4 posts tagged “scotland”

Time elapsed for the compose window to load: four hours. I have just started another Vox account and the compose window comes up instantly (I will not blog from there as I refuse to use noms de plume). Someone at Vox does not want me blogging.
   Here’s something I did want to share, now that I remember. However, my commentary is hardly going to be fresh since Vox never loads on demand any more. Enjoy it for what it is. It was, to me, the funniest scene in So I Married an Axe Murderer. Quite clearly, Mike Myers, who co-wrote the movie, based the parents in the movie on his real-life ones.

Someone at Jaguar’s ad agency in London sent me a link to this today: an interview with Jaguar design boss, Ian Callum, on the next XJ saloon.

This may well be the most anticipated saloon launch this year. I can’t wait to see what the new car looks like, especially as it will be very different to the Arthur Daley–John Prescott type.

I rather liked Craig Ferguson’s jokes at last year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It was a shame that his fellow media colleagues didn’t know a good laugh when they heard it.
   I have found this with political humour in the United States. I have had political jokes fall well flat, and this is due to the politeness of Americans. Democrats don’t want to offend Republicans in the audience, and Republicans don’t want to offend Democrats in the audience. Net result: little laughter.
   The only times one can get a bit more extreme is in areas which are staunchly one way or another (e.g. then-Sen. Obama at the DNC and Gov. Palin at the RNC).
   He dissed The New York Times as much as Fox News, Vice-President Cheney as much as Sen. Clinton, Bill O’Reilly as much as Keith Olbermann, and he even had a go with the media in general. However, I loved his closing which was a great way to bring everyone together. Also notice that Mr Ferguson got a standing ovation.

This was made before the US presidential election, but Craig Ferguson’s sentiments about the media remain valid. And we shouldn’t need to be “sold” the fact that we live in democracies.