Bigger Piece
Thursday 5th October 2017 9:56pm [Edited]
Cockermouth
137 posts
This week's bin-fodder:
BREAKING NEWS:
1. As two new Banksy works appeared near London's Barbican, former UN graffiti secretary, Bank-Si Moon, said "I might paint on walls, but Trump and Brexit, yeah?"
2. Yesterday at the Tory party conference, Theresa May reminded delegates of the government's commitment to combatting knife crime, especially in the back.
3. After citing a Kipling poem in Myanmar, Boris Johnson quoted Betjeman in Slough today and is expected to read from Sylvia Plath when he addresses British Gas bosses tomorrow.
NUMBER CRUNCHING
1. Three: The number of Kardashian sisters reported to be pregnant.
Zero: The amount of rubber found amid all that silicon.
2. Two: The number of oversized guns that fell on shock-rocker Marilyn Manson.
One: lesson learned about the centre of gravity and climbing stage props, so please stop ribbing him.
3. Five hundred million: The global box-office takings, in dollars, of Stephen King's It.
Two: The spare sets of underwear cinema-goers are advised to take to this scary film.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
GRAMS: NIRVANA: SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
FX: SNIFFING
ANDY: Nope, not these ...
VIV: What're you doing in the laundry basket?
FX: SNIFFING AND LAUNDRY RUMMAGING
ANDY: Trying to find a pair of pants ...
VIV: Pants? Why do you want pants? Oh, well look, never mind, I'll just design a new pair and make them for you.
(beat)
Let me give you a quick measure.
ANDY: Ooh! The metal on the end of your tape measure's a bit cold!
VIV: (mutters) Thirty four ... and that's, what ... eight ... no, let's say nine ...
FX: SCISSORS CUTTING MATERIAL
FX: SEWING MACHINE
VIV: Right, try these.
ANDY: Great, perfect fit ... oh that bit's a bit floppy
VIV: It's supposed to be! It's a man tube: it's my radical new design. Anyway, give me five hundred quid for your new Dame Vivien Westwood Designer underpants.
FX: COUNTNG PAPER MONEY
ANDY: ... four hundred, four-hundred; five hundred.
VIV: Anyway, why were you sniffing for clean undies? You should do what I do, and just wear your undies in the bath. I have a bath every week and do my smalls at the same time.
ANDY: I do usually, but I'm in a bit of a hurry and I'm not due another wash for thirty days.
VIV: Tell you what then, let's take put the sun roof down and drive through the carwash.
FX: HUGE FABRIC RIP
ENDS