Category: Piffle

  • How Do Replicators Work?
    How Do Replicators Work?

    A few days ago, I began wondering how the Replicators in Star Trek work. So, like any good idiot, I took to Google, and started to learn what other people thought about the same subject. Because, let’s be certain, there is no actual answer, as they don’t exist. If you don’t know what a Replicator…

  • Self Love
    Self Love

    I commissioned a portrait of myself. (by Iszi Lawrence)

  • What Was On Telly The Day I Went To University?
    What Was On Telly The Day I Went To University?

    I’ll be honest, I didn’t really enjoy my first term at University, and spent a lot of it in the editing suite making my own fun, or in my room watching a portable black and white television. I would have missed most of what was on TV the day I arrived there though, and this…

  • What Was On Telly The Day I Was Born?
    What Was On Telly The Day I Was Born?

    I was a bit distracted on the day of my birth, so I don’t know what I missed on telly that day. Thanks to the BBC’s Genome Project though, I can have a look and see what was on. BBC One showed an episode of the Mister Men featuring Mr Mean and Mr Tickle. I can’t…

  • What’s The Opposite Of Fun?
    What’s The Opposite Of Fun?

    It’s episode of four of setisoppO, the podcast where we discuss the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. This week, we ponder on board games, brick hods, and drugs. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo004.mp3   It would be great if you could subscribe to us on iTunes, or our RSS feed. It would be even better…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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