September 9th, 2009

09:09, 09.09.09

Nine seconds later is everyone still here?  No terror incident?  Good.  Keep calm and carry on…


277 Comments

  1. 1
    English Viking says:

    You’re two days early.

    • 264
      End of the world says:

      It’s supposed to be the end of the world today. Sure explains Alistair Darlings desire to not pay off the £2.5 Trillion debt in any hurry.

  2. 2
    Silas says:

    I’m patiently waiting for 10:10.10 on 10/10/10 now.

  3. 3
    SF says:

    Superstitious Catholic! :-)

    • 40
      NewGirl says:

      You have no idea how many times we’ve saved the world by saluting magpies

      • 54
        Reg511 says:

        why do we do that?

        • 56
          NewGirl says:

          I dunno. I daren’t risk not doing it to find out.

        • 71
          Nigel Tufnel says:

          the magpie was the one bird that did not mourn the death of Christ and so is forever cursed .because of this you have to show respect to it by saluting

        • 99
          sirtweedoftwatting says:

          I shoot the fuckers.

        • 118
          jgm2 says:

          Nigel – that seems a bit fucked up. The magpie did not mourn the death of Christ so we show it respect by saluting?

          Under those circumstances I can understand the J*ws showing it respect but Christians should be blowing them (magpies) to pieces for their disrespect. Surely.

          Is this another one of those things people haven’t really thought through?

        • 121
          NewGirl says:

          How do they KNOW it didn’t mourn? P’raps it was crying inside, like most of the electorate.

        • 139
          jgm2 says:

          How did they know it didn’t mourn? Because it didn’t leave a fucking enormously ostentatious bouquet outside the tomb like every other fucking bird. That’s how.

          ‘You are always in our thourts (sic)’ The Robins

          ‘We’ll never forget you’ The parrots.

          ‘God Bless. Tonight you sleep with the angels’ The Dodos.

          Etc etc.

          But the Magpies? Fuck all. And it’s not like they couldn’t afford it with all that shiny stuff they’re forever nicking.

          Bastards.

        • 146
        • 209
          Sarah says:

          @jgm2
          Re:140
          ROFL! screen splatter with coffee!

          “there’s a nu star in heven tonite” – the tits
          “4 a fallen soljer” – the mapie krew

          Etc.

        • 234
          Fred Goodwin's Duck Palace says:

          funniest thing here in a long while jgm2. well played sir!
          might as well join in ;)

          ‘Much loved carpenter and messiah. see you at easter’ The Ducks

        • 261
          I'll have some of that says:

          JGM2 @140 – that and your post on the BMA earlier still have me laughing….Respec’ innit…..

        • 274
          Anonymous says:

          You know its so nice to see order order back to being a funny place of witty comments and randomness.

          Its been missing that a wee bit recently too many people trolling and taking life a bit too seriously!

          Keep up the good work!

      • 67
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        My grandmother would be distraught if she saw a solitary magpie. Some old rime about one for sorrow, two for joy bla bla. God moves in mysterious ways. Apparently the sight of a mole eating a pomegranate presages an asteroid strike.

      • 148

        Ah. I say – Good Morning/Afternoon, Mr. Magpie. My mother told me to. So I do, bless her. Worked so far.

        • 154
          NewGirl says:

          How do you know if it’s a MR? You are insulting 50% of the magpie population. No wonder Blair got elected and Brown took over.

        • 161
          Crap TV prog says:

          one for sorrow
          two for joy
          three for a girl and four for a boy
          fives for silver
          six for gold
          seven for a secret never to be told
          eights a wish and nines a kiss
          Ten is a bird you must not miss

          Maaaaaaaaaggggpppieeeeee…. (for those old enough to remember that program)

        • 178
          bergen says:

          Many thanks,Crap TV prog.

          There were nine on next door’s roof on saturday and my wife was trying to remember the rhyme.She could only remember up to seven.

        • 212
          Australian says:

          Wasn’t THE Magpie called Murgatroyd or some such?

      • 173
        Oil Beef Hooked says:

        Civilisation continues because I don’t change
        radio programmes going over a bridge.

        • 179
          English Viking says:

          I’ll thing you’ll find it’s because I shout 333 at 15:33, obviously without my feet touching the floor.

        • 218
          Australian says:

          EngVik – I hope you also run around churchyards while not thinking about foxes.

          Just to be sure, you know.

