At Least They Were From A Northern Culture

Ridiculously funny this posting ain’t, but tonight’s E&E letter page has brought a triplet of humorous correspondence, one of which I would go as far to say is a bit of a classic in the making.

But let’s start with TA Griffin, or TAG, as I like to call him. Now TAG is renowned by E&E readers as being the most prolific of all writers. Not only is he relentless in his output, but he also tries to be as controversial as possible. However, in the past month, things haven’t been the same. TAG’s son Bobby, or Bill or Ben or something, ran away from the SAS because he didn’t agree with the Iraq thing. Thus TAG’s letters have been of the anti-war twist. This just hasn’t suited TAG: you can tell that he doesn’t like being on the side of the brown-cord-wearing, flower-in-the-hair types. Thankfully tonight the real TAG has stood up with a vitriolic attack on one of the greatest evils of the high street…Oxfam.

Apparently it is a non-profit organisation [but] why else do they do it? Getting first choice for the first books [and] Oh yes, to send the money to the poor in Africa.

Good to have him back.

A second little piece from M Golby.

Are There New Cycling Laws?

I see Charlie of BBC’s Casualty advises his son to ride his bike on the pavement. Is this now official and for all age groups?

Come to that, what about lights after dark? I think Exeter pedestrians should be told.

You wot? I’m not sure if this ironic or sarcastic or something, but I am not getting it. I haven’t seen Casualty for a while, but I thought it was a hospital drama rather than a Green Cross code information service.

But in my opinion this final offering is a bit of joined up thinking in a true E&E stylee.

A Family Fortunes question: name some of the problems facing the UK youth.

Survey says: Junk food. That’s got to be up there. Unplanned pregnancy. Yep. White bread, not so sure, but maybe in at no. 6.

But how to control these rampant problems. Sandy Wilson may have just hit on something:

Why don’t we just ban white bread, why do we need it?

An alternative would be to put the active ingredient of the contraceptive pill in white bread and maybe other junk food so that unplanned pregnancies don’t happen.

Now Sandy obviously has something against white bread and the people that eat it (the attack on junk food is obviously just to win over the waverers) so by putting the pill into it she can hopefully wipe-out the white-bread eating generations. You saw it here first.