HEARD THE LATEST RYANAIR JOKE?
Another impractical ruse was to impose a €1 charge for using aircraft toilets. This was followed by the ‘fat tax’; a scheme to surcharge passengers considered overweight.
What is your view on Compulsory Companions?
I will never forget the expression on my teenage sons’ faces when I suggested they share a hotel bed when we were motoring through Europe. Both looked at me like I was something they had scraped off the bottom of their shoe.
“Go ahead, make my day”
The shoot-out, which lasted only about 30 seconds, involved Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan Earp, and Doc Holliday against the Clanton gang. Three outlaws were killed, but the violence persisted. Virgil was ambushed and wounded in December 1881, and Morgan was killed in March 1882.
A Revolution in Reading and it is Sensual
Publisher Caroline Ridding told The Guardian that erotic fiction has an enormous global online constituency driven almost exclusively by female readers.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT FOREIGNERS?
Q: What do you call a person who speaks several languages? A: Multilingual. Q: How do you describe a person who speaks two languages? A: Bilingual. Q: What do you call a person who speaks only one language? A: British.
If it isn’t broke don’t fix it
It was discovered that over 80 per cent of us cannot quite get the hang of programming devices or putting things together. In fact, I emerged with honours.
WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
Long before the term political correctness had any meaning there was a richness to riposte that is sadly lacking in today’s patois. Those in the public eye often captured the headlines with a sneering wisecrack at an opponent. Newspaper editors too risked their readers’ wrath with an occasional […]
AIR TURBULENCE ~ The Ultimate White Knuckle Ride
Soon after becoming airborne, passengers and crew experienced the weightlessness you get when you are falling without a parachute. That is exactly what we or rather the airliners are doing.
WHAT CLASS WERE YOU IN?
I once told her I was sweating. She pulled me up on that one. ‘No Michael; horses sweat, men perspire, but we ladies just feel the heat.’
Who is Who in Life’s Real Hall of Fame?
In my experience, the most readable people are ordinary men and women. Often and unexpectedly those we consider conventional people were cast by fate into extraordinary situations.
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