  4. 4
    Harry H Block says:

    Brown is still here though, doing the equivalent of a “Dirty Protest” on the economy

    • 89
      Goldhawk Road says:

      Exactly. 12 years of economic and political terrorism at the hands of New Labour and counting…..

    • 219
      Australian says:

      Harry – but how long before McDoom finally does the decent thing and goes the way of Bobby Sands?

  5. 5
    The Grim Reaper says:

    Yes we are Guido and the Westminster circus still carries on regardless.

    Bercow has just hired his own spin doctor at £100,000. Using public money to “raise his profile.”

    Well, you know the old saying, “you cannot polish a t***”

  6. 6
    Mug Punter says:

    Fuck! Another 25 quid lost.

  7. 7
    Gordonout says:

    Depends where you are in the world.

  8. 8
    Was it a rat i saw says:

    Prefer palindromes, me

  9. 9
    tired and jaded says:

    Sorry, Guido. It has to be GREENWICH MEAN TIME.

    Another 40 minutes to go.

  10. 10
    Sukyspook says:

    It’s in the ‘actual’ numbers English Viking – today is the 9th day of the 9th month 2009 = 999. Added to that, Guido was referring (I believe) to 9mins past 9 o’clock on 9-9-9 ergo 9-9-9-9-9.

    However, in one sense, as it’s 2009 it could be seen to be 2+9 = 11 ergo 9-9-11…(the ’0′s don’t count, obviously). 11, and multiples of 11 are MASTER NUMBERS (very important in the occult apparently) (11th hour, 11th day, 11th month anyone? = 33 again funnily enough…).

    On Friday it will be 11th of the 9th month 2009 which could be seen as a 911 if you don’t include 2009 ergo 11+9 but it could also be seen as 11+9+2+9 – I’m bored already so work it out if you can be arsed…

    Actually, in a way, numerically, much of the above is ‘pants’ as anyone who did basic French knows that Sept = 7… September should be the 7th month, October the 8th, November the 9th, Dec the 10th etc etc etc ad nausium. Perhaps this is the solution to the ‘numerical manipulation of humanity’ as some would see it – once you ‘break the spell’ it has no more power over you.

    Sorry, I do get carried away.

  11. 12
  12. 13
    Olly boy says:

    Help!

  13. 14
    paulstpancras says:

    Oh hum numerology freaks to join the Jewish-papal-masonic-royalist conspiracy theorists

  14. 16
    Andy Murray says:

    just 12 hours since I was jammily beat by that Croat.

    I’ll be wearing a Croatia t-shirt tonite.

    • 47
      jgm2 says:

      What? You mean you haven’t got an Argentina top like every other belligerent, lemon-sucking, McEwans swilling, wife-beating fucker up there?

      • 94
        genghiz the kahn says:

        Is McBroon going to the game tonight at Wembley or will he see sense and go to Hampden instead.

        Mind you he’ll think the fans are booing cos Croatia or Holland are on the pitch.

      • 275
        H.M.S. Fools and Horses says:

        it’s funny because it’s a twatty little troll revealing how much of an ignorant bigot he is. get it ?
        keep em coming chuckles

    • 234
      Australian says:

      Andy M – you should know by now that when some mumbling derelict called Prudence ‘phones you to wish you luck, just don’t take the call. He’s probably reversing the charges on you anyway.

  15. 20
    Old Nick Heavenly says:

    Be patient!

    Gordoom can do what the calendar cannot!

    Gordoom is a superman superhero!

    Gordoom has integrity!

    Clarity of vision!

    A man of honour!

    Gordoom saved the world and now he will save you!

    You lucky bastards!

    • 26
      Sukyspook says:

      Y A A A A A A A A W W W W N N N N – did somebody say something?

      • 44
        Old Nick Heavenly says:

        The likliehood of you waking up SS is very remote!

        You sleepwalked to this point! More than 50 years of sleepwalking!

        The chances of you smelling the coffee seems remote!

        PS.
        He is not coming back, never, ever and no way!

        Good night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 169
      Funambulist says:

      Supergordon? The Man of Steal.

  16. 21

    Personally I work to Unix time. And that runs out in 2038.

    Arrrgh panic panic panic

    • 81
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      Never mind. We will have more bits by then!

    • 115
      Unix jock says:

      So do I but I’ll be retired by then so I don’t care!
      And anyway I’ll be 87 so I may well be six feet under.

    • 199
      Steve Expat says:

      Everything will be 64-bit well before then!

      We hope!

