Fantastic Headlines

[Barman]

Spacecraft Could Crash Land On M4 Corridor

Quite a dramatic headline, but the report on the telly said debris could land anywhere between the South of England and the Falkland Isles 

Oh, and the report in the link says that that distance is 200km, unless they mean a 12,000 x 200km area, but I suppose the M4 corridor makes for a dramatic headline    

If I go for a walk, I shall keep me ears and eyes open, and take a brolly

Slough! 

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

Spacecraft Could Crash Land On M4 Corridor

Quite a dramatic headline, but the report on the telly said debris could land anywhere between the South of England and the Falkland Isles 

Oh, and the report in the link says that that distance is 200km, unless they mean a 12,000 x 200km area, but I suppose the M4 corridor makes for a dramatic headline    

If I go for a walk, I shall keep me ears and eyes open, and take a brolly

Slough! 

Do we take that to mean that you believe that the spacecraft in question is sloughing off it's outer surface as it descends?   

[Snoopy]

Spacecraft Could Crash Land On M4 Corridor

Quite a dramatic headline, but the report on the telly said debris could land anywhere between the South of England and the Falkland Isles 

Oh, and the report in the link says that that distance is 200km, unless they mean a 12,000 x 200km area, but I suppose the M4 corridor makes for a dramatic headline    

If I go for a walk, I shall keep me ears and eyes open, and take a brolly

Slough! 

Do we take that to mean that you believe that the spacecraft in question is sloughing off it's outer surface as it descends?   

 


My thoughts, however, flew to Betjeman:

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

[Nick]

its 

[Snoopy]

its 

Don't look at me ~ a ghost dun it

[Miss Demeanour]

A poor workman always blames his ghouls 

[Nick]

 

[Snoopy]

There's nowt wrong wiv my goolies. 

[Darwins Selection]

There's nowt wrong wiv my goolies. 

Often licked, rarely beaten. 

[Snoopy]

There's nowt wrong wiv my goolies. 

Often licked, rarely beaten. 

A little chewed from time to time perhaps.

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

There's nowt wrong wiv my goolies. 

Often licked, rarely beaten. 

 

[Miss Demeanour]

Deffo wasn't the Captain's fault then 

[Nick]

Maybe he let BM have a go on the steering wheel like 

[Darwins Selection]

Those Italian boats are difficult to steer in reverse.

[Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits)]

Deffo wasn't the Captain's fault then 

Two minor points if I may:

1. That's not the M4.    And . .

2. The thing that came unstuck was not a Spaceship!