Tag Archives: Odd News

All Scottish Children To Receive Free Orchestral CD At Birth

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on October 11th, 2012

I don’t know about you, gentle Anglophenians, but this story has created something of a dilemma, in that I’m too sceptical to accept it wholeheartedly, but too optimistic to dismiss it outright.

The Best Of London Underground’s Spoof Signs

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on October 9th, 2012

There appears to be a rash of funny stickers infecting the trains on the London underground at present. Some of them are daft, some are satirical, but almost all of them are amazing.

Never Mind The London Eye, Here’s The London Nose

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 17th, 2012

Londoners have had to put up with many strange sights over the past few weeks: flying cyclists with angel wings, people doing the Mo Farah M hand-signal, the Spice Girls, but this one takes the cake. A massive nose appeared on the ...

Do Not Watch: British National Cheese Anthem Announced!

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 15th, 2012

You may remember a while ago we reported on the promotional competition genuine search by the British Cheese Board to find a national anthem for British cheeses. Actually, you may not, of all the sentences to stick in the mind, that one ...

British Stuntman Falls 2400ft Without Parachute… And Lives

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on May 24th, 2012

This is Gary Connery, a stuntman whose job is to confound expectations of mortality after throwing himself headlong into peril. That’s what it says on his passport and everything.