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TEXT ARCHIVE 2009

March 3rd, 2010 Posted in Text Archive | No Comments »
01/01/2009
Yraunaj.
Simon H
A New Year’s Eve game required Ellie to say the 12 months of the year backwards. You would think ‘December, November, October’ etc, but no…

09/01/2009
About to go for an interview with the BBC about Boris and thongs. Fun!
Simon S
Simon’s fascination with Mayor Boris Johnson never ceases to amaze.

23/01/2009
Obama first black President, Lewis Hamilton first black F1 world champion, Will Smith the highest paid actor, Tiger Woods the best golfer. How times change! It’s a really good time to be black. Michael Jackson must be kicking himself!
Simon H

28/01/2009
Despite living 15 minutes away, Nick is a full hour late.
Simon S

04/02/2009
Wmt.pd wdjand. Sorry, my predictive text seems to have gone for a burton.
Simon H
I still don’t understand this.

05/02/2009
It seems our chalet hosts have done a runner with 34 people’s 200 Euro life pass money. More importantly, it means we got no breakfast.
Alex MacH

06/02/2009
Got my first arrest! Splendid.
Simon H
PC Hunter, contrary to popular belief, wasn’t actually there to search for computers.

06/02/2009
Anyway, I was 96 up…
Simon S
Simon quotes Nick M’s story about the time he (rather too proudly) beat a disabled child at bowling.

12/02/2009
I just drove a police car.
Simon H
The police-related updates were never boring.

24/02/2009
Are you available to come to a charity pancake competition tonight? The organisers have the pans and the ingredients, they just need a tosser. You free?
Paul T

04/03/2009
High. Watt r ewe up two four you’re berthday.
Simon H
An attempt to rile my spelling and grammar OCD.

16/03/2009
Minnie The Mouse.
Simon S
There is a Sara Bareilles song called ‘Many The Miles’, but it sounds like she’s singing ‘Minnie The Mouse’.

16/03/2009
Prepare your nerves… Cutting Edge have confirmed they’re filming the wedding and reception.
Simon S
In an attempt to get a free wedding video, Simon allows Channel 4 documentary makers to film at his wedding. Fantastic, if you’re not Best Man…

23/03/2009
I’m ducked if I know. Stupid predictive text.
Simon H

01/04/2009
Hello. Is it a problem that I’ve been signed off work for a week with a bad back? Does that affect stag stuff?
Simon S
Simon’s attempt to wriggle out of his stag do was poor. Very poor.

03/04/2009
On root, as chavs would spell it.
Paul D
For those of you thinking that ‘on root’ is the right spelling, it’s not. En route is the correct spelling, you chav.

10/04/2009
I’ve just seen a lovely bailey, possibly a 5-birth. Nice wagon!
Shaun H
Caravan-spotting on return from Simon S’ stag do conjured some interesting conversations. Oh, and it’s berth.

17/04/2009
Alrite m8, bad news. Police are onto us. They’re looking for a sexy motherfucker & a retard. They’ve got me, so put your tongue in, grab your crayons and run like hell!
Simon H

22/04/2009
James has just said that he supports Chelsea. I have told him to find somewhere else to live. What the fuck are they teaching him at that school?
Simon H
Simon shows off his parenting skills.

26/04/2009
Hello! Michelle and I just wanted to say that we’ve had an amazing day, and it is because of you. We’re off early tomorrow, so see you soon!
Simon S
Looks like I might be Best Man next time around too…

30/04/2009
Summary: unbelievably hot, stunning views, cracking food, found a monkey on our balcony. Balcony spa is second home due to heat. Will see elephants + Phi Phi island soon. Also, I got shat on by a bat. See you soon!
Simon S
An update from the honeymoon.

03/05/2009
I blow goats.
Lucy H
Never leave your phone lying around.

07/05/2009
Captain Chaos has died.
Ben C
Dom Deluise -the man who played Captain Chaos in my childhood favourite film Stroker Ace dies, sad times.

07/05/2009
My sat nav is proper fucked, just typed Chelsea into my Tom Tom and it said 2 minutes from Rome…
Simon H
Another football-related text.

07/05/2009
First mad cow disease, then bird flu, now swine flu. It’s the end of the world. It’s Farmageddon.
Simon H

10/05/2009
My mum and dad cannot say enough good things about you. It’s getting embarrassing. I’ll have to change the subject.
Simon S
I’ve kept this one as a reminder.

30/05/2009
We are fielding xxxx
Nick M
Thank you. I didn’t even know you were playing cricket today. What relevance it has to me I don’t know. And no more kisses.

