I don't buy newspapers much or read them online. National and International events seem to reach me via TV/Radio etc. so it doesn't worry me much. However, I bought myself a paper today - The Telegraph. You see I will go to any lengths to kill of the readership of this blog (4999 visitors last month. It just couldn't quite get to 5000. Of course I know that 4998 are bots).
I'm off to Cornwall again at the weekend so I thought I'd bring some local news to you as well when I'm there. It's bound to be exciting like the article I read that said that when the grass is wet, the children at school traipse mud into the classrooms. Great stuff.
Today I bring you "Young men are brainwashed, says Muslim leader". No, really? And I thought they just sat alone in a room, considered life the universe and everything very rationally, tied 200lb of semtex to their belts and got on a crowded bus.
There's a superb quote from the Uncle of one of the 8 suspected terrorists that were arrested: "They are just regular guys. They are as British as they come. They don't even have beards.". He should be, ooooh I don't know, a Detective Inspector at least with that line of thinking.
Reminds me of the Billy Connolly joke about Cubans getting free beer, cigars, women etc. because they say they are one of Castro's men. A Scotsman sees this happening and tries it on at the off-licence and the shopkeeper says "You don't look like one of Castros men to me. They have saggy faces, beards and a big cigar sticking out of their mouths". So the Scotsman lifts up his kilt and says "Secret Service". Sorry.
Posted by grahame at April 1, 2004 12:46 PM | TrackBack