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Top Tip

Pretend Viz is still a funny ground breaking magazine. Simply take out the inside of one of the original 1980s comics and place it inside a recent 2010 cover.

Men, don't waste money on expensive Fleshlights, simply take the batteries out of an old flashlight and f**k that instead.

Quote: Norman Wisdom @ May 18 2010, 11:39 AM BST

Pretend Viz is still a funny ground breaking magazine. Simply take out the inside of one of the original 1980s comics and place it inside a recent 2010 cover.

That - or something very close to it (involving using crayons to change the covers) - is an actual Top Tip from Viz.

Quote: David Bussell @ May 18 2010, 11:42 AM BST

Men, don't waste money on expensive Fleshlights, simply take the batteries out of an old flashlight and f**k that instead.

After stuffing it with warm liver surely?

Quote: Kenneth @ May 18 2010, 11:44 AM BST

That - or something very close to it (involving using crayons to change the covers) - is an actual Top Tip from Viz.

Yeah, I've read one very similar I'm sure.

Quote: sootyj @ May 18 2010, 11:47 AM BST

After stuffing it with warm liver surely?

Ah, an aficianado...

Quote: Kenneth @ May 18 2010, 11:44 AM BST

That - or something very close to it (involving using crayons to change the covers) - is an actual Top Tip from Viz.

Oops, not quite. The Top Tip I was thinking of is actually: Save buying Viz each month by simply changing the colour of the last issue's cover using a wax crayon. Then simply re-read the same old jokes.

Back in the day when Viz covers were just one colour and black and white. Going glossy and stuffing the mag full of pathetic ads for ringtones and sex-talk lines has made it much less appealing.

Convince people your office is vast by buying a mini desktop Henry hoover and putting it in a corner of the room.

Fool people into thinking you have an expensive Blackberry by signing off all your emails 'sent from my Blackberry'.

Housewives! Avoid spending money on petrol by using virtually every drop of fuel in the tank by the time your husband next needs to use the car.

Quote: Kenneth @ May 18 2010, 11:56 AM BST

Oops, not quite. The Top Tip I was thinking of is actually: Save buying Viz each month by simply changing the colour of the last issue's cover using a wax crayon. Then simply re-read the same old jokes.

Back in the day when Viz covers were just one colour and black and white. Going glossy and stuffing the mag full of pathetic ads for ringtones and sex-talk lines has made it much less appealing.

Viz is funnier now than it ever was in the eighties IMO. The jokes are far cleverer and the strips much better written.

My theory is that it's just nostalgia that makes people say it's not as funny as it used to be. Although I do agree it could do with less phone sex line ads. Who uses those anyway? With all the free filth on the internet who wants to ring some £1.50 per minute number featuring a pre-recorded old slapper saying "Mmmm, my melons, suck my melons, my big melons".

Quote: sootyj @ May 18 2010, 11:58 AM BST

Convince people your office is vast by buying a mini desktop Henry hoover and putting it in a corner of the room.

Laughing out loud

Quote: Lee Henman @ May 18 2010, 6:25 PM BST

...I do agree it could do with less phone sex line ads. Who uses those anyway? With all the free filth on the internet who wants to ring some £1.50 per minute number featuring a pre-recorded old slapper saying "Mmmm, my melons, suck my melons, my big melons".

That seems a very detailed description of the service. You must have researched this topic thoroughly. :)

Quote: Lee Henman @ May 18 2010, 6:25 PM BST

who wants to ring some £1.50 per minute number featuring a pre-recorded old slapper saying "Mmmm, my melons, suck my melons, my big melons".

....I just came. :S

Quote: Tuumble @ May 18 2010, 2:53 PM BST

Housewives! Avoid spending money on petrol by using virtually every drop of fuel in the tank by the time your husband next needs to use the car.

Hapless husbands avoid the expense of therapy or the custodial sentence from murdering your wife. By venting your every frustration on a comedy site popular with socially unskilled sofa masturbators and obsessive borderline personality types.

Quote: Tuumble @ May 18 2010, 10:30 PM BST

That seems a very detailed description of the service. You must have researched this topic thoroughly. :)

Errr >_<

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