A wee place on Mull
Apparently it’s a really good place to go!!
Photo by The Logicster
Fed up with religion?
Police have told a Hampshire woman that she should take down a sign on her gate that reads “Our dogs are fed on Jehovah’s Witnesses”. The message at the home of Jean Grove has been amusing neighbours and passers-by in Bursledon for more than 30 years.
Police said they were concerned people would find it “distressing, offensive and inappropriate”. However, even a spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hampshire said he was not offended by the sign and described it as “stupid”.
Mrs Grove remains defiant and said her late husband had erected the sign after Jehovah’s Witnesses had anti-socially banged on their door one Christmas Day. She admits that her Jack Russell dog, so tiny she has named it Rabbit, is carnivorous, though.
With thanks to the National Secular Society
Mmmmm, tasty
Guess what I bought at Asda to make my burgers healthier - that’s right Bran Relish!
Cultural differences
A gem of a title from American Christian publisher Focus on the Family…
It would seem that to be ‘on the job’ means something different over here in Blighty.
Now THAT’S an excuse
Continuing the theme of quality professional out-of-office replies, here’s a gem from Sarcasmo’s lovely thespian friend Sian.
I’m out of the office as I am currently starring in 42nd Street. If you need help, please contact Lou, Mel, Terri, Gema or Nicky.
I shall be back on the 31st of July.
Cheers
Heave By Gum
This is Wang Xiaobei.
She is pulling a truck. With her TEETH.
The truck, loaded with PEOPLE, weighs approximately 5 TONS.
SHE IS 72!!
I hope she has Denplan.
Bad title
Sarcasmo’s little brother, Sarcasbro, is currently in the process of clearing out his house. While giving him a hand, Sarcasmo found this magazine - evidence of the marketing nous that business people have! Or not. You’d have thought that the people who publish ‘Business Studies magazine’ would be able to come up WITH A BETTER LOGO…
Officially, A Load Of Toss
This cannot possibly be true, can it?
(And where do I sign up??)
Sponsored by Kleenex, one presumes.
What the L?
A c(l)assic c(l)anger from the latest issue of Christianity magazine!
Is it a case of ‘hot burning lust’?
It’s got bells on
Sarcasmo.co.uk - first with the news you won’t hear anywhere else (with good reason). This from Ship of Fools:
COMPUTING MEETS CAMPANOLOGY AS BELL-RINGERS
HEAD TO BEDFORDSHIRE TO CELEBRATE HOLY FOOL
FEWER THINGS are sillier than standing in a circle pulling ropes – and none that breeds such enthusiastic, obsessive devotion in so many people.
That’s how David Ward views one of the most unusual events of the summer – a special bell-ringing meeting this Saturday (11am, 22 July). A quarter peal will be attempted in honour of St Simeon, the holy fool, patron saint of UK webzine, shipoffools.com.
Seven bell-ringing readers are meeting for the first time at St Mary the Virgin, Carlton, Bedfordshire having set out at the crack of dawn from Basingstoke, Liverpool, Norwich, Cambridge and London.
‘Bell-ringing really does raise foolishness to an art form,’ says David. ‘It is a fitting way to honour St Simeon. I haven’t met any fellow readers of shipoffools.com (known as shipmates) in real life. Like bell-ringers they are known for being friendly and strange in equal measure. A meeting of bell-ringing shipmates could be extraordinary.’
Each year, shipoffools.com celebrates the feast of St Simeon who played the fool to mock the idiocy of the world - and to conceal his identity as a saint. His behaviour was eccentric and scandalous. During church services, he threw nuts at the clergy. On solemn fasting days he consumed vast amounts of beans – with predictable and hilarious results.
Such behaviour is unlikely at St Mary on Saturday – ‘but if all else fails, we’ll have had a good meet, and most people will have “grabbed” a couple of towers (rung at a tower where they hadn’t before),’ says David. ‘In fact, what could be more foolish than travelling across the country for a day of pulling on ropes and ending up with nothing concrete to show for it? Maybe that would be the ultimate way to honour St Simeon…’