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Ways in which the modern world is better than olden-times

July 29th, 2009
  • Porn
  • If Erik Satie comes back to life, our zombie slaying abilities are much advanced
  • Copyright infringment on a massive and global scale
  • Lower risk of T-Rex death; high risk of T-Rex disco funk
  • Modern technologies give every person the ability to express their opinions, and to have those opinions heard around the world (Ed: On second thoughts, no.)
  • You can get the TV program guide in a newspaper, a magazine, on your mobile phone, and the Internet!
  • Paperwork
  • Neil Diamond’s Crunchy Granola Suite
  • This blog, which I think happens to be pretty awesome, and would have been much harder to write in the 17th Century, with all the constants “olde”s and “ye”s and “forsoothe”s, not to mention that the lack of blog software, RSS feeds, the Internet, or electricity would have mean that publishing an RSS feed would have involved a lot of ink, and definetly Repetitive Strain Injury, if RSI had been invented yet
  • Lindsay Lohan porn

Ways in which the modern world is worse than olden-times

July 27th, 2009
  • Chinese food no longer “Exotic mystery of the Orient”
  • Witches roam the nights unburnt
  • Greater risk of being in a plane crash, being hit by a plane falling from the sky, crashing on drive to the airport, choking on peanut purchased from airport delicatessen
  • Erik Satie – still dead
  • Tens of thousands left unemployed with the downturn in the leech industry
  • Less pirates = less tricorn hats
  • Universal suffrage
  • Even my fricking Nokia 5110 had actual buttons I could press. Fricking Apple
  • Universities less concerned with plaguarism, more concerned with plague
  • Colour no longer consistently spelt “ou” across the whole English speaking world
  • Lindsay Lohan

Alliterative adjective-food combinations that could also be stripper stage names

July 22nd, 2009
  • Leggy Lingonberry
  • Slutty Stroganoff
  • Ravishing Ricotta
  • Chesty Chestnuts
  • Chunky Chutney
  • Tarty Tamarind
  • Mannish Marmalade
  • Punky Pumpkin
  • Bisexual Bananas (GBC note: Also see list “Alliterative adjective-food combinations that could be awesome band names”)
  • Willing-To-Exchange-Sex-For-Money Watermelon
  • Promiscuous Plantain

Movie plots that would have been improved had they starred me in the role of “Senior Bureaucrat”

July 21st, 2009
  • Footloose – the character of Kevin Bacon is unable to dance in his conservative home town. Faces pressure from his family to conform. Struggles to contain his dancing urges. I, in the role of Senior Bureaucrat, explain to him that dancing is forbidden without first obtaining dancing licence. He obtains licence, and dances freely, except after 6PM on Thursdays, and on the Sabbath. Conservative home town goes on to host Goodwill Games.
  • Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets – Harry completes form “I97 – Access To Classified Chamber-Contained Material”. Harry waits three weeks. Footage of me, in the role of Senior Bureaucrat, calling Harry and explaining he has incorrectly filled out his form (“Harry, I understand that you need access to the chamber, but you need to have a post office manager witness your signature before I can help you”). Harry resends his form, and is given access to the Chamber. The secrets are revealed to have been within Harry all along.
  • Deliverance – Bobby, played by Ned Beatty, is raped by a member of an inbred family. Lewis, played by Burt Reynolds, contacts the appropriate authorities. I, in the role of Senior Bureaucrat, appear, and despite the pleas of the hillbillies, place the children of the clan into a temporary foster home. One of those children eventually learns to love again; Bobby bleeds to death.
  • Casablanca – Isla Lund, after boarding the plane, realises her mistake, and advises the local prefect (myself in the role of Senior Bureaucrat). Rick Blaine is arrested, tortured, and executed. Louis Renault later goes on to assasinate Adolf Hitler.
  • Dirty Dancing – my character, the Senior Bureaucrat, arrives at the club, and has everyone arrested for child abuse based on baby-painting allegations. Patrick Swayze goes on, but only just.
  • Pretty Woman – Richard Gere, the wealthy industrialist, falls in love with Julia Roberts, the hooker with a heart of gold. Richard Gere tries to lobby the State Government to legalise prostitution; at first the Senior Bureaucrat (played by myself) objects, but then after realising that it would improve the occupational health and safety of the girls’ lives, as well as bring in an additional revenue stream from registration fees, I relent. Julia Roberts’ character decides to become a pimp, and proceeds to abduct, and then sell into child slavery, the girl from Curly Sue. The Government earns $8.6 million from legalised brothels.
  • Office Space – Peter Gibbons, played by Ron Livingston, leads a depressing, buttoned down existence in a world full of cubicles. In an attempt to create a character franchise, I reprise my role as “Senior Bureaucrat” from Footloose, and teach Peter how to feel true joy through the medium of dance. Peter goes on to win employee of the month, while my character kills 5 after tap-dancing through cubicles armed with an assault rifle.

Signs you are covered in honey

July 20th, 2009
  • Hairy gay men keep trying to lick you
  • Squirrels keep watching you pee
  • Constant late night phone calls from Winnie the Pooh
  • Golddigging skanks keep trying to grope you Sorry, I misread honey as money
  • RT from @Sparrow – nice honey, @GuidedByCharts!
  • New beehive haircut suspiciously beehivey
  • You are slightly stickier than normal