Nostalgia Fridays: Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird and Barbapapas

More old cartoons for your nostalgia Friday today, both of them of French origin! The first one is Wattoo Wattoo Super Bird, a cartoon I’d dimly remembered, but could never figure out or recall the name of. Isn’t the Intarwebs a wonderful place for rediscovering the wonders of your youth? I [...]

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The best car review you’ll read all week

And of course it’s the wit and wisdom of Jeremy Clarkson, the host of the ever funny Top Gear. This time around, Clarkson reviews the Honda Insight Hybrid car, and if you’ve ever watched Top Gear before, you’d know that Clarkson isn’t a fan of Hondas, and believes that they’re cars for “old people”. So, [...]

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Nostalgia Friday: La Linea

Yea, I know it’s a day late. Had a pretty busy Friday and in the rush of things, I kinda forgot about Nostalgia Friday. So…I know that a good number of viewers from my side of the world will remember La Linea, the strange two-minute cartoon about a line drawing and [...]

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Nandos and Audi ads

I love these ads:
Tannie Evita and Nandos (of course, she is in contact with Barack! you doubted that?

And Audi uses gymnasts to show the power:

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Some more Podge and Rodge

Just in case you happen to think that Irish puppetry is all about thinly-veiled sexualisms, masturbating, sex, porn, spanking the monkey, hot water and a shaggy cat:
Here’s “The Vampire Leprechaun”

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Another public suicide: man kills self on live TV

Hot on the heels of the online suicide posted by S, an ex-police officer in Buenos Aires has committed suicide on live TV just after completing an interview. The man, Mario Ferreyra, shot himself fatally in the head as he was about to be arrested on charges for alleged human rights violations.
“Maria, goodbye,” Mario Ferreyra [...]

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More Doctor Who news: New Doctor NOT Paterson Joesph, John Simm or James Sesbitt

Sci-fi blog io9.com has an article that details the reasons behind Tennant’s departure from this brilliant series:
So was David Tennant’s leaving the show all down to his need to move on? A now or never thing? Not quite. He had been in negotiations with the BBC for a fifth, even a sixth full series, but [...]

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New Doctor to be female?

According to this article in the Daily Fail..err Daily Mail, there’s talk of the next Doctor being female.
Very Interesting, I say.
Then they go on to say Billie Piper may be candidate of choice.
Hell no, I say.
I have nothing against a female doctor, in fact I’m very intrigued by the possibility, but [...]

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Podge and Rodge ii

Here’s some more P&R for your weekend!
“Lazybones” … the cons of having a lie-in the morning. I love the “Special magazines from Dublin”!

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Podge and Rodge

While in Ireland, we were subjected to Irish humour … and got addicted to Podge and Rodge.
Great stories, each about 5 mins long.
Here’s “Carmel sutra”:

Here’s “Holiday in hell”:

Thanks O’ds

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