Category: Piffle
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7 Things To Ask On A Date
Meeting new people can be difficult at the best of times, but especially when you want to meet them for romantic reasons. I always get a bit tongue tied around people who make my belly throb in a weird way, and so it’s always nice to have something to fall back on when the conversation…
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Check It Out!
Sometimes the history algorithms on YouTube mean I get given the choice to watch some random, but interesting, things. Today it offered me this. Not the crappy John Virgo bit, of course, but the promo for Tripper’s Day, a Leonard Rossiter sitcom for Thames Television in 1984. It was written by Brian Cooke, and abruptly…
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The Ticking Man
At the start of the 1990s, Hollywood was going spec script crazy. They were paying Shane Black and Joe Ezsterhas millions of dollars for screenplays like Showgirls and The Last Boy Scout. In all, Ezsterhas reportedly sold $26 million dollars worth of Courier New words, half of which never got made. Amongst all this, a…
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An Over The Top Way To Settle An Argument
There was a moment, in 1992, when two companies found themselves using similar slogans to hock their wares. Instead of a protracted legal wrangle, they decided to settle the matter another way. Southwest Airlines, who shuttle people around the clouds in metal tubes, found itself the market leader of this shenanigan in the 1970s and…
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Twiglets Used to Be Really Long
Funny what you forget. I was watching an episode of The Comic Strip a few months ago (I don’t remember which one, sorry), and I saw a box of something on a caravan shelf. It reminded me of Matchmakers, the chocolate tube thing, but these were Twiglets. Twiglets used to be long? I vaguely remember…
