FABULOUS FIRST EDITION!

(Morning Edition)


LB Tabloid Launches today!

The cover of the early edition

Although I haven't quite decided on the format yet. The LB Tabloid is for those days when I haven't got time to give a more in-depth mulling over to my thoughts, or when I've just thought about a few things but only managed to squeeze a paragraph or so about them out of the damp sponge of my tiny brain. Publishing the LB Tabloid might go daily, weekly, or just as the mood takes me, or it might just never appear again...

We shall just have to see.

To be perfectly honest, it's more than likely to just end up pretty much the same as those Dark Tales from Lesser Blogfordshire anyway,  but in a pithier, more 'bite sized' format. Hey, I'm not dumbing things down here, I think that we're all cute enough and cuddly enough, sorry, big enough and brave enough to accept that we all have busy lives and sometimes we need things to be just that bit more 'convenient'.

Massively dreary and over-written content will still be available on a regular basis over in that dark corner of Lesser Blogfordshire, but meanwhile, over here we'll try to have just a bit more of that strangely elusive thing you earth-people like to call 'fun'.

Anyway, to start us all off, here are some recent thoughts for your consideration:

WHAT IS THE POINT OF 'LIMITED EDITION'
FOOD AND DRINK?

I've noticed rather a lot of adverts recently for food and drink where a particular flavour of biscuity snack or meat product in a bun or even a type of alcopop-style beverage is only going to be available for a limited amount of time. Now I'm no marketing expert, but what is the point of that? Why would you want to build up a certain amount of demand for a flavoursome product and then go and snatch it away from your customers a mere few weeks later?

EVERYTHING IS "JUST" HUNDREDS OF POUNDS
THESE DAYS

And whilst we're on the subject of advertising, this mad old world continues to bombard our tiny minds with endless tempting electronic treats for gaming equipment and telephones which are not only pointless and unnecessary and a symbol of a society that's much too interested in the acquisition of "stuff", but it's also being constantly touted as being "only" £300, or "just" £500, or a "bargain" at £200. Don't these people know there's a credit crunch on? Since when did those sorts of numbers become small change anyway? Not in my house, they're not (as he stuffs a hand down the back of the sofa looking for that last elusive 50p so that he can pay the milkman).

THAT BBC TV LICENCE AD

"You're busy" it says, so the dog gets the baby food and the baby gets the dog food. How flippin' hilarious! But she's not too busy to accept the phone call from her mate and sit there yapping away to her, is she, eh? There's no "I'm a responsible parent, I'll talk to you later" stuff going on in her world of obviously mixed priorities, is there?

Mixed messages, BBC! How about just putting up the caption "You're being patronised" instead?

M.E. M.E. M.E.

Last week it was M.E. Awareness day, and because I was aware that it was M.E. Awareness day, I decided to ring my friend who suffers from M.E. and make her aware that I was aware that it was M.E. Awareness day, but, as is the nature of these conversations, as you’ll no doubt already be aware, I forgot to mention it and so she remained unaware that I was aware that it was M.E. awareness day and so she may very well have remained unaware that it was M.E. Awareness day herself.

WERE 'THE WURZELS' REALLY  'THE GOODIES' IN DISGUISE?

Watching 'Top of the Pops 1976' on BBC4 this week I couldn't help but notice that those kings of the combine-harvester based novelty pop song "The Wurzels" consisted of (from the left) a short comedy performer taking his music far too seriously, a tall, slightly embarrassed looking one in the middle and a wacky blond one on the right. Strangely their arch-rivals and funky gibbon wrangling novelty pop song performers "The Goodies" had precisely the same line-up. C'mon guys, it's been 35 years now, perhaps the time has come to 'fess up...? (Coo! Look at me with all the fancy street lingo...)

HERE'S WHAT YOU MISSED OVER IN LESSER BLOGFORDSHIRE THIS WEEK:

The Lesser Blogfordshire Eurovision Song Contest 2011 preview:
http://m-a-w-h.blogspot.com/2011/05/eurovisions.html

...and a report on the aftermath:
http://m-a-w-h.blogspot.com/2011/05/random-eurovision-jottings.html

A three-part special report expose on the evils of the spoiler:
http://m-a-w-h.blogspot.com/2011/05/spoiler-alert.html
http://m-a-w-h.blogspot.com/2011/05/shhh-spoilers-part-one.html
http://m-a-w-h.blogspot.com/2011/05/shhh-spoilers-part-two.html

When "Blogger" and computers fail:
http://m-a-w-h.blogspot.com/2011/05/technofear-and-transference.html

...and we enter the private world of Holmes and Watson in the exclusive:
http://m-a-w-h.blogspot.com/2011/05/lost-watson.html

(just click on the links)

...AND IN THE LESS THAN GREAT TRADITION OF THE TABLOID, HERE'S A PICTURE OF A TOPLESS MODEL...

Airfix Saturn V with top missing