how repressed we are. It's not a terribly serious battle of principles to sneak this stuff past the censors, or a symptom of hypocritical puritanism (for the latter, see USA). It's done for a laugh at every level. Double-entendres are one of the beauties of a mongrel language with so many homophones.

(Poor doggie had a stroke?!) (audio)

(Also, I think I deserve kudos for not making a joke like "what's a homophone then, is it one of these?")

(Then again, with a name like Lord Laidlaw, the jokes write themselves.)

Device 'spins silk like spiders'

When does kinky porn become illegal?

"There is no reason for this stuff. I can't see why people need to see it."–Liz Longhurst, in article

I agree. I also feel that way about Oasis, and I bet loads of murderers have listened to them, and it's still a REALLY STUPID reason to ban anything.

Students wear gorilla suits in order to promote gorillas art(?) to the general public

Why should people with children get special treatment? All together now, piercing East End accent: 'coz it's FAAAAAAHMLUY!

Superficial 'reviews' of GTA4 (vid), but the real prize is this related link showing

the development of the first Grand Theft Auto (vid). <3 that rap song, and yes, I can still recite along with it. "T, theft, determination, to steal what you can and run from the nation…"

Two sisters have lost a battle to have the same inheritance tax treatment as cohabiting couples.

You can bet this one irks me too.

'Pixie' dust helps finger grow (vid) (no, nothing to do with the LSD creator dying)

Four weeks? The nail looks too old…

Dan Dare 'inspired innovation' (vid)