Stand up comedian John Cleese, who has been married thrice, is frolicking these days and credits all the fun in his life to new lover Jennifer Wade. Cleese says his new love – 31 years his junior – is making him laugh like a “10-year-old”. And he has revealed how—unlike his second and third marriages—he [...]
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Three times married John Cleese ‘laughs like a 10-year-old’ with new love
November 16th, 2010 |
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BBC ‘nearly killed off ‘Monty Python’
August 4th, 2010 |
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‘Monty Python’ star Terry Jones has revealed that BBC executives had almost killed off the television comedy sketch over fears that it would not bring in any money. Jones, 68, who devised the show along with John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam, said bosses at the corporation were not very [...]
Whitney Houston Sails out of the U.K.
April 21st, 2010 |
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Whitney Houston is the one for whom; the show must go on for whatever happens. The singer has severe respiratory problems, because of which she cancelled her three shows on her European tour, but still she is not missing her show in Dublin.
Due to the eruption of Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajokull cancelled all flights throughout [...]
Billy Connolly on your sat-nav?
April 16th, 2010 |
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A press release informs me that I can now be given instructions by the voice of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly on the TomTom sat-nav.
Other available voices include John Cleese, Snoop Dogg, KITT, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Kim Cattrall, Eddie Izzard, Sven Goran Eriksson – and even Homer Simpson.
If you choose to download Billy Connolly and his Glaswegian accent, there are a few quips thrown in for added authenticity I suppose – here are some examples:.
“After 300 yards you have reached your destination. You may thank me and remember that without me none of this would have been possible and you would have been hopelessly lost.”
“Toll charge. I’m only doing my job. Don’t shoot the messenger.”
The mind boggles a bit. Will fellow Glaswegian comedian Frankie Boyle end up going down this road and what sort of ‘jolly quips’ would he make?
Billy Connolly on your sat-nav?
April 16th, 2010 |
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A press release informs me that I can now be given instructions by the voice of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly on the TomTom sat-nav.
Other available voices include John Cleese, Snoop Dogg, KITT, Burt Reynolds, Dennis Hopper, Kim Cattrall, Eddie Izzard, Sven Goran Eriksson – and even Homer Simpson.
If you choose to download Billy Connolly and his Glaswegian accent, there are a few quips thrown in for added authenticity I suppose – here are some examples:.
“After 300 yards you have reached your destination. You may thank me and remember that without me none of this would have been possible and you would have been hopelessly lost.”
“Toll charge. I’m only doing my job. Don’t shoot the messenger.”
The mind boggles a bit. Will fellow Glaswegian comedian Frankie Boyle end up going down this road and what sort of ‘jolly quips’ would he make?
Jessica Biel’s dating advice for men: “No cheesy linesâ€
December 8th, 2009 |
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Hollywood star Jessica Biel has doled out advice for men finding it hard to find a date.
“No cheesy lines,” the actress said in a video interview in Los Angeles.
“A cheesy line is ”Do you have a mirror in your pocket because I can see myself in your pants?”,” Biel laughs.
The Daily Telegraph reports, her latest [...]
The latest Lotus proActive is out
June 19th, 2009 |
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The latest edition of Lotus Engineering’s proActive e-magazine is now out and available for free download. It includes a particularly interesting feature on City Cars first published in Automotive Engineer that is well worth a read. It’s key reading for anyone seriously interested in the segment and the fundamentals that drive design in small cars.
What else is in the latest edition? As John Cleese would say in Monty Python, ‘And now for something completely different…’
I interviewed the head of a company in the Netherlands that is about to commission the world’s largest second generation biofuel manufacturing plant (BioMCN makes bio-methanol from glycerine that is a by-product of biodiesel production). BioMCN’s CEO, Rob Voncken, was certainly an interesting interviewee: a trained scientist with a business brain who is also motivated by the idea of doing something good for the environment.
He was charming and cool as a cucumber when I talked to him, but it’s quite a project he is in charge of. He could be forgiven a bit of stress as commercial production inauguration approaches. The business opportunity? In the short-term it’s about substituting bio-ethanol for bio-methanol in the gasoline alcohol blend (it can be mixed and we get ‘A85′ rather than E85 with all its food chain incursion woes). There are some pretty powerful interests behind ethanol though.
And there’s also a fascinating insider view from the Lotus marketing department on how they approached the press launch for the Evora. It’s clearly a highly targeted exercise and they don’t do model launches often, so when they do, they put some serious thought into it. And they don’t exactly scrimp judging by the pic of the hotel on Loch Lomond. I just hope the Scottish weather was kind.
If you are signed up already for proActive, you should automatically receive an email with a link for the pdf. If not, why not get yourself signed up – it’s free.