There are more here. (Goca Trzan was the pop singer with the creepy fan.)

15/11/01 - Science magazines go, err, sexy? (via Screenshot)

"On the cover, the lithe nude female stares deeply into the eyes of the lithe nude male, her breast just covered by his hand...

And then there are the ads - Hugo Boss, Kaluha, Evian, Club Monaco, Absolut Citron, Kenzo, Skechers - with more sultry, beautiful people living the life.

This is, of course, a magazine about science."

The cartoon is based on quite a famous image, 'Skegness is SO Bracing' together with the Jolly Fisherman:

And has been parodied before.

15/11/01 - Very true:

"Aspiring bands take note. In a shocking revelation sure to literally shake the very foundations of the world of Rock n' Roll, it was revealed Wednesday that geographically monikered musical combos have a nearly 100% rate of poor to horrific aesthetic and artistic value. In layman's terms: Bands named after places all suck."

15/11/01 - I want, I want, I want The Simpsons Top Trumps:

14/11/01 - This guy is just a little bit creepy:

"Serbian pop singer Goca Trzan was amazed when she realized that only one seat was occupied at the main Belgrade concert hall - perhaps her greatest fan had bought all 4,000 tickets for the show

At first, she refused to come out to the stage, but her manager talked her into it, and Trzan sang for two hours, sometimes crying between the songs

In the midst of concert, she came to her fan, whose name was not revealed. He kissed her hand and asked her to marry him..."

12/11/01 - You tell it Roy, Home rule for Yorkshire.

11/11/01 - Number three in my occasional series, 'Place I Have Stayed'.

If you're ever in Key West I would definitely recommend Eden House.  Very friendly, cheap and close to the main drag:

Likewise, the Luna Sea Cocoa Beach (just past the Fawlty Towers motel).

11/11/01 - One million magazines in stock; I should get myself over to Tilleys.

11/11/01 - On the subject of Private Eye if anyone could let me have a copy of 'Lockerbie: The Flight From Justice' by Paul Foot, published by Private Eye, I would be very grateful.

11/11/01 - An interview with Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye:

"With a circulation holding steady at 188,000, it is broader in appeal and more populist than before; a progression which does not please everyone. Hislop says, 'I never stop hearing that Private Eye is not as good as it was. What cheers me up is that Paul Foot told me that people started saying that in 1963.'"

11/11/01 - A logical extension, Bullies Reunited:

"What people have said about Bullies Reunited...

"...What a fucking sound idea." (Dave McIntosh, aka Stabber)

"Those were the days" Gripper Stebson"

"...the range of issues and less defensive tone are wildly different from what American viewers get on network or cable news programs, which share a  myopic view and a tone that says, "They'd love us if only they understood us."

From the time the antiterror coalition was formed, the BBC has offered a stark view of its fragility, something the American media have just begun to focus on (a valuable "Nightline" segment addressed the issue with European journalists on Tuesday). And in the midst of covering anthrax, foreign- based programs have continued to report regularly from Jerusalem and the West Bank, offering a sense of how volatile the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become. For American television, with its relentless focus on a single issue, covering anthrax and the Middle East at the same time is the news equivalent of walking and chewing gum."

"The second one is "Lost in the pancake". This one was very strange and scary! The program starts with a guy called Staffan sitting in front of a huge pancake that is way to big for him to eat, suddenly these two big people enters from the sides (which are made from cardboard and are suppose to be Staffans parents) and a voice saying:

-Staffan, finish your food!

And then the pancake starts to swing and ends up, upside down where there are a landscape. Now, "Lost" is actually the main character here (a finger puppet), so know one is actually lost in the pancake, confusing? Well it’s nothing comparing what it was in real life!
...
Even though it was over 25 years ago the program was aired for the first time,  there are still many people who blame the program for all sorts of things, everything from their psychotic behaviour to difficulties to sleep."

"HOLLYWOOD is pushing forward the opening dates of violent war films after the American public said it wanted to watch blood and gore at the cinema, not the comedies experts had predicted in the aftermath of September 11."

10/11/01 - You know how when you visit relatives and they still have that terrible photo of you taken when you had no front teeth or a really bad haircut?  How about if they had life-size statues of you instead?