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Showing posts with label sliced bread. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Saving The World 998 Words At A Time.


Professor Stephen Hawkins hasn’t said much for a while. In fact the last thing I can find on the internet is dated all the back to September 2010!

For someone who it is claimed is the cleverest man in the world, he’s gone a bit shy with answers to the latest problems facing our species of late....

So in his absence I opt for myself to take on the mantel of world’s problem solver.

Any objections?

No?

Sweet...

Here goes then.


Problem one:    WAR – most clever bods and left wing thinkers will take great pleasure in moaning on that war is all about is greed and money and that the only way to stop war is stop the wicked governments and smash up a McDonald’s window to show your disdain for capitalism. That is rubbish. The thing that smashing windows and having a protest does is cause traffic delays and raise insurance premiums. Oh, and allow the police to practice kettling routines.

There really isn’t a problem with war. War is good for many reasons. It allows great leaps in science and medicine for example. The Second World War allowed for the creation of many things we take for granted today. Air travel, motorways, microwave ovens, great leaps in surgery and medicine as well. And let’s not forget all those brilliant war movies like The Eagle has landed, Shindlers List, Ghostbusters two and Apocalypse now to name but three and another one.

The real problem people have with war is the killing. The deaths of civilians and of soldiers. That’s the bad part and I tend to agree. But without soldiers there would be no war. So my solution to war is to stop the soldiers fighting. But how to do this...
 
It’s very simple really. All you need are three things 1, a war zone. 
2 some soldiers fighting each other. 
3 a burger van.

Here’s how it works.


Wait for a couple of days of fighting (no one really gets near each other to do any serious damage in the few couple of days) until the round of rations have been eaten. Then simply parachute a couple of burger vans into “no-man’s land” and set up shop. But not burgers. THAT WOULDN’T WORK AT ALL. Instead start making bacon butties!

Nobody can resist the sweet fleshy smell of bacon butties – even vegetarians.
 



Put up a sign that says FREE BACON BUTTIES and watch ‘em flock in.



But Bumferry you damned fool what about people who don’t eat pork like Muslims and all that?
And there you have a good point were it not for the fact that I had already thought of that.
Simply make toast!

admit it - you want one!


Thick cut, heavily butter toast is the ultimate weapon to stop anybody in their tracks. Especially if it’s cut diagonally. For some reason toast cut into triangles tastes better.

As the soldiers for each side converge at the burger van, offer politely to take their rifles and guns away so they can take advantage of the tea and coffee on offer as well as hey presto! War over.
Piece of piss!






Problem two:    FAMINE –

Those images we have all seen on TV of starving kids and families in faraway lands can often bring a lump to your throat. But over the years since those first reports from Nicholas Whitchell in the 1980’s of Africa in famine and the resulting Live Aid events, we have all become a little immune to the horrors of others.

Charity events don’t quite cut it anymore. We can’t be bothered to give money. Not even red nose day or comic relief does it for me anymore. The promise of two bit comic’s dicking around until 2 am isn’t enough for me to put my hand in my pocket.

How to get around this problem?

Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

First some facts. Africa is a hot sunny country. That’s why it has so many droughts and therefore famines... so what to do?

The world monetary fund could give the continent of Africa an interest free loan to secure money to build the world’s biggest solar panel array. The people of Africa can be employed to “farm” fields of solar panels, keeping them clean and cool (solar panels only work under certain temperatures and stop working if they get too hot, which is a bit ironic!)

The energy made by the solar panel can be stored and sold to other countries around the world, in the same way oil is now. The people of Africa can get funding and corporate partnerships with other countries such as the USA UK etc to build the parts, train farmers build pipe line for water administrate the workforce and so on. Africa becomes a fully functioning power house for the world. The economy in each member state of Africa become richer over time with the guidance of those countries better suited and more used to running huge businesses.

The result is that the whole world has cheap renewable clean energy, Africa can afford to buy in food it needs and everyone agrees to make me king!

Get-in!!

Problem three: poverty/world economy

See above.

That last idea was bloody brilliant I’m taking the rest of the day off!

Problem four: misc.

Most problems can be resolved very easily by simply ignoring them. Scary dogs, cancer, ghosts etc. Just ignore them and they will get bored of you if you don’t react.

Then again I might be wrong. I’m not perfect. I’m certainly no Stephen Hawking.

Speaking of which if he wants to take back what he once said about my mum I would be willing to listen to what he has to say, other that I have no interest in his lies and hateful comments.

You really don’t know some people until you see their bad side.

That’s enough from me.

I’ve done enough for you lot already. What do want? BLOOD???

LOTS OF LOVE Bumferry Hogart (saviour of the world)




Carry on.

Sunday, 19 June 2011

998 words - back by popular demand

The greatest thing since sliced bread.

That’s a phrase as old as sliced bread is... I’d imagine, and I feel that it’s had it’s time now.

Most of us are now living quite comfortably in the 21st century and have been doing so for at least 10 maybe even 11 years for some.


I don’t know anybody who regularly buys an unsliced loaf.

Occasionally you may buy a crusty loaf for when it’s a nice hot day and you a want a picnic, but crusty bread isn’t your everyday bread.
We simply don’t have enough time in the day to cut our own bread. We have too many time saving devices to turn on or turn off or just find the bloody thing to worry about stabbing bread to bits.

We want it pre cut to specific widths and that is what we get.


Thin sliced, thick cut or doorstoppers! They’re all available and more.

Pop into your local bakers and you can buy an unsliced loaf that they will cut to any desired distance you wish.

But bread, be it sliced or not, is not really the subject I wish to waffle on about today.

Instead I wish to offer you something.

A free gift if you will.

It during the small hours of the evening that a thought pooped into my head and it went a little something like this –

“Is there something BETTER than sliced bread?”

Which lead to me ponder whether or not the turn of phrase we use today and have done so for countless years, is out of date and stale, if you will excuse the pun..
I ran with this train of thought for a while and summarised that rather than use the old, worn out gag of what was the best thing BEFORE sliced bread, we should look to the future via the medium of imagination and see what the 21st century can add to that little phrase.


After cafeful deliberation and chin stroking i came to this conclusion -

My suggestion is to replace “sliced bread” with the following.... “That’s the best thing since cut and paste.”

I think it adds a certain modern edge to the saying.

It adds a sparkle and jus de Orange where it is most needed.

BEST THING SINCE CUT AND PASTE.


It grows on you.

Say it out loud yourself.

Take your time and ingest each word.

Let it soak into the back of your throat and infest your mind.

Allow the subtlety of its nuances to carry you on a journey of new horizons.
Bliss.

Next time you are talking at conversation with somebody try and slip it into conversation without making a fuss of it. Allow it to hang there in the listener’s subconscious as a woodpecker might lay its eggs in another birds nest.
Free your friends and family of the burned and shame of having to drag the same old rubbish colloquialisms and turn of phrases by offering them a new one.


Perfect for father’s day

Ideal for mothering Sunday and/or Easter.

The kids will just adore you at Christmas with this genuine gift that really does keep on giving.

And what’s more – I’m giving it away absolutely FREE.

GRATIS!


I don’t want you send me a cheque or postal order for the sum £7.55 (inc. VAT)

I don’t even want to know your bank details.

That’s how great I am.

All I ask is that each time you say “the best thing since cut and paste” you think of old Bumferry sat in his caravan.
Slightly lesser off than you.

With no tele.

I’m not asking for charity no sir-ee.

I do not want you to feel that YOU HAVE TO SEND ME MONEY!

That is the last thing I want you think of me – sat here on a very uncomfortable cushion, with only a poorly dog for company.
He’s okay.... not dying or anything, which is good ‘cos the vets’ bills are SO expensive these days.

No no no. I don’t want any money off anyone.


Please – feel free to use the phrase that I INVENTED free of charge without any back lash from me or my legal team.

It’s fine.

Honestly. Go ahead. Carry on as you were.



Ungrateful sods.....


However.

If you were so inclined as to offer me anything I would ask only this. Send your people my way.
Tell them where you got such a crazy yet funky proverb. Don’t be shy.
You could say something like “...oh that thing? I read it somewhere...um...oh Bumferry did it. That guy is amazing. With his giant chicken and everything.” You could say that. Or something similar.
I’m so lonely.

Erm...



Back to the point in hand.

This phrase that I have invented and is nowhere else on the internet – so don’t bother looking for it anywhere – is now yours (although it is still mine and I can take it back at any time I choose).

And so it after allowing you good people into the small and very exclusive club I now ask of each of you to be upstanding and repeat the following:
“I here by lay claim to uphold the following phrase without objection from anybody else here present and do solemnly swear to safeguard its meaning and ensure that it is not mistreated any in way for fear of receiving one of Bumferry Hogarts patented Chinese-burns. So help me .”

Please cut and paste the above promise and post as comment. This will sanctify your legal right to use the phrase everywhere and anywhere.

By the time this goes to print I have already received at least one celebrity endorsement:

“If I had to sum it up I would have to say that the phrase “the best thing since cut and paste” is the best thing since ... well – sliced bread.” – TVs Pat Sharp off of Pat Sharps Fun House.



Thank-you and carry on.