My soup collection: it's been coming
together steadily for about two years, the Ainsley Harroitt
pretentious packet soup collection in my desk drawer bottom, an
eclectic mix of soup vapours and colouring atoms that populate the
space besides my breakfast crackers and one cup coffee sachets. The
trouble is that I've lost control of it. It started with a few
Stilton and lookalike Leeks, then some Mulligatawny and now it's
grown like floppy bunny Topsy into an encyclopedic display of unknown
but coded packets of mysterious powders, each one containing the
basic ingredients of some exotic soup or other. As they are mixed and
anonymous I have to guess or imagine the contents; Carrot and Bamboo
Giraffe, Merseyside Mud Pie and Wensleydale, Chicken and Plum with
Scrotum Lemon Grass, Suet and Blue Budgerigar, Italian Matto-Grosso
with Chick-Pea Turpentine, Seaweed El Greco? Mmm can't wait till
lunch time.
Glasgow Rangers RIP: Over in Scotland's
favourite city fans have been rocked by the news that their great
bigoted and ignorant institution has been quietly run into the ground
by a combination of swollen headedness, ineptitude, chronic failure
and Karmic consequences. Yes, Rangers FC, now ready for anything
including the administrator and are up to their Broxi Burgers in
debt. “It's like watching an ill relative that's not going to
recover.” said a commentator. More like an ill dictator or despot
hanging on the barbed wire or from a lamppost in my view. The fans
will of course rally round, sing a few heartfelt and plucky folk
songs and then quickly desert the sinking ship as if it was the Costa
Concord on a barrel roll. Then as Rangers slink slowly into the West
so will the rest of Scottish football along with them as the golden
goose chokes. It really should be so easy to succeed at success but
then again it's heartening and possibly humbling to know that nobody
is too big to fail. I wonder if the SNP will band together and bail
them out from the Tesco tax coffers? Maybe one fine day we can all
relax, forget about keeping up with the Champions League, the
pressures of Sky and stupid salary levels and just play decent and
entertaining provincial football that we can all follow set at
reasonable prices and within realistic costs.
Science comes to the rescue: Scientists
and clever students with Persil white coats and Nike shoes have
stumbled upon the elusive mathematical formula that even Leonardo Da
Vinci failed to find. In a announcement that will be celebrated by
men of a certain age all cross Scotland it's become apparent that the
answer to middle aged nasal hair growth and stimulation has been
found. Using only a simple Casio calculator and some ex-Post Office
rubbers bands scientists have made a full genetic model the predicts
and illustrates the possible outcomes and consequences of certain key
genes on nasal hair development. “It's a great day for all
fashionistas and sufferers,” said Doctor Kelvin Bidet. “No longer
will blokes be worried about nasal hair projections, root dysfunction
or impulse tweezer purchase from Boots the Chemists, they'll be able
to enter in their details on a simple web site and monitor their
growth prospects and follicle projections on line.” An Ap for those
fiddly about to be obsolete iPhone things is also planned.
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