Tag Archives: Birmingham Mail

Is this ‘unique’ or are the media keeping people dumb?

4 June 2009 – 10:05 am

The Birmingham Mail covered this exchange on Pete Ashton’s blog, which is good — it’s a story. To sum up, an advertising company working on behalf of the Rep Theatre were using reverse graffiti, they — mistakenly one would assume — used it on a monument (that it’s a monument isn’t immediately obvious, if you don’t […]

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Susan Boyle Swine Flu Sex and MPs

30 April 2009 – 10:37 pm

Local MP Sion Simon (finding his way on Twitter) ReTweeted a (vaguely amusing, but not ear-shatteringly funny) witicism: “I’m not saying Susan Boyle caused swine flu. I’m just saying that nobody had swine flu, she sang on TV, people got swine flu.” It’s about Now Show standard, topical, smirk-worthy rather than a belly-laugh — what […]

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Shouldn’t laugh

20 November 2008 – 10:26 pm

But if they tried to “set fires” and flood the place at the same time I’m not surprised that it didn’t work.

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