Saturday 29 October 2011

Amusingly appropriate annunciator

A co-conspirator spotted this in the House of Commons...



So that those on the ermine benches don't feel left out, why not watch Lord Crisp's contribution to the obesity debate?

Thursday 6 October 2011

There AAN't half been some clever bastards

Hello, and welcome to the new and debateably improved Amusingly Appropriate Names blog — where we find examples of those happy confluences between accidents of birth and accidents of, er, other stuff, so you can use your own time in a more productive fashion.

To wit: check out the patronyms on these poindexters (or should that be pundexters?)...

Graham McElearney advises on e-learning; Dr John Learned is indeed; as is historian Rob Tombs; and Dr James Orwell has invented a smarter, more... more... more Orwellian sort of CCTV.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the brainy scale, Raven Knickerbocker performed "a rogue act of insanity" at Mad River Community Hospital.

All very appropriate, all very amusing, no doubt.