The View From Here - as wet as a shag on a rock

8/8/02 - What people in Sheffield do for fun - Extreme Ironing. I actually saw them filming this, I suppose the extreme part is being almost run over by a tram:

Extreme Ironing, the right way and the wrong way

8/8/02 - Half Man Half Biscuit on mp3 from their appearance on the Andy Kershaw show. (via As Above)

Clagnut recalls Half Man Half Biscuit as Bob Wilson announces his retirement:

"Lord, I've tried the best I can
I've asked everybody in Kazakhstan
but I still don't understand
Bob Wilson - anchorman.
I've been to Kent, Gwent and Senegal
I've even been to look for Jim Rosenthal
Found him on his knees at the Wailing Wall, crying
Bob Wilson - anchorman..."

8/8/02 - Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear me, Happy Birthday to me.

6/8/02 - Just too silly. Edinburgh council tarmacs a road but doesn't move the abandoned car first: (via dj online)

4/8/02 - Puzzling. Why is a comics auction site called 26pigs.com?

4/8/02 - The Seven Wonders of Britain. The Seven Wonders of Norfolk, and the Seven Blunders of Norfolk:

"1 Hardwick Roundabout at King's Lynn
2 Tattersett tyre mountain
3 Dangerous stretches of the A11/A47/A140
4 Sea Palling Reefs
5 Norwich's sections of tiny double yellow lines
6 County Hall
7 We stopped at six as Norfolk has more wonders than blunders!"

4/8/02 - The prologue to the new Mountain Goats album, Tallahassee:

"WE came into town under cover of night, because we were pretty sure the people here were going to hate us once they really got to know us. It was summer. It?s always summer with us. In our lives together, which are sweet in the way of rotting things, it is somehow permanently summer..."

4/8/02 - 'Murder capital of the world' - not a phrase that you normally associate with Adelaide:

"Channel 4 has issued an apology to the Australian city of Adelaide after a documentary mistakenly described it as "the murder capital of the world"."

4/8/02 - Meme of the week: Who's Your Daddy?

I'm in there. My parents: Robot Wisdom, Obscure Store, NTK, Windowseat and Bifurcated Rivets. My only child is methysalicylate and her father is Robot Wisdom as well, which makes the weblogging world pretty inbred.

4/8/02 - The Ambiguously Gay Duo in Quicktime format. Come along and sing along:

"The Ambiguously Gay Duo!
The Ambiguously Gay Duo!
They are taking on evil, come what may
They are fighting all crime to save the day.
They're extremely close in an ambiguous way.
They're ambiguously gay.
They're ambiguously gay.
The Ambiguously Gay Duo!"

3/8/02 - Ever wanted to stick a big fat arse on your company's website? Well now you can thanks to the amazing Ass-o-tron. (via Boing Boing)

3/8/02 - The new Sleater-Kinney album will be available on August 20th. Get your free mp3 now. (via bud)