01/06/2009
Having a drink with Osama Bin Laden’s niece.
Alex MacH
ummmm…

02/06/2009
On Channel 5 there is a programme about one of my choppers.
Shaun H
Not the one that crashed I hope, Mr Helicopter Engineer?

03/06/2009
Absolutely delighted to let you know that Oliver Montgomery Cook was born last night at 11.01pm, weighing 7lb 14oz. Carole and Oliver doing really well.
Ben C
My nephew is born – the future of English football is safe!

18/06/2009
Just had a call from the BBC about Boris Johnson’s expenses. I gave nothing away, although I apparently appear on the MP’s expenses released this morning.
Simon S

18/06/2009
Holy God. I’m in the Evening Standard.
Simon S
Simon’s Boris-related experiences weren’t always positive.

25/06/2009
Michael Jackson’s died.
Simon S
Everyone will remember where they were the day Michael Jackson died. I was in the East Hill, Wandsworth in mid-conversation with my sister when this text came through. Unbelievable.

26/06/2009
Apparently it wasn’t a heart attack, they’re trying to blame it on the boogie.
Simon S
And it didn’t take long for the jokes to come through.

26/06/2009
What’s the difference between Michael Jackson and a carrier bag? One is white, plastic and dangerous for children. The other is dead.
Simon H
This doesn’t actually make sense.

26/06/2009
News reports that Michael Jackson is in emergency having a heart attack are false. He is in the children’s ward having a stroke.
Simon H

26/06/2009
Being 92% plastic, Michael Jackson is going to be melted down into Lego blocks so the kids can play with him for a change.
Simon H

29/06/2009
Mark Rogers is about to audition for X Factor.
Simon S
PLEASE get through, the hilarity would never cease.

30/06/2009
Shunta on the Shaun/Ellie break-up: “it’s the cat I feel sorry for in all this”.
Simon S

07/07/2009
Jehova’s witnesses have just been round and told me that the end of the world is coming.
Simon H
You’d think after getting it wrong so many times, they’d come up with something different.

09/07/2009
That is awesome. Go out with her and get married. That will never get boring or stop being funny! I don’t care if you don’t like her, do it for your friends.
Simon H
The news that I (Jack) was dating someone called Jill was met with some hilarity.

14/07/2009
Morning! I wrote you a text last night, but sent it by accident to my other London date! Was not the kind of text you wanted to send to the wrong person! He was my non-Match date, so not too amused I was seeing other people I think! Oh well, one less competition! x
Mel M
Mel gets our relationship off to an amusing start. Although not if you’re the other date…

14/07/2009
You’re on BBC2 at seven.
Simon S
My Ben Fogle lookalikiness was annoying at times.

14/07/2009
On Thin Ice. Ben Fogle undergoes course of treatment for a lethal tropical illness.
Simon S

27/07/2009
Highly amused to see you’ve ruined both Shaun and Sophie’s upcoming plans for Vinopolis.
Simon S
I publicised my complaint letter to Vinopolis…

27/07/2009
Check out the ‘geek bird’ on University Challenge. Hot!
Paul T
Paul proves once and for all that he has an overactive labedo.

02/08/2009
Baby. Ruth. Baby. Ruth.
Sophie C
Sophie quotes from The Goonies.

05/08/2009
I’ve just heard Steven Hawking has fallen in love with a new woman. She must have pushed all the right buttons.
Simon S

07/08/2009
A woman’s poem:
Before I lay me down to sleep, I pray for a man who’s not a creep, one who’s handsome, smart and strong. One who loves to listen long, one who thinks before he speaks, one who’ll call, not wait for weeks. I pray he’s rich and self-employed and when I spend, won’t get annoyed. Pull out my chair and hold my hand. Massage my feet and help me stand.

A man’s poem:
I pray for a deaf mute gymnast nymphomaniac with big tits, owns a pub on a golf course. This doesn’t even rhyme but who cares, poetry’s for wankers.
Shaun H
Lovely.

31/08/2009
Offside rule? I don’t know what that is. I hate snooker.
Shaun H

04/09/2009
Did you hear about the dwarf psychic who’s recently escaped from prison? Police are looking for a small medium at large.
Shaun H

05/09/2009
She had to type in her number as I had lost the ability to use my hands. Evidently the bar girl made us drink water as we were too pissed!
Chris M
Pulling techniques were not Chris’s forté.

05/09/2009
Serena has called her vibrator Jack.
Dee M
I have never even met Serena…

07/09/2009
I think our cleaner may have left the country.
Dee M
Turns out she had.

24/09/2009
I have been trying to convince James that it won’t ne long until his baby legs fall off.
Simon H
Once more Simon displays his parenting skills.

26/09/2009
Flubbered.
Simon S
?

27/09/2009
I have a wife but ignore her during races.
Simon S
Nothing gets in the way of F1.

