Yesterday was the 90th birthday of legendary jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. Born in Concord, California and son of a cattle farmer, he served in in George Patton’s Third Army and created one of the U.S. armed forces’ first racially integrated bands, “The Wolfpack”. With one of that band, Paul Desmond, […]
A very poignant picture from the Navy News. After 50,762 hours at sea and 621,551 miles sailed the massive decommissioning pennant stretched from the main mast, along the flight deck and into the Solent. Doesn’t it remind you of Turner’s Fighting Temeraire being towed away to be broken up? Here’s […]
Pure genius from Northumbria Police: Police have issued a reminder to Geordies to wear their coats this weekend. Drinkers in Newcastle are famed for going out without a top layer, and pictures of revellers enjoying a night on the toon in just their party dresses featured in the national press […]
When our children look back on the global warming hoax, they’ll have a laugh at the absurdly overblown prophecies of doom and the willful idiocy of the fools of our generation who believed them….and the gullibility of their own for swallowing their school based eco-brainwashing. Slowly but surely more people […]
Al-Qaeda has apparently welcomed the decision this week by FIFA to hold the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. EXTREMISTS welcomed FIFA’s decision to have Qatar host the 2022 World Cup, predicting Al-Qaeda will establish an “Islamic State” in the Gulf region in the coming years, monitors said. “You fools, know that […]
Via Atlas Shrugged, does this make you feel safer when travelling by ‘plane? Behold the latest conscript in the Islamic army…an 80 year old wheelchair-bound Terror Nun. El Al-type profiling, anyone? Please?
Question Time tonight comes from Coventry, and on the panel tonight we have Danny “Ginger Rodent” Alexander, Nadine Dorries, Ken Livingstone, Sir Christopher Meyer and John Sergeant. For those playing the Buzzword Bingo we’ll be using the Football’s Not Comin’ ‘Ome Rules, meaning that Beckam makes an unexpected entry on tonight’s cards, […]
Most people now know of the sad loss of Leslie Nielsen on Sunday. Pneumonia, in the end, rather than the much more likely banana peel, wheelchair, and eight flights of stairs. He was famous for roles in dozens of films and tv shows including The Naked Gun and Police Squad; and […]
Surely this YahooAnswers entry has to be a troll? In case it isn’t why not head over in the 4 days left on this question and help the lad out with a helpful suggestion or two? TheEye’s favourite suggestion so far is “Your best bet is to Google “Lemon Party” as […]
Regular readers will know that TheEye has a long running and slow motion carcrash-like fascination with the ever-odd Austrian Times. And today it continues to amaze: An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn, according to a report. The Kronen Zeitung newspaper claims Helmut G. was told by […]
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