Flora Graham

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Blog going down

After 7 years of blogging, it's time to take a break...now that my ramblings are being published by the Big British Castle! :)

Friday, January 23, 2009

A walk in the park

Amnesty's funny little vid about keeping it real with Obama.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Then I swallowed it

While covering the sale of the Wittelsbach diamond at Christie's today, I got to manhandle the £16.4 million diamond a bit (no, this isn't my hand, but you might see it on CBC Newsworld tonight!)

Wow...that would pay off my student loans.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Obviously, that is irritating

Oxford, which is allowed to be this pedantic, has compiled a list of the top ten most annoying phrases.

I completely agree with their number 1, which was a source of major mental abuse from an old flatmate. However they have missed out on my two top faves:
1. I'm not being funny
2. Obviously

For example, "Obviously, I'm not being funny, love, but you look like crap."

Also some new phrases that are battling with the below-mentioned Main St/High St and Fit for Purpose:
1. Ruin the party
2. Cock-a-hoop

Yeah, I know, weird stuff!

The Oxford top 10:

1 - At the end of the day

2 - Fairly unique

3 - I personally

4 - At this moment in time

5 - With all due respect

6 - Absolutely

7 - It's a nightmare

8 - Shouldn't of

9 - 24/7

10 - It's not rocket science

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Separated at birth?

I want Michelle Obama to do some Aliens-style butt kicking at the White House!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Have a little imagination

"Wall Street versus Main Street" is the new shorthand running rampant across the news, and it's only taken about a month to go to the top of the clich� league tables.

eg. "Financial crisis: Juggling Wall Street and Main Street". Wall Street is the financial sphere, Main Street* is consumers and people and regular stuff.

See how bad it's gotten--Main Street as adjective: "The spreading financial gloom that envelops Wall Street has hit that most Main Street of American sports: NASCAR." (link) Barf!

I challenge you to find a mention of this foul phrase before about 18 September. It's the new "fit for purpose", which was new enough when John Reid said it about the Home Office in May 2006 to require lengthy deconstruction on the Today programme, but is now chucked out randomly about everything from A-levels to knitting.

* I'm not even going to go into the whole Main Street/High Street distinction in the UK, although it does add another layer of ickyness to the phrase when used in Britain.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Palin writes her own jokes

I don't know how this is becoming some kind of Palin-themed video blog, really I don't. But I couldn't pass up this last little one.

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