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Irish Judge Stops Drink Drive Trial For Urine Steam Inhalation
When he is urinating, he is inhaling vapourised alcohol and there's always steam off it
Anorak Professor John Wells Explains The Nu English Idiom
A WORD now from Friend of Anorak Professor John Wells, who though not affiliated to Anorak speeks 4 mani ov us:
“Text messaging, email and internet chat rooms are showing us the way forward for English,” he said. “Let’s stop worrying if people sometimes spell ‘you’ as ‘u’, ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ both as ‘ur’, and ‘whose’ and ‘who’s’ both as ‘whos’.”
Anorak has been at the vanguard of Nu English for an age. Go on:
Posted: 9th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Says | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
THE new Anorak is coming. We need writers. We need designers. We need luck… In the meantime, more meetings…
Posted: 8th, September 2008 | In: Anorak Says, Photojournalism | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
If Vietnam Were Now What Would We See?
ON the social networks, the iconic picture of General Loan killing a Viet Con prisoner has been given the legend: “IF VIETNAM WERE NOW WHAT WOULD YOU SEE?”
The comment aims at satire, but in a world of 24-hour rolling news and the internet, what we see now is everything.
Posted: 26th, August 2008 | In: Anorak Says, Photojournalism, War On Terror | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Anorak Tops The Olympic Medals Table
MUCH conjecture over which country and land mass is winning the Olympics.
Old Mr Anorak would like it on the record that he alone employs women of at least 26 nationalities, which between them have amassed 121 gold medals, 103 silvers and 102 bronzes.
We have won no fewer than 15 medals per person. And this does Not include the Thai ladies ping-pong team who are boycotting the Games.
This puts Anorak at the top of any medal chart, and is yet another blow to OMA’s former wives from Slovenia, Belarus, Guatemala, Chinese Tapiei, Wales, Ecuador, Vietnam and what he resolutely refers to as Bechuanaland…
Posted: 20th, August 2008 | In: Anorak Says, Back pages | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
What A Kara On: Sarika Watkins-Singh Wins
SARIKA Watkins-Singh, aged 14, was reprimanded for breaking the “no jewellery” rule at Aberdare Girls’ School in South Wales. Although, in the interests of consistency, wristwatches and ear studs are permitted.
Sarika is a Sikh, and argued that her wrist bangle is central to her faith. She claimed to be the victim of unlawful discrimination. The matter went to court.
Posted: 29th, July 2008 | In: Anorak Says | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
How Likely Is It That A Journalist Will Die At Work?
JOURNALISTS have less chance of dying at work than truck drivers. But it depends on where you are writing, and who you’re writing about…
And how many journalists today actually do any reporting? And which is the riskier: going to a war zone to report, or living in the war zone you’re reporting on?
Posted: 28th, July 2008 | In: Anorak Says | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Reporting Injunction
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
WHISPERS of an injunction:
That the UK press gets much of its insider information on the McCann case from reading “source says” in the Portuguese press is beyond doubt.
Can the UK press be barred from reporting on these reports?
Scott QC is listed leading for McCann today.
Abdullah Masry v Mona Al Khatib, High Court Family Division, Sumner J (led by Timothy Scott QC) – successful application for an injunction restraining the press generally from publishing stories about the parties and their children (contra mundum order) – application of the court’s jurisdiction in wardship;
As Anorak’s Carmen writes:
Posted: 7th, July 2008 | In: Anorak Says, Madeleine McCann | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Could The BBC Be Funded By Tax On Mobile And Web?
ONLINE Journalism wonders:
“Could the BBC be funded by a tax on web and mobile? In France President Sarkozy has just announced that, from next year:
“prime-time advertising on public television will be phased out, with the lost revenues to be replaced by taxes collected from internet, mobile phone and commercial broadcasting companies
“Internet and mobile operators will have to stump up a tax of 0.9 percent of sales—which could raise up to 380 million euros ($595 million), in support of the state-owned France Televisions, which controls the country’s four public channels. A further 80 million euros ($125 million) will come from taxes on commercial broadcasters.”
So would you pay for useage rather then right?
Posted: 2nd, July 2008 | In: Anorak Says, TV & Radio, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
