It is hot, really hot, so hot that it gives the word hot a bad name. It doesn’t help that the government have again suggested to companies to cool the workplace at a cool 28 degrees celsius! I kid you not. Where I come from that is known as heating!

If Chubby Checker had to rerecord Let’s Twist Again today it would probably sound more like this:

Let’s Shvitz again

Like we did last summer

Let’s Shvitz again

Like we did last year.

With all the central air at

28 degrees, no cooler

The least the management could supply us with

Is beer.

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Well round and round and round and round

My headache goes

With humidity gone through the roof

I need to doze.

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Let’s Shvitz again

Like we did last summer

Let’s Shvitz again

Like we did last year.

Why in god’s name won’t they

Adopt to daylight  saving time

Or at least provide that mandatory beer.

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The release of 21, Adele’s second album was followed by great reviews and unparalleled success. Perhaps her topping the British charts, after such a successful first album, was a given, but how she conquered American and the world seems to bring back memories of four Liverpudlian lads whose names I need not mention.

Adele’s 21 has now been in the Amazon bestseller charts for 552 days and as I write is positioned at number 1. This is not your everyday new hit singer phenomena, this is the real thing. It seems today that no matter where you are her music will be playing in the background. This season’s American Idol and it’s clones were full of Adele Karaoke, every other song played in every  store you visit is likely to be hers and please don’t even get me talking about YouTube.

It would seem that, in a world where the singers are mostly winners of TV competitions, there is still room for real talent. Looking at Adele and hearing her being interviewed you wonder if it is all real. She’s plump, and that was before she got pregnant, wears hair fashioned after your middle aged aunt and would never win any beauty contest. Her life, judging from what she tells you, is a shambles of problematic love affairs, yet she is now without doubt the most popular singer in the world selling millions of albums and she’s just turned twenty two.

Adele is no one hit wonder. She is the real thing and in a couple of years, if nothing goes wrong, will surely be a worthy companion to the golden list of eternal  musicians  whose music never gets old. Adele has set fire to the rain and it seems like nothing can put our the flames.  Adele; one point of advice, keep turning those tablea and please don’t go comparing yourself to Jesus.

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1. In Japan cars usually stop at a red traffic light. In China all drivers are color blind.

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2. Japan is famous for its clean and efficient toilets with electronic controls. In China bring your own toilet paper and hold your breath.

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3. In Japan women spend a whole months wages in order to purchase a genuine Gucci bag. In China genuine ???

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4. In Japan the three most popular food chains are McDonalds Starbucks and Kentucky Fried Chicken. In China the three most popular food chains are McDonalds Starbucks and Kentucky Chicken. Go figure!

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5. In China it costs around $0.30 to use the subway and get across town. N Japan it can cost $300 to buy a honeydew melon!

Also see

5 Things the Japanese do better than the Americans

Guide to English greetings

The American’s guide to the British

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Sure enough among the trillion pictures of cute cats and dogs and cheap promotions of would be models there is some really fine photography.

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Only in Japan could you find such an amount of talent in one place and at one time. 150 percussion groups and bands from all over Japan. Pure heaven for those who appreciate culture or music.

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Sometimes a good idea desn’t look all that good in the morning, especially when the idea was the result of heavy boozing. Here are a few  URLs that never should have hit the web. Obviously many of the following are no longer active.

www.expertsexchange.com – This site was supposedly for exchanging advice between experts and not what you people with dirty minds were thinking.

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http://www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com - I wonder if there’s a site out there for men who dress like Lady Gaga?

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www.therapistfinder.com - O.K. so the guys and girls behind this site to help you find a therapist learned their lesson. You won’t find any rapists here but the URL will now take you to http://www.counselingcalifornia.com/ which seems a bit safer a find.

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http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/ Supposedly the longest URL in the world – out to get noted in the Guinness book of records.

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Want to find out who the agent is for your favorite whore? Try http://www.whorepresents.com, the site actually informs you who represents famous celebrities. No you won’t catch me claiming that some of them are whores but it’s their words not mine!!!

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Ever heard of a site for Old shaven men. Check out  www.OldManShaven.com. Actually it’s Old Man’s Haven but that sounds almost as bad (or bald).

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And then of course there’s the old Monty Python favourite:

The Lumberman Sex Change Site, or as it is now known http://www.lbxonline.com  (spoil sports!)

