Thursday, November 01, 2007

[blogfocus] bumper all saints day edition

This evening we have a round, even, seven bloggers strutting their stuff. But before that, if you want to see how to put together a real Blogfocus [or roundup in this case], then get over here when you're done [or even before, if you're so inclined].

1. Mr. Eugenides is just deciding how best to deal with James Higham’s moan about not connecting the dots – the cudgel or the headbutt.

2. Hercules gets straight down to the messy business of divorce:
Since the wife lost around 20 pounds she’s been gagging for it! The only reason he doesn’t want "it" is because he likes chubby sex!!!!

He also plans to make legal history by being the first person to cite a dietary product as the third party in divorce papers. And he intends to sue the tablet makers for causing the couple’s constant rows over sex.
4. Ordo gets straight down to Welsh politics:
El gobierno de la asamblea galesa - una coalición formada por el Partido Laborista de Gales y los nacionalistas de Plaid Cymru - acaba de nombrar Sir Emyr Jones Parry como presidente de la convención constitucional galesa. Dicha convención preparará un referéndum para aprobar la creación de un parlamento con plenos poderes legislativos, o sea, dar estos poderes a la asamblea y cambiar su titulo a "parlamento" (el edificio nuevo de la asamblea ya tiene el nombre de y Senedd, "el parlamento" en la habla galesa).
You might like to tackle Ordo on that one.

3. If Scottish politics and whips are your thing, then you can’t go past this blow-by-blow description by MacNumpty:
Anyway, MSPs had more to do on Thursday - eight questions were put to a vote, all non-binding, and there was a defeat for the Government in there. Angela Constance was still absent and probably just about to go into labour (that's childbirth, not the party), while John Farquhar Munro was also missing for asecond day, and Margo MacDonald reverted to form and gave the Chamber a miss.
5. Cassilis touches on the important topic of serial killers’ nicknames:
Serial killers have their own sub-genre of nicknames. From the well-known such as the 'Yorkshire Ripper', the 'Boston Strangler' and even the 'Moors Murderers' to the more obscure but wonderfully inventive 'Giggling Granny', 'Gorilla Killer' or 'Wolf Man' (what price the surname Lupo eh?) There are also a few standards in this genre - anyone with the loosest of medical connections who happens to kill can be labelled 'Angel of Death' and the use of any sort of ligature guarantees the 'strangler' tag even when is wasn't a particularly defining feature.
6. The full-bosomed Ruthie with the Zaftig figure does not like Anonymous:
Here's my observation about anonymous comments: generally, when a person disagrees with the premise of a post, dislikes the post's author, or just wants to be an ass, he or she will leave a cryptic anonymous comment. This is alternately annoying and amusing, because it's as though the person is saying: "I want to tell you you're wrong/stupid/whatever, but I'm not brave enough to leave my name or identify myself in anyway."
7. Finally, Marina has a bag with a difference:


8 comments:

  1. Yes, entertaining as always. I love that bag at the end!

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  2. Is Ordo's site about Basque politics or Welsh (as in GB) politics? It's written in Spanish and that fascinates me for some reason.

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  3. James you excell yourself- that picture of Mr E is comic genius- incidentally did you see that Matt had found Mr E was featured on some hospital trust website! Thanks for your comments on my roundup as well!

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  4. Great focus James, love the imminent headbutt photo. But the Spanish discussion of el gobierno de la asamblea galesa makes my head ache a bit. The trouble is knowing Italian helps me almost make sense of it but not quite.

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  5. Thank you - shall endeavour to continue to provide that which you like to see.

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  6. Matt - not sure - I thought it was unusual too.

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