Sunday News Pizza (extra humour)
Jul 15th, 2007 by Eats Wombats
A delicious spoof of Alastair Campbell’s diaries from today’s Sunday Times: Tony Blair: his part in my rise to world domination. Even some of the people Campbell rubbished and loathed were surprisingly generous; Matthew Parris for example.
Most of the papers seem to have had a laugh over the marriage of one of Osama Bin Laden’s sons. The Daily Mirror was quoted in the Sunday Times as follows:
“If he was here right now, we’d be able to ask him: ‘So Mr Bin Laden, what first attracted your 26-year-old eyes to the five-times-married, 51-year-old, multiple sclerosis-suffering grandmother with a British passport?’ ”
This is chauvinism. I say the aspiring lady is after a bit of notoriety. According to The Times she proposed to him. There’s a bit more about her in the Daily Mail, a reptilian little englander organ I would never willingly give a penny to. It’s reinventing itself as a music distribution business, and is including a free music CD each week. As Conrad Black could testify if allowed to do so, there’s not enough money in newspapers any more.
Meanwhile, the price on the father-in-law’s head has, I see, just increased to $50m. (Surely, if Mr.Bush demanded a larger sum to leave office now his demand would be oversubscribed?)
To leaven the bombast, chauvinism and journalistic egomania there’s nothing like a good cartoon. One of the best lately was by “Matt” in The Telegraph — depicting two policemen, one lowering a concrete barrier into position on a sidewalk and saying to the other
“A concrete barrier a day keeps the doctor away.”
And the feel good story of the week was surely the $10,000 tip for the Pizza Hut waitress. Perhaps the world is hungry for a bit of good news.