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the sequel to Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull’s masterpiece Thick as a Brick (see The Return of Gerald Bostock). This to be released for the 40th anniversary of the classic album followed by a world tour is scheduled wherein Ian Anderson will play both versions in their entirety.  Well the album is finally here and I wasn’t disappointed. Anyone who is looking for a rebirth of the era of classic rock  should look no further. In fact I am not afraid to say that in many ways the sequel is even better than the original. The music is more evolved  and  the sound is spectacular. O.K. I can hear the complaints world wide so please forgive me.

Will this mean a revolution in the music business? I doubt it. Will it top the record charts for weeks on end? I think that that is very unlikely. But maybe I’ll be surprised. There are several differences between the original masterpiece and its sequel. First of all this is Ian Anderson’s “Thick as a Brick 2″ and not Jethro Tull’s. If this confuses you then you should understand that Jethro Tull was/ is a group and lead guitarist Martin Barre is not present here. Nevertheless a lot of the songs here are far more musically complex that the original. The 1972 album is basically one long piece that  was created as a parody of the current fad to create a concept album. On TWO Anderson takes the story of Gerald Bostock as his central theme and paints it with beautiful riffs that he has collected over the course of forty years. A first listening to the album is bound to be a biased experience. If you have no knowledge of Jethro Tull or TAAB (meaning you are under the age of consent or your overuse of phychotic drugs has removed all your memory cells), then it is unlikely you will come upon this album in the first place. If you are a seventies purist, then the idea of trying to recreate anything from that era, however good, would be sacrilege. However if you, like me, are a long time Jethro Tull fan, and embrace Thick as  A Brick 2 with open eyes and ears, then you are in for 52 minutes of pure pleasure. True it is impossible not to make the comparison with the first album and yes Ian Anderson’s voice has changed beyond repair over the years, but given all that, here is a great NEW classic rock album and how many of those have you listened to recently?

So does this ditty work? Is there room in 2012 for music that won’t be covered by screaming teenage hopefuls on Idol and the X Factor? Can Gerald Bostock find true happiness?  The answers are Yes, maybe (though it is unlikely that you will hear it’s music on prime time T.V.) and very unlikely.

So that’s enough words. Go out and buy the album. Oh I forgot, people no longer do that anymore do they? So go and download it now. Come on you owe it yourself.

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There are two people in this world:

Those that have Iphones or Ipads and those that pretend that the alternative is just as groovy (yes they are the ones who still  use the word groovy)

Of those who have Iphones there are those who use it as a phone (I’m pretty sure that around the globe there are at least two such people, maybe in Bulgaria).

All the rest belong to the category who have downloaded 25 billion apps and counting. That’s a lot of apps. That’s a lot of anything period.

Of those people, there are those who download only business apps (yes I found two more such people in Bulgaria) and those who download a bit of everything.

Of the latter group there are those who are loose with their money (I mean it’s only 99 cents right?) and those who every morning check out the daily freed apps and download them irresponsibly.

Which brings me to the issue at hand. True, you need a good currency converter, a newsreader or three, a flashlight, a set of angry birds and fruit smashing ninjas, but what you really really really can’t do without is Plumber Crack.

Come on ladies, how many times have we caught you staring at that ever visible crack that your plumber is proud to display every time your faucet grows a leak. And who are we kidding, if this wasn’t the case, how come you called for him five times in the last month. So ladies your dream has finally come true with the latest Iphone App to hit Itunes.  Plumber Crack’s premise is simple. In front of you is an overweight plumber obligingly bent over, and the App supplies you with ice cubes to throw at him (actually at it!), the rest is a matter of marksmanship. Oh and the company that has released this game is not sexist so for all you guys around the game splashes onto your screen equipped with both male and female plumbers.

Isn’t life perfect?

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I’m falling to pieces
I’m falling apart
My brain’s gone out trekking
Without taking my heart.
My eyes just won’t focus
On anything but soap
I’m no longer brave or beautiful
And finding it hard just to cope.
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My toenails are a disaster
And my hair is almost gone.
My eyebrows rebel righteously
And by left leg is quite numb.
My hearing is embarrassing
I need glasses just to pee.
And don’t ask me with whom I went last night
Ain’t got the faintest idea who that could be.
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I’m breaking up, limb by limb
Like a Lego set undone.
One minute quite the castle king
Out looking for some fun.
But the only running I do now
Is to the local loo.
I wonder if there’s home for me
If I apply some super glue.

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Here is the truth, the whole truth and, well you know the rest.

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