By PaulDM on Sunday, May 18, 2008Filed Under: Featured, Politics & Current Affairs
London is so lucky to have him as Mayor. The man really is a weapon. . . .
 
A soundbite from Boris Johnson has been voted the funniest British political quote of the last 50 years.
Asked by schoolchildren whether he would like to be Prime Minister, Johnson replied: “I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as being decapitated by a Frisbee or of finding Elvis.”
The nationwide poll of 2,587 people was commissioned by UKTV History to mark the launch of Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain.
The top 10 in full:
By PaulDM on Friday, April 25, 2008Filed Under: Travel
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For all you Londoners out there this story was on metro.co.uk yesterday. Seems that the Tube is the place to be if you want to find love. . . .
Forget ‘misery line’ – the Northern Line should be dubbed the tunnel of love.
In a result that will no doubt add to its overcrowding, the Tube line has been found to have the sexiest passengers.
More than a third of people thought its combination of ’spiky-haired indie kids’ and ‘hot city types’ gave it the edge over other lines.
By PaulDM on Wednesday, March 12, 2008Filed Under: Food, Gags
Yesterday the BBC broke a story about an accountant from Golders Green, London, who was claiming damages of £300K from the respected retail chain Marks and Spencer.Â
What possible reason could someone have to sue M&S?
Well, Mr Alexander Martin-Sklan, 55, was allegedly injured after slipping on a grape (yes, you read that correctly, a grape) in his local M&S car park. His claim was that a grape from the store was lodged in the void of his sandal and caused him to slip once outside. His slip caused him tendon damage, which meant that he couldn’t ski!
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