02/10/2009
Next time you’re in Putney shopping, make sure you go into Topman just to check out the blonde. Stunning!
Paul T
Once again Paul’s labedo gets the better of him.

04/10/2009
Jenson Button overtook Barrichello using flippers, Alonso sneezed on the final bend and crashed, and Schumacher made a surprise return in a tutu. You missed a great race.
Simon S
My request for a race synopsis was ridiculed.

09/10/2009
Explosion at a pie factory in Huddersfield. 3.1415927 dead.
Simon S

15/10/2009
Oh my word, Steven Gerrard just flashed me for about 3 mins from his hotel room across from my office. No word of a lie, he opened the curtains and was doing silly poses in his pants – at first I thought it was just some weirdo, until someone behind me screamed out Gerrard. Ha ha ha!
Simon H

23/10/2009
Man: Doctor, doctor, I keep dreaming about my eyes changing colour. Doctor: don’t worry, it’s just a pigment of your imagination.
Simon S

28/10/2009
Oh my god. I almost got arrested! Had 3 security guards escorting me out of the Leeds shopping centre! Not cut out for this guerrilla marketing malarky! x
Mel M

31/10/2009
Sink plungers are not easy to wrap.
Simon S

06/11/2009
Quack.
Shaun H

24/11/2009
A blonde was sitting on the train reading the newspaper. The headline blared “12 Brazilian soldiers killed.” She shook her head at the sad news, then turned to the stranger sitting next to her and asked …”wow, that really is sad. How many is a Brazilian?”
Simon H

10/12/2009
I’m sat under a Royal Navy helicopter with the top half of my torso through a hole which I’m sure is slightly smaller than the top half of my torso. I want to be in the pub.
Shaun H

16/12/2009
What a waste of money! I’ve just spend £25 on “Tiger, my favourite 18 holes” and it turned out to be a bloody golf DVD!
Simon H

25/12/2009
Merry Christmas fuck face.
Robin V
Same to you…

31/12/2009
I blow goats.
Simon S
Never leave your phone lying around.

Text Archive 2008 completed

March 1st, 2010 Posted in Text Archive | No Comments »

After a laborious, repetitive, code-filled afternoon of copy and paste, the Text Archive from 2008 (yes, 2008) is now complete.

See it in all its glory right here.

New Year Objectives 2010 – February update

March 1st, 2010 Posted in Personal Events | No Comments »

Objectives

- update this website at least 83 times (50 for 2010 plus 33 not completed in 2009)
: 4 posts so far in 2010 (not going too well is it)

- redesign this website
: ACHIEVED (the Facebook status works again and the naff photos have been removed – hoorah!)

- read at least 12 books
: 4 so far in 2010
[Kathy Reichs - Break No Bones]
[Harlan Coben - Just One Look]
[Jonathan Hayes - Precious Blood]
[Anthony Bourke & John Rendall - A Lion Called Christian]

- work out and type up at least 21 (15 for 2010 plus 6 not completed in 2009) guitar tabs
: 4 so far in 2010
[Bon Jovi - In These Arms]
[The Eagles - Desperado]
[Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out]
[Phil Medley & Bert Russell - Twist & Shout]

- buy a new computer
- buy a house/flat
- give up alcohol until after the London Marathon: FAILED (ridiculous objective!)
- complete the London Marathon
- sort out my eczema
- sell a t-shirt
- have a holiday abroad
- go to the Science Museum
- go to the Natural History Museum
- go to the Tower of London
- go to Madame Tussauds
- go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum
- organise a university reunion

New Year Objectives 2010 – January update

February 11th, 2010 Posted in Personal Events | 1 Comment »

Objectives

- update this website at least 83 times (50 for 2010 plus 33 not completed in 2009)
: 3 posts so far in 2010

- redesign this website
: ACHIEVED (the Facebook status works again and the naff photos have been removed – hoorah!)

- read at least 12 books
: 3 so far in 2010
[Harlan Coben - Just One Look]
[Jonathan Hayes - Precious Blood]
[Anthony Bourke & John Rendall - A Lion Called Christian]

- work out and type up at least 21 (15 for 2010 plus 6 not completed in 2009) guitar tabs
: 4 so far in 2010
[Bon Jovi - In These Arms]
[The Eagles - Desperado]
[Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out]
[Phil Medley & Bert Russell - Twist & Shout]

- buy a new computer
- buy a house/flat
- give up alcohol until after the London Marathon (maximum one pint per day allowed!)
: FAILED (ridiculous objective!)

