So good you couldn't make it up!

First, apologies for last post's spelling mistake and the use of the c-word. To be fair, in the case of the c-word I was referring to myself...so I'm the only one who should be offended...and I offend myself frequently but not as frequently as i embarrass myself!

For as long as i can remember local newspapers, once in a while, have published something which has ended up much funnier than originally intended. The Yorkshire Post used to run a celebrity anagram competition...one week the anagram was "I'm in a crate"...the answer was the Northern comedienne, Marti Caine...the anagram, of course ran the week after she died! Similarly the Bath Evening Chronicle once published a story about a local lad who'd been killed clearing landmines in Angola...it then went on to say "his parents were flying to Angola to retrace his last steps".

The London edition of Metro yesterday published a story, which while not quite in the same league, tickled me all the same under the headline "Fake penis pair to be banged up for 8 years"...this in itself is open to interpretation. The story went on to talk about a couple of California-based businessmen who designed the 'Whizzinator' which is basically a fake penis (complete with heating element and fake urine) designed to help people fake their way through drug tests...it went on to point out that actor tom SIZEMORE had been caught with one. You'd have thought with his surname he might have seen that coming (no pun intended!).

Anyway, totally unrelated it occurred to me today that comedy is indeed the new Nostra Damus. First this clip from the once legendary Ali G on the subject of feminism...spot the reference to the possibility of woman becoming president of the United States one day...close but no cigar!...and then bear in mind that this was filmed while Hilary was still at home doing the dishes and Bill had Monica's head wedged somewhere Hilary wouldn't have approved of. (sensitive viewers notice how i avoided say Monica was giving Bill a blowie!)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oftOCN1jkNo

Slightly more recent and slightly more pertinent, Little Britain's Carol Beard limbering up to take Henry Paulson's role and hot on the heels of Citi's bailout getting ready to tell the CEO of every other bank that the cupboard's now bare.

Joking apart this is probably how it happens and how Richard Fuld learned that Lehman Brothers would be no more!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yBAibOQchD0