The Snug

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/6963520.stm

Not content with popping down the road and giving Preston NE a sound pasting in the 2nd round of the Carling Cup, Morecambe climbed aboard the bus and travelled further afield to make the mighty Wolverhampton Wanders look ordinary last night.

The plucky league 2 team made the team placed 3rd in the Championship look ordinary and beat them 3-1 after extra time.

Hurrah for the Shrimps, and bring on a big away tie in the 3rd round

54 seconds in, you will notice the worlds most powerful idiot having his wrist watch stolen. Hope it wasn't a present from Cheney, otherwise it will be the Naughty Step for George again.

A light dusting of snow has fallen across much of the south of England and this has led to bedlam as motorists switch to tailgating mode and the railways grind to a halt.

Me, I'm reminded of two things. Firstly the animal footprints in the park on my walk in to work as the sun rose, and secondly the time it snowed heavily while we were at university and Harry wrote "JESES" in foot high letters in the snow in the middle of the night. For a Christian, his spelling wasn't up to much

A quick update on the Weymouth situation: the Terras owner has agreed to fund the team until the end of the season whilst a supporters trust is set up to fund raise. As a result of this, the first team has been taken off the transfer list and given a big bag of sweets each to take their mind off of the turmoil.

Perhaps Kev can provide us with exact details of the make up of the bag of sweets and answer the burning question, are Blackjacks as nice as we remember them being?

Seeing as how H & L are to be married this Saturday, I thought I’d share with you all this little gem that landed in my inbox the other week. It seems that a Sudanese man was caught in a compromising position with a goat.

Sadly that isn’t a story I haven’t heard before, as a man up here in the North East back in 2004 was caught having oral sex with a horse. If you read the Northern Echo article you can see the man was quoted as saying he was being "nice to the horse". With his defence being that he’d slipped under the horse whilst walking across the field!

The oft heard cry is that the adverts are better than the TV shows that interrupt them.

Even Channel 4 dedicated a show to the 100 Greatest TV Ads (not