Author Archives: odeboyz

Light Bulbs

Posted on February 7, 2022 by odeboyz

“I’m gonna get the day off, I’ll pretend I’m mad!” Climbing up onto the rafters Paddy hung upside down shouting, “I’m a lightbulb, I’m a lightbulb.” Murphy was amazed when the foreman shouted: “Paddy, go home. You’re mad.” Paddy promptly … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Robbie Morrison ~ Edge of the grave (2021)

Posted on February 7, 2022 by odeboyz

Glasgow’s brutal history was ‘created’ by endemic poverty and squalor which brutalised the population in the period 1900-32. The context of hard physical work and grinding poverty led to the infamous Glasgow ‘Razor’ gangs. The outbreak of the First World … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan: Liverpool 1966

Posted on February 5, 2022 by odeboyz
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A very expensive parrot

Posted on February 3, 2022 by odeboyz

Jim went to an auction for rare birds to bid for an exotic parrot. In the excitement he lost his sense of judgment and he bid far more than the intended. Jim won with a huge bid and the parrot … Continue reading →

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The malign Dostoevsky

Posted on February 3, 2022 by odeboyz

Dostoevsky’s sigh came from deep inside His Faustian soul. It unleashed Stories of moral degradation. Stories which were cunningly seductive. They soaked Europe’s bourgeoisie with Learned despair and nihilism Destroying their progressive world with Festering rancid introspection Dostoevsky’s sigh spread … Continue reading →

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A Morecambe and Wise Quip

Posted on January 30, 2022 by odeboyz

Eric: Have you had a bath Ernie? Ernie: Yes I have. Eric: I didn’t realise it was September already.  

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Things I love: Genius

Posted on January 27, 2022 by odeboyz
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Social Class and Test Cricket

Posted on January 27, 2022 by odeboyz

“We looked through all the specialist batters that debuted (for England in Tests) since 2011, and we found that 95 per cent of them have been white, 77 per cent of them have come from private schools, only 30 per … Continue reading →

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World’s longest lasting tyre fire

Posted on January 24, 2022 by odeboyz

Approximately 7 million tires resting in situ at a storage facility in Rhinehart, northern Virginia, caught fire in October of 1983. At the fire’s maximum extent, a black plume of smoke rose 3,000 feet into the air and spread downwind … Continue reading →

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George Osborne, The Age of Austerity and Children

Posted on January 24, 2022 by odeboyz

Osborne, the chancellor, caused alarm and anger when he talked about the unfairness of a “shift-worker” leaving for work early in the morning who looks up and sees “the closed blinds of their next door neighbour sleeping off a life … Continue reading →

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