The most regretful of all Eight-Minute Regrets? Not DiCaprio
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The most regretful of all Eight-Minute Regrets? Not DiCaprio

Exactly eight minutes in ... regret. I started feeling sluggish,irritable,dopey from that mystery-gas they pump through the air-con to make customers buy shirts,bed-linen and gyozas in that order.

  • byDanny Katz

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Conan the Deliverer of Wisdom (but not Scrolls of Sorbent)

Conan the Deliverer of Wisdom (but not Scrolls of Sorbent)

As the dark coronavirus plague descends and the panicked villagers rush for toilet rolls,hearken to the words of the mighty Conan.

  • byJohn Birmingham
If the leader of the free world says it,it must be true
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If the leader of the free world says it,it must be true

If you tell a lie enough times people will believe it.

  • byWarwick McFadyen
When the coronapocalypse is over,I’m never washing my hands again

When the coronapocalypse is over,I’m never washing my hands again

I’ve washed them so many thousands of times the last few days that I have scrubbed off every loop and whorl of my fingerprints and clogged up every pore with soap.

  • byJohn Birmingham
What they're not telling you about the Great Baboon Escape

What they're not telling you about the Great Baboon Escape

Nobody in the so-called"responsible"media will tell you this,so it falls to me to screech an appropriate warning about the great baboon escape yesterday. The Danger Has Not Passed.

  • byJohn Birmingham
There was a knock on the door:a different kind of knock
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There was a knock on the door:a different kind of knock

This was a friendly,old-fashioned KNOCKA KNOCKA,and I thought,hmmm,why’s a friend popping around in the middle of a working day?

  • byDanny Katz
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The Chinatown dumpling show is the best free entertainment in town
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The Chinatown dumpling show is the best free entertainment in town

All the critics agree:The Chinatown Dumpling Window Show is even better than The Sushi-Rolling Airport-Food-Court Extravaganza.

  • byDanny Katz
'We’re both agreed this seat is in a marginal condition'
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'We’re both agreed this seat is in a marginal condition'

A park bench. A bulging paper bag sits on the ground. The faint sounds of the song Howzat carry over the park. Friends Guildenstern and Rosencrantz carry an air of befuddlement.

  • byWarwick McFadyen
It was a beautiful sunny day at the beach...
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It was a beautiful sunny day at the beach...

Under the sand,an artist-colony of sand-worms created beautiful abstract art-squiggles,while a passing crab scoffed and mumbled,“Pffff,my kid could’ve done that…”

  • byDanny Katz
The cheapest things are often the best
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The cheapest things are often the best

A pissy $2 potato-peeler always peels better than any $20"ergonomic"version that you have to hold back-to-front and upside-down.

  • byDanny Katz
Why we like our old friends better than our new friends

Why we like our old friends better than our new friends

After you turn 30,every chatty rando with an interest in canine sphincter cysts is just a new best friend you haven’t met yet.

  • byJohn Birmingham