- complete the London Marathon
- sort out my eczema
- sell a t-shirt
- have a holiday abroad
- go to the Science Museum
- go to the Natural History Museum
- go to the Tower of London
- go to Madame Tussauds
- go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum
- organise a university reunion

Weight For It

January 25th, 2010 Posted in Links | 1 Comment »

This pretty much sums up my sense of humour:

http://failblog.org/2010/01/22/interruption-win/

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS 2010

January 1st, 2010 Posted in Personal Events | No Comments »

Here are my resolutions and objectives for 2010:

Resolutions
- do fewer hours at work
- cut down on junk food
- be more selfish and learn to say no more often

Objectives
- update this website at least 83 times (50 for 2010 plus 33 not completed in 2009)
- redesign this website
- read at least 12 books
- work out and type up at least 21 (15 for 2010 plus 6 not completed in 2009) guitar tabs
- buy a new computer
- buy a house/flat
- give up alcohol until after the London Marathon (maximum one pint per day allowed!)
- complete the London Marathon
- sort out my eczema
- sell a t-shirt
- have a holiday abroad
- go to the Science Museum
- go to the Natural History Museum
- go to the Tower of London
- go to Madame Tussauds
- go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum
- organise a university reunion

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS 2009 END OF YEAR RESULTS

January 1st, 2010 Posted in Personal Events | No Comments »

So 2009 is over.  Finished.  Gone.  Can’t get it back.  This time last year I vowed to change the way I live a little, doing more things with my life and leading a better life for it, theoretically.

I was supposed to update you every month to let you know how it was going, but at that I failed.  And, as you’re about to find out, updating this website wasn’t the only thing I failed at, but I pledge that everything I failed at, I will add on to my objectives/resolutions for 2010.
 
Without further ado, here are the results…
 
- update this website at least 50 times
: FAILED – 2009 total: 17
 
- read at least 12 books
: ACHIEVED! – 2009 total: 24
[John Niven - Kill Your Friends: 7/10]
[Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon: 7/10]
[Tess Gerritsen - The Apprentice: 5/10]
[Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory: 7/10]
[Michael Byrnes - The Sacred Bones: 8/10]
[Harlan Coben - The Final Detail: 8/10]
[Jonathan Kellerman - Gone: 6/10]
[Jeffrey Deaver - Shallow Graves: 8/10]
[Christopher Pike - Die Softly: 7/10]
[Paul Jager - First-Time Buyer, First-Time Seller: 8/10]
[Melanie Bien - Buying & Selling A Home For Dummies: 8/10]
[Seth Godin - Permission Marketing: 9/10]
[Bill Nussey - The Quiet Revolution In Email Marketing: 8/10]
[Dave Chaffey - Total Email Marketing: 8/10]
[Harlan Coben - Deal Breaker: 7/10]
[Jeff Abbott - Run: 8/10]
[Simon Beckett - Written In Bone: 9/10]
[Stephen King - Cujo: 8/10]
[Sheila Quigley - Run For Home: 5/10]
[Sam Bourne - The Final Reckoning: 8/10]
[Jeffrey Deaver - Manhattan Is My Beat: 7/10]
[Nora Roberts - Glory In Death: 8/10]
[Jeffrey Deaver - The Sleeping Doll: 7/10]
[Jeff Abbott - Fear: 7/10]

- work out and type up at least 15 guitar tabs
: FAILED – 2009 total: 9
[U2 - One]
[Take That - Back For Good]
[Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb]
[Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here]
[Status Quo - Rock 'Til You Drop]
[Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me]
[Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire]
[Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody]
[Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah]

- buy a new computer: FAILED
- exercise at least twice a week: FAILED
- sell a t-shirt: FAILED
- give up BUYING crisps: ACHIEVED!
- have a holiday abroad: ACHIEVED!
- go to the Science Museum: FAILED
- go to the Natural History Museum: FAILED
- go to the Tower of London: FAILED
- go to Madame Tussauds: FAILED
- go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum: FAILED
- organise a university reunion: FAILED
- work-related objective: ACHIEVED!

Say ‘Frog’…

October 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

…volume required. Best not to watch it in the office either… Say ‘Frog’.

Piano Stairs

October 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Excellent viral video.  Think the Tom Hanks film ‘Big’ meets a human
behaviour experiment… watch here.

Crime Fighter Win

October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

The Failblog
is a wonderful thing. Every day it brightens my inbox with gifts of
human stupidity, total idiocy and, of course, those customary
‘faceplants’.

This morning was no exception, with security TV footage showing a bank
robber failing miserably thanks to the intervention of a brave, elder
gentleman. But the reason I watched it three times and guffawed each
and every time is down to detail. The bank robber is taken down and
is being ‘neutralised’ by three guys, yet the woman feels it necessary
to saunter up and offer a little kick in his direction. Utterly
hilarious.

Watch it here.