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He decided to set up A radical space For free-thinkers. This was not Popular With the local Free-thinkers. They objected To their houses Bei...

They decide To go out to a pub For lunch. The pub they decide To go out to Is called the Fox and Hunting Horn at Newton-on the-Moor, Northum...

The final of this year's Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Will be between The Department of Ablutions And Yellow Plastic Ducks At the Univ...

A young lady Called Joyce, In Southwell, Nottinghamshire, Has an eating disorder. She picks up a banana, Peels off the skin, Throws the cent...

She goes to her window, Notes the encroaching twilight, And lights A honey-coloured Pumpkin candle. Is it possible that In crepuscular condi...

A scantily-clad woman With pendulous breasts, Is driving her car Through rush hour traffic. A police marksman Fires two shots at her With a ...

George sat down to play A game of chess. He played the white pieces While his opponent, Osama, Played the black pieces. While George's b...

He enjoys Watching butterflies Through binoculars. Perhaps it is because He's a mathematician. The rickety, amateurish flight Of a butte...

In Blogistan The one-balled Mouse Is King. In Blogistan All is there, But All is not Always All it seems. In Blogistan A burly front-row for...

One of the nice things About Mr Honeywell, The visiting preacher At Guildford Cathedral, Surrey, Was his refreshing Concision. His sermons n...

In a letter in today's edition of The Sunday Telegraph (London), Mr Giles Wardle of Tonge, Leicestershire, asks the following two questi...

A fruitarian bird-watcher, Named Mr Schpoch, Was setting out his picnic On the grassy river bank At Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. In a ...

I am a terrorist Catch me if you can In under the radar A quiet Osama fan. I am a terrorist On social benefit The money's very useful It...

Page update: 01.08.07 One of the more dogged human textual artefacts to persist in the religious culture of the West, and one most prized by...

Sunrise on the 21st June At Slapton Sands In Devon, England, Took place at 4.58 am. At 4.59 am A large group Of German tourists Emerged from...

Our distinguished guests In the corporate boxes Are respectfully reminded That cricket is a game Played with a hard ball. If such a ball Tra...

Sophie, awaking from An unusually vivid dream, While lounging lazily On a sleepy summer afternoon In her lavender-scented garden In Launcest...

At a quarter past two In the afternoon, A man with a large nose Is listening to test match cricket On the radio. His wife undresses And asks...

It is a matter of public concern that the BBC, a public service broadcaster, has been duped into giving so much attention to the decoy terro...

A man with a red-and-yellow bowtie Goes in to see his doctor In Harrow, Middlesex. "Good morning, Doctor, "How are you?" ...

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Page update: 28.02.08 Every now and again, the Senior Editorial Board of the Alcuin and Flutterby Weblog asks Mr Alcuin Bramerton to write a...

We wish to express regret at the omission, once more, from the Queen's Birthday Honours List of Mr Michael Jackson, the American child-c...

He was thinking. He was thinking about Theology. He was thinking That if it is true That there is nothing outside God, Which is pretty obvio...

Page update: 16.09.07 Rightly or wrongly, a view is emerging in liberal circles in Old Europe that the United States of America has become a...

He turned round And addressed The man behind him In the fish shop. "Your address is Number 33, Main Street, Lower Witchington, Worceste...

He had absolutely nothing Inside his head, So he decided to become A theologian. His head was like An unbroken eggshell With no egg inside...

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Charles sits down   To compile A directory of blogs Written by insects. This is no simple task. Charles is a human being And as far as he...