      And if not, I was too young to get the shitloads of consultancy money that came from fixing the Millenium bug, so maybe this one will pay for my retiremnet?

  17. 25
    Has anyone seen Mike Hunt says:

    Sir a black hole has appeared , Sorry was just going through the countrys books .

  18. 29
    Mike Rouse says:

    We did a Mexican wave to celebrate the world surviving. There were only two of us that did this so God only knows what the rest of the office made of it.

    PS: Shameless plug for my sponsored weight loss challenge: http://bit.ly/NcCVq

    • 32
      genghiz the kahn says:

      Get that fat barsteward Brown to sign up for it.

      • 242
        John Prescnut says:

        I’d sign up. If only I could spell my name. Or read. Or write.

        (Written for John by one of his retinue as John still has trouble with pens and pencils).

    • 34
      Sukyspook says:

      Congratulations on your wave Mike – had I known I would have joined in….

  19. 35
    Anonymous says:

    was there supposed to be? have I missed something?

    if it’s supposed to match the american backwards date and their emergency number = 911 then don’t forget we’re europeans now…. our emergency number is 112

  20. 39

    That liberal conspiracy thread is getting funnier and funnier – they are such miserable humourless twats over there. They Just Don’t Get It.

    • 41
      NewGirl says:

      over where?

    • 55

      I only deleted the second Tweet to annoy him who must not be named. Wonder why he thinks anyone gives a damn about blog comments and tweets being deleted.

      I do it all the time. Tippex built a business out of the same principle.

      • 61
        NewGirl says:

        Jolly earnest types over there aren’t they? Almost too easy to wind ‘em up, really. Candy off a baby.

        • 65
          Hildegard Hinxey says:

          Yeah? Here I come.

        • 70

          It’s the group-think stupidity – Lefties just aren’t very good at humour, at thinking on their feet, at coming up with retorts on an individual basis. I really dont’ like that. I think a person without humour is definitely a lesser person. You think of the people who can make you laugh, from right and sometimes left, there’s always an intelligence there – and also empathy. You cannot make a gag about someone without knowing what it is to walk in their shoes – to *get* them. You can’t take the piss without know what stings. This is why Brown can’t do it – he has no idea what it’s like to be a Normal. But you look at Hague – effortless. Obama too – most of it’s pre-prepared but his off the cuff stuff is pretty good too. People don’t only like that, they understand that it betrays a quick mind, and a grasp of humanity. Humour, like music, is important to humanity. Lefties think things like pay differentials and drone-like equality are important – this is why they cannot win public affection or public trust. They’re inhuman. Dour. Dull.

        • 85
          Phil O'Pastree says:

          Even George Bush could do it. Just ask Nick Robinson.

        • 87
          Grytpype-thynne says:

          Frank, your analysis is spot on.You omitted one thing though: the humourless left (and right) who resort to mere personal abuse and empty threat

        • 117
          a tissue of lies says:

          “Yeah? Here I come.”

          ……kleenex at the ready.

        • 134
          The Ghost of Robert Kilroy Silk says:

          So, sooo true

          that’s why Jim Davidson is the funniest man who ever lived

          nick-nick

        • 140
          Charles Hardpenis says:

          RACIST! Oh, err..what?

      • 88
        Donut Hinge Party says:

        “You can’t take the piss without know what stings”

        Cystitis? Poor Koalas.

    • 58
      Grytpype-thynne says:

      I see Dolly is repeating the unlikely defence that he did not pass on the libel but that his inbox was hacked into

      • 66
        shelling-out says:

        Dolly Draper. A man of immense integrity…….NOT.

        What they will do to save their sorry arses.

        • 80
          Grytpype-thynne says:

          Agreed.Having said that, Nadine Dorries is not exactly a haven of rock-solid sanity

        • 109
          Maddine Dotties says:

          How dare you!

          My crack space-lawyer/masseur will be serving you with a plate of boiled fish-heads forthwith. Expect dire consequences and the bloody merciless vengeance of the molepeople to follow your slanderous libel.

      • 102
        Phil O'Pastree says:

        Even an idiot should realise that by putting one’s thoughts eternally to print, especially defammatory ones, there is a fair chance that one day they’d come to light.

        I hope his missus gets another job soon to pay for the legal fees and damages.

        • 184
          tat says:

          look on the bright side phil, if you put all of your thoughts into print it would fit on one side of A4.
          you dopey cripple.

