TheEye advised visitors that blogging would be erratic or incoherent this weekend as St. Crispin and myself were going to be sharing a beerage with a wide variety of the denizens of Gibraltar. This has turned out to be accurate. Just after lunchtime was the hour of TheEye’s awakening. Therefore […]

Being a non-corporeal entity TheEye usually laughs in the face of challengers. This eye-related story, however, oversteps the mark. From the never-to-be-ignored Austrian Times: Kung Fu eyeballs a sight to see. “A Chinese man claims to have the toughest eyeballs in the world after finding he could pour sand on […]

TheEye dislikes reproducing stories which have already begun to make their way around t’interweb but this one is almost too scary to be true and an exception must be made. The vastly expensive campaign has had this poster designed. The Lone Voice here observes:In a time of recession the government […]

No, not the plaintive cry of a potato, but the words of the most famous cartoon spinach-eater: Popeye. Not true for much longer. In a few hours time the copyright on the sailor will expire. Our EU overlords only allow his creator, Elize Segar (who died aged 43), 70 years […]

TheEye would like to Hat-Tip The Croydonian for a marvellous headline: Israelis consider ground offensive in Gaza As he observes…was the ground grumpy? Angry? Depressed? Vaguely not amused? Unhappy to be there? Was sea or air preferable for a sparky conversation? It’s here. TheEye suspects that Israel probably had a […]

It would be hard to believe that most of TheEye’s regular readers are not frequent denizens of Komsomolskaya Pravda. So therefore it is only for passing blog visitors that one feels the need to relate the sorry tale (reported today) of a naked couple pulled from a freezing river after […]

In ridiculous news today, TheEye has been tipped off about plans by architect Tom Stebbings to build a nine-foot wide house. It’ll be three storeys high and will be built on the site of a garage (pictured) in Albert Street, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Somehow there will be two […]

Always on the lookout for that final stocking-filler, TheEye happens upon this book called “Toujours Tingo: Weird words and bizarre phrases“. Compiled by Adam Jacot de Boinod, it lists weird words and bizarre phrases from around the world. The “tingo” of its title is an Easter Island word, meaning to […]

As a non-corporeal being TheEye cannot have committed a sin. However, as the picture shows, souls have been literally weighed for purity in the past. With a newly-found and certain nervousness about one’s lack of physical being, TheEye is worried that eBay has now banned the selling of one’s soul. […]

TheEye has no sympathy for the politically correct thought-police who now seem to rule our lives. However a small amount of pity can be found for the desk-bound cretin who has to work this tricky one out: what do you do with a “lesbian Asian bus driver” sacked now by […]