Mad Men

This show is the bees knees (what does that really mean????)

Classy characters, very reflective and insightful on everyday life issues in the 60's that are still relevant today.

O and when the women are only secretaries and the only black people are the help (lift operator and house keeper), you realise how much things have changed.

Top show.

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You come to this world alone, you leave alone

You come to this world alone, you leave alone.

But is that really the case? Isn’t it more accurate that you came into this world with the help of mummy? Didn’t you have lots and lots of company before you even entered mummys womb?

Most times there are a whole host of people waiting to welcome you into the world (doctors, horrified dad, mother in excruciating pain and demanding daddy’s head with the words “YOU DID THIS TO ME”)

But lets forget this argument for a moment and stick with the title. Lets say you physically come into this world alone. Do you do so spiritually? Atheists don’t panic this is not a religious post .

What if the suckers you left behind give you a sending off? What if there were angels, spirits or uhhhhh fairies (????) around to assure the process went smoothly. I am not sure about this myself.

As for leaving the earth, well I do think that some spiritual being, ghost, angels or bad spirits ( reference movie ‘Ghost’). Many feel that others guide us to the after life so basically we don’t leave alone. I don’t know??? What I do know is that we are not alone through our lives.

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Priority Seats?

We are all destined for priority seats. When first we are in our mother’s womb, she is (and you technically) entitled to a priority seat.

Then we make our way out and have our own priority seat called a pram.

We then grow up and think that you are entitled to sit anywhere you please on the bus because………………. Well because it’s you init? We may even look into the eyes of an old lady and move only our hands to change the track on our disc mans (showing my age), walkmans (I aint that old) or ipods (I’m not that young or is it not that cool).

Then we get our own kids and seek out priority seats again for yourself or your partner.

Time goes and you are now totally outside the jurisdiction of priority seating. You escape it for decades. You may even barge the old and the young to get to a seat because a seat is a seat and your journey is too long. You may even start to say why are old people on the train at rush hour anyway, or why are old people on the train??? The funny thing however is, that old person you are refusing to offer your seat to turns out to be yourself because no matter what we do, we cannot avoid the priority seat.

Well you CAN but I wouldn’t advise that option.

Please take note of the second image which is a spoof sticker on a Japanese train. It may better describe the process.

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Old Celebs

So the old geezer of strictly come dancing has quit and decided to rob us of the viewing pleasure of his stunning dance partner who actually does all the work. What a selfish guy. And why would any man want to give up spending the majority of their time with a foxy dancer lady? One question too many for my pretty little head.

On other celebrity news, I recently caught an old favourite running around on TV and decided to pull him up for a quick interview. Eddie Murphy was in his latest movie and I was on my couch.


Me: SO Eddie, what happened to all those classy and punchy jokes that made you a legend in my eyes
Eddie/Klump/Norbit/Latest Fat Character: pharts
Me: Uh, OK. I have a friend who refers to you as Sir Eddie. Do you think you still live up to such billing?
Eddie/Klump/Norbit/Latest Fat Character: (SHOUTS) YES AHH CAAAAAN!!!
Me: So Eddie any chance of you droping the fat jokes?
Eddie/Klump/Norbit/Latest Fat Character: pharts
Me: Uh, I guess not. Any chance of you doing some good material like the good old days?
Eddie/Klump/Norbit/Latest Fat Character: makes armpit noises whilst biting into lamb chops

At this point I looked down and tried to supress the tears as I realised, Eddie isn’t just going through a little bit of a slump, Eddies gone. Gone for good. He might give us a little spark here and there with donkey from Shrek but alas my friends, Eddie lost his mojo a looong time ago.

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Disclaimer: No one was hurt in this fictional interview.