    • 123
      Anonymous says:

      they just don’t get satire do they ?

      someone should sue

  21. 63
    David Icke says:

    It’s all a red herring. The number 5 is the new number of the Beast. The 5/4 time signature was not invented until the early C19 and is still known only through a handful of curiosities such as Dave Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’, the Scherzo from Bartok’s Third String Quartet and the theme tune from Hawaii Five-O.

    Also there is no symmetric tiling of the plane of order five but there is a tiling of the sphere with a five-fold axis. A football is just an inflated dodecahedron as you might have noticed when you are watching Match of the Day. Most people at home do not notice this as they are too busy knocking over tinnies and singing ‘who ate all the pies’.

    But even this may be a red herring. It is not swine flu that is the threat. It is the vaccine. A CIA scientist told me in 1995 that technology even then enabled microchips to be injected into the blood stream via hyperdermic syringe. The government is going to use this to have us all tagged and put on a database. I speak the truth.

    • 69
      shelling-out says:

      ha ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha, oh, stop, please, ha ha ha ha….

      • 75
        jgm2 says:

        He forgot to mention that the Earth is hollow and that the royal family eat dead babies.

        Allegedly.

        • 84
          jgm2 says:

          Also 1995 will be an Illuminati special number which is why the vaccine was developed in 1995. By an astonishing coincidence every number is an Illuminati special number. Or the sum of special numbers. Or the reciprocal of special Illuminati numbers. Or a number deliberately chosen because it was not an Illuminati special number to lessen the likelihood of detection.

          Allegedly David Icke’s discovery of the Illuminati, lizard controllers of the world, followed on fairly hot on the foot of his missus finding out he was having an affair. Although that’s just the kind of smear the Illuminati would create to discredit the purple one.

          Anyway, enough, my chakra needs sustenance.

        • 98
          shelling-out says:

          What? Someone actually had an affair with David Icke?

          She must have been as biffy as he is.

        • 104
          Dmitri the Impostor says:

          And *you* forgot to mention that Boxcar Willie is an Illuminatus.

          Neglect this and the whole theory collapses like a house of cards.

        • 151
          Jimmy Saville's Cigar says:

          Boxcar Willie? Can’t they treat that with antibiotics, these days?

        • 171
          tinfoil hatter says:

          Puuuhlease you’ll be spouting off and ranting about the New World Order next.
          Which is of course run by the spacelizard-bliderburger-illuminati-trilateral-freemason-troofer-nasa-skulll&bones-bankingfamilies-ers

          And Elvis

        • 187
          David Icke says:

          PURPLE SHELL SUITS GET YOUR PURPLE SHELL SUITS HERE!
          ROLL UP ROLL UP! A FIVER EACH WHAT A BARGAIN!
          TWO PAIRS LOVE? NO PROBLEM!

    • 82
      Dmitri the Impostor says:

      It is irrefutable and therefore true.

      http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/25191

    • 83
      Nigel Tufnel says:

      It is not, and never was a red herring FFS, it has always been the green scaly reptiles, you only have to look at the front benches, get a grip oh Messiah

      • 96
        jgm2 says:

        I must admit I was a bit sceptical of Icke’s lizard people until Alistair Campbell, Mandelson and Tony and Cherie Blair came on the scene.

        It doesn’t need too much imagination to see the lizard creature behind the reptillian facade of that lot. It would look a lot like that lizard character in ‘Monsters Inc’.

    • 108
      Alan Philip Bonggg says:

      Re 5/4 time signature. Since the BBC is obsessed by the Beatles at the moment, may I point out thet their song “Don’t let me down momemtarily switches to 5/4 before reverting to 4/4 again.

      • 133
        Dmitri the Impostor says:

        The pieces are starting to fall into place now. David Icke must have gained his insight into the platonic solids during his spell as goalkeeper for Hereford United FC. Hereford is the base of the SAS who are going to be in the front line against any extra-terrestrial infiltration. The one flaw in his cosmogony seems to be the time signature of the theme tune to Hawaii Five-O but this may be deliberate. Islamic tilings, carpets etc always contain some design flaw because it is not for us mortals to aspire to perfection and it helps to ward off the evil eye. Right, David?

    • 130
      Life on Mars says:

      And Holst’s “Planets” suite.

  22. 68
    Master Baiter says:

    Ninety-nine……change hands…

  23. 72
    John Prescott says:

    If we’re on abaht noombers, wot’s wrong wi’ ma favorite – pi.

  24. 78
    Astronomer with a telescope says:

    The biggest threat comes not from a particular time on Astronomical Terrestrial Dynamical Time, rather from the loony green lefties that have taken over the EU.

    • 107
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Try not to be serious when we’re all having a pre-catastrophe giggle, that’s a good fellow.

      • 141
        Astronomer with a telescope says:

        Astronomer with a telescope says ‘sorry’. I thought ‘Call me Dave’ had put this one out as Conservative Policy…

  25. 86
    Four-eyed English Genius says:

    Would that be Julian or Gregorian 9/9/9? GMT or BST?

    • 91
      Grytpype-thynne says:

      What about the other time zones?They might feel left out

      • 119
        NewGirl says:

        Yes. My personal time zone is sick of the lack of recognition.

      • 124
        dr killdare says:

        You should worry more about that time you were dropped on your head as a child.

      • 180
        EC1 PhD says:

        The other time zones aren’t as obsessed with terrorism as we are. Pre-9/11, would we really be worried about whether the IRA would strike at 09:09:09 on 9/9/09? Conclusion: it all started in America.

      • 208
        Steve Expat says:

        Still a couple of hours to go for the New Yorkers and a handful for the Californians. If you think we have tin-foil hats on….

  26. 93
    Anonymous says:

    Nein, nein, nein.

  27. 97
    EnoughisEnough says:

    Topical with the release of the Beatles works digitally remastered, lets all sing the number nine song…Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine……..

  28. 100

    [...] and, I was going to comment on this being the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year but someone has already beaten me to it.(Add it to the list so it wasn’t Bird Flu, the Millennium bug etc [...]

  29. 105
    SO17 says:

    Time is a funny old thing.
    When you think that it stretches as far back as it does forward.
    I ask myself,’Where was my soul in the vast infinity of the past?’
    In fact where was it just prior to my conception?
    Is there life after death? is there fuck because there certainly wasn’t life before life and that is something unlike death that we are all witness to.

    • 131
      Rowan Williams says:

      I think you may be a reincarnated gerbil, or possibly a hamster. To avoid future disappointment get a relative to cremate you and dump the remains in the Ganges or join the Labour Party.

    • 200
      tat says:

      go easy on the superskunk SO17.
      FFS.

    • 223
      shelling-out says:

      That’s a bit heavy going for 10.30am. I hadn’t even had my coffee by then.

  30. 111
    oldrightie says:

    It’s that old joke about the guy who bet a million quid on the end of the world happening.

  31. 113
    Sunday Morning says:

    Don’t think we are out of the woods yet….we still have to make it through 20:09 20 09 2009

  32. 122
    Silent Bob says:

    ­ ­

    • 127
      birdy says:

      Fuck off Bob, I’m fed up with your overlong and tiresome comments.

    • 129
      NewGirl says:

      Profound.

      • 189
        EC1 PhD says:

        I found his nihilistic take on the nothingness of the void rather shallow. Perhaps if he had expressed with more depth the emptiness of abandon I would agree with you NewGirl.

    • 135
      chronic says:

      Check your punctuation

    • 143
      Has anyone seen Mike Hunt says:

      Bob sir you have made afew typos

    • 150
      Dmitri the Impostor says:

      Only in the sea of silence can we find the fish of peace.

      • 155
        jgm2 says:

        You are Edward Monkton and I claim my aqualung.

        • 170
          Dmitri the Impostor says:

          Never heard of him but the usual web resource says that he shares an office in Notting Hill with Richard Curtis and Mariella Frostrup. That’s three reasons why he should be shot on sight before we even get started on the abominations he inflicts on the public. Mr Biscuit is not happy until he shacks up with Mr Potato, indeed. Albert, get my gun.

          …Fish of peace is a cod-koan attributed to Sir Laurens van der Post in PE’s ‘Heir of Sorrows’ c 1986.

        • 213
          Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

          I do like the “madness hamsters”. I suppose its all reletive though. I only look at his work when bored in the kind of shop that only women like.

    • 162
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      It’s the thought that counts, innit Bob?

      • 203
        tat says:

        if it is the thought that counts then you score a big fat zero phil.
        which is rather apt because you are a big fat zero.
        innit.

    • 239
      Sarah says:

      Ah, the teaching of silence – will you be my guru?

    • 240
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      Oi, no swearing here. Guido doesn’t like it, you know!

  33. 126
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    Down with Gordon!

  34. 145
    Has anyone seen Mike Hunt says:

    If i may , Is anyone else having trouble getting the times up on the web ?

  35. 163
    Has anyone seen Mike Hunt says:

    There is Talk among some labour backbenchers to push the Pm out and have a new leader , However there is a snag .

    Once a lord always a lord

    • 167
      EnoughisEnough says:

      We live in hope for the first part, but don’t fancy the alternative in more ways that one.

      • 249
        Watch the Skies! says:

        There is meant to be an Act allowing Life Peers to relinquish their titles announced at the next State Opening of Parliament. Anyone who saw Lord M of H&F boasting of how good his pokerface was on Sky News can only wonder whether he will be thrice-reborn.

  36. 181
    The Bonkers Bullion Bungler, Barmy Leader of Noo_Lie_Bore says:

    An’ rememba, nuth’ns ma fult!!! ye un’stn

  37. 183
    Anonymously Knowing says:

    Just keep watching Downing Street – when the “fuckers” start beaming up is the time to worry – as Nic Cage found out !!!!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_%28film%29

  38. 185
    anonymously says:

    Given the Jack Straw has now granted a royal pardon to Michael Shields, due to a new rendition of old evidence, is there anybody here who would knowingly put their lives in the hands of any MP or person in authority?????

  39. 194
    does Gordon Brown write for the FT or are they just cυnts too? says:

    this on UK’s ‘improving’ July trade deficit:

    “Britain’s global goods trade gap narrowed fractionally to £6.5bn from an upwardly revised £6.5bn in June.”

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7db794c8-9d22-11de-9f4a-00144feabdc0.html

    is that like a 0% rise? Even the ONS number-friggers couldn’t lie like the FT:

    “The deficit on trade in goods was £6.5 billion, unchanged from June.” – ONS

    ‘FT – for scum written by scum’.

    • 196
      Has anyone seen Mike Hunt says:

      Sir this is as Mr Fawkes would say dead tree press

    • 207
      Engineer says:

      Doesn’t necessarily mean things are getting better. Just means they’re not getting worse as fast as they were.

      • 215
        Steve Expat says:

        Exactly. Still in the shit, and Darling’s 175bn estimate for borrowing still looking wildly optimistic.

    • 210
      streamfisher says:

      The BBC buzz word of today is Green Shoots again, the economy is recovering because unemployment is not increasing…. wait for it…..quite as fast as it was.

      • 216
        streamfisher says:

        Buzz words and are…for the pedants.

      • 217
        shelling-out says:

        A llot of unemployed people are now on government training courses, which takes them out of the unemployment figures.

        • 229
          streamfisher says:

          Link up with Microsoft has promised 500,000 ‘jobs’, the definition generally accepted by most people of a job has hitherto been being in payed employment, Nulab have now decided that a job is anything the Government dreams up to massage the unemployment figures.

        • 267
          DWP statistics manipulator says:

          shelling-out

          don’t forget all those been sent to worthless organisations like A4e and Shaw Trust

      • 238
        Labour Lord Batterycharger of Mumbai says:

        or yesterday’s spin that UK’s factories are humming again due to 0.9% rise in manufacturing output in July – due mainly to an Indian owned factory in Brum producing a couple of hundred extra units for dealer launch stocks of facelifted vehicles – the definition of a tinpot economy.

  40. 202
    McGroom says:

    Don’t count your chickens yet, the US has yet to wake up and they are the main target

  41. 221
    electro-kevin says:

    Actually 09 09 09 2009

    Trust Jesus to spoil our fun. He can be such a bore.

  42. 231
    chronic says:

    The cost of journalism = 1 dead soldier, 2 dead civilians, 1 dead interpreter.
    1 journalist is worth 4 lives.

  43. 258

    Sadly I was going to have a glass of champers in celebration on:

    09:09:09 on 09/09/09

    But, alas, I couldn’t even find the opening to get the foil off before it was 09:09:10 :-(

  44. 262
    Anonymous says:

    Have to get this off my chest. The date is 09/09/2009. Now did everyone spot that 2009 has a 2 in it? Good, now we can stop all this nonsense about it only having 9′s.

  45. 265
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    Ah, you may say “no terror incident”, but of course that’s just what they want you to think…

  46. 273

    Guido

    I have a big bruise on my leg and its sore.

  47. 277
    Kaypea says:

    In terror land, they are still back in the dark ages in the year 1430 AH, so back to the drawing board for significant dates; although, if you turn 666 on its head in Mexico you get 999 and have to tell the President..



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