I was the walrus but now I'm John

I hope you find my musings amusing. A heartbreaker? No. A romancer? No. The guy in the pub you'd like to sit with? Well, yes, I'd rather like to think I am.

[butnowimjohn]

It’s here! My new book- It’s here! My new book 🙂 available in time for Christmas on Amazon as paperback and for Kindle! amzn.to/2hS3Rif #alanpartridge #alanpartridgequiz #partridge #alphapapa #northnorfolkdigital #midmorningmatters #scissoredisle #welcometotheplacesofmylife #knowingmeknowingyou #imalanpartridge

[butnowimjohn]

Buy The BIG Question - Alan Partridge Quiz Book: Volume 1 1 by Mr Ross Carpenter (ISBN: 9781979231534) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Just released on Amazon and Kindle, my new Alan Partridge Quiz Book - Volume 1 - featuring 52 quizzes of 12-15 questions (a total of 666 questions) across 2 difficulty levels. It includes 14 subject specific quizzes, including ‘Lynn Benfield’, ‘Mid-Morning Matters’, and ‘Alan’s Love Interests’. 

[sevenseasofbri]

that scene in trainspotting when they’re at the club and temptation by heaven 17 plays and then renton sees diane for the first time and the song switches to atomic by blondie is the most iconic scene of all cinema history

[mirrormaskcamera]

Sean Yuruslaf / القدس - alquds.

[butnowimjohn]

Possibly the single greatest thing I've EVER purchased.

[butnowimjohn]

Doing some sit ups..

[butnowimjohn]

Olivia perfecting the half volley 😍 #football #littlekicks #soccer #daughter #practicemakesperfect #training (at Wildern Leisure Centre)

[istwitterwrong-blog]

Did The Sun publish a mocking story in 1991 comparing the World Wide Web to the Sinclair C5?

No.

How The Sun reported the invention of the World Wide Web. twitter.com/hififidelity/s…

— Nic English (@hififidelity) September 4, 2012

How the Sun reported in the new fangled “Internet” in 1992yfrog.com/mmc1ejsj

— Old Holborn (@Old_Holborn) September 4, 2012

This is an odd one, because the picture above is very obviously a joke - from the byline onwards - but nonetheless does appear to have been passed around Twitter for most of the day as though it was real. Or, at the very least, with a degree of uncertainty.

Partly this is because the most commonly shared version of the picture, above, strips it of its context. Here’s what the full page looks like:

So, it’s clearly not from 1991, as it claims, because it’s very noticeable that the design has been done on a relatively modern computer. (Also, on a pedantic point, while there was a web server running by late 1990, Tim Berners-Lee didn’t publicly announce the World Wide Web project until August 1991, so for the Sun to have front-paged it in May would have been a hell of a scoop…)

Compare it with this real Sun front page from later in 1991, and the difference is pretty obvious, from the overall look and feel to small details (like how the date and price are written, byline style, etc.):

So where does it come from? The answer is that it was actually made by The Sun themselves - it’s from Hold Ye Front Page, their (really rather good) educational site that features mocked-up front pages for historical events (there was also a book). In fact, the Hold Ye Front Page team are on Twitter, and have been cheerfully spending the day retweeting people saying that this picture proves how stupid The Sun are.

[butnowimjohn]

Forget all that- the author of the article was supposed to be 'Dot Comme'? Clear fake. This is like one of those greetings cards with fake puns.

[britishcomedyoverflowing]

How did the county show go, Alan?

[diaryofaboringmanandhisdog-deac]

Ego

So this was good for the ego: walked past a group of kids and overheard them saying they thought i was homeless! The whole beard thing and having the dog it seems.

The disheveled look will come back in kids and I’ll have the last laugh.

[butnowimjohn]

Haha! :)

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[diaryofaboringmanandhisdog-deac]

What a fucking song. Kim Deal is just perfect.

[butnowimjohn]

Elton John playing in the rain, live in Exeter 2016

[butnowimjohn]

Every day my wife and daughter are away, I'm doing a chalk drawing of what happened. I might only last another few days- 56 days is really too much for the amount of chalk I have left! :)

[various-art-by-tom]

Southampton Beer Festival I’m having the Black Jesus on the right :) #photography #England #hampshire #originalphotography #southampton #originalcontent #saturday #weekend #variousartbytom #beer #ale #craftbeer #craftale #paleale #drinks #festival #o2 #southamptono2 #camara

[sarcasticallyinspired]

Another post from my A3 sketchbook, here’s a collection I did for one of my old supervisor when I asked her to give me a list of about 10 of her favourites. They always tended to be random, for obvious reasons, and I loved that. Here we’ve got along the top, from the left, Dogtanian, Popeye and The Road Runner. Along the bottom, from the left, Grandpa Smurf, Moominpappa and Plug (from The Bash Street Kids comic strip in The Beano)