Ideas Unlimited

We have had the Rockumentary and more recently the Mockumentary. A few suggestions for more of the same kind of cack

...........and so on. if you have any more ideas please stop a complete stranger and tell them all about it.

Here is a list of musicians and other well-known people who have shifted off their mortal coil at this tender age.

Waylon Jennings; Desmond Dekker; Anita Roddick; Gene Pitney;

Wilson Pickett; Long John Baldry; Johnny Paycheck;

Eugene Record (Chi-lites); Thelonious Monk; Johnny Moore (Drifters);

Floyd Cramer; Ben Webster (Duke Ellington sax); Allen Strange electro-music guru;

Ronnie Wells-Elliston a versatile jazz balladeer and educator;

Stan Getz, one of jazz's most influential musicians and explosively imaginative tenor saxophonists;

John Guerin was perhaps the most-recorded drummer in history;

Dumpy Rice (honky tonk artist);

Julie Ege - Scandinavian Actress who found fame in the sixties and seventies;

It makes you think does it not? (About what?)

Using 'I don't do...' inappropriately - e.g. 'I don't do Saturday mornings' when what you really mean is that you are a lazy dosser who doesn't get out of bed on Saturday mornings, which is not the same thing.

Saying 'Get a life' which usually indicates that the speaker is the kind of tedious personality who gets excited about mobile phones and that sort of crap.

Saying 'chill' when you have been involved in some Neanderthal anti-social activity and someone is quite rightly bringing it to your attention.

Football commentators who talk about 'maintaining composure on the ball' and repeatedly use words like 'scenario'. (Yawn)

Footballers who can't speak properly and say things like 'the team played brilliant today' instead of brilliantly. Use some of your cash to take lessons in basic elocution - it will help you to speak more accurate.

People who go on about 'finding themselves' which invariably means a trip to Goa to sit on a beach for 6 months - just retrace your footsteps instead.

Articles about how to scoop up cheap properties in places such as Romania - usually to be found in the same newspapers which carp on about immigrants coming to this country to steal our donkeys, eat all the royal swans etc. etc. 

Programmes which eliminate contestants in order to find the new something or, indeed, other. Do not be fooled dear viewer - the process is more important than the end product. Could it be that some of the more obnoxious contestants are deliberately retained because they make good viewing?

Stop wasting your cash on bottled water - just buy one sturdy bottle and fill it from the tap - you will look far more sophisticated and less like a pranny.

Brew all your own beer and wine - its dead easy and will save you thousands over a lifetime.

Don't buy books new - just borrow them from other people and pass then on - it saves space. Also wait until they have been out a while a buy them from charity shops for a fraction of their original price. Then try and sell them on ebay.

Don't slavishly follow fashions - it is just a ruse to get you to squander. In fact start your own fashion. e.g Chef's workwear can be acquired very cheaply and you will be the envy of all your mates when you turn up at the pub in those loose fitting checked trousers, not to mention the large white hat.

Catch and kill rabbits and grey squirrels - these make a tasty dish - you could also be the first in your 'hood to own a home made fur coat!

Do not get over concerned about 'use by' dates on food - it is usually edible long after that mysterious instruction (exactly how else might you 'use' a sandwich except for eating). 

Experiment with making yourself invisible - you will then be able to get out of paying bus and train fares.