As the Americans are pinned down in the desert by film crews, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives an exclusive interview to Katie Couric. 'I always wanted,' he explains, 'to be Noel Coward or, failing that, Cary Grant, but I lacked the skin tone, figure, talent, charm, wit and pronounceable name. My struggle has been to come to terms with the fact that all I can do is irritate Americans.' With its entire population now relocated to Peebles, Romania is declared a World Heritage Site. President Putin cuts gas supplies to Falkirk in protest against the American attack and, on a visit to London, tries out an exciting new poison on Prime Minister Reid. Its only effect is to make him slightly less Scottish. George Best rises from the grave to make a moving appeal to the people of Ulster. 'You must get drunk and shoot at each other," he says. Sadly, this changes nothing. Kim Jong-Il tells Al-Jazeera he always wanted to be James Stewart. To universal disgust, Tony Blair calls for a new realism. 'We must engage with both Manchester United AND Chelsea,' he says. Cherie buys Arsenal and appeals for calm. And, finally, following the worldwide success of his book How to Live Forever or Die Trying, Bryan Appleyard announces the first volume of his memoirs, The Life of Bryan: I Am Born. He issues an appeal for calm.
Next: February.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
That final one is ill-conceived.
ReplyDeleteJose Mourinho proclaims himself fallible. Roman Abromavich declares him the real pope. Jose Mourinho declares himself infallible.
ReplyDeleteRichard Dawkins suffers a nervous breakdown during a tough grilling on Parkinson. He soon enters a nunnery and emerges one month later, calls a press conference and declares himself to be "a new woman." He disowns his own books, calling them the work of "a silly bastard", takes a vow of silence and re-enters the nunnery. He is later to become the best-selling author of a children's series, Mrs Nun. A film is in the pipeline rumoured to be starring Dick Cheney as Mrs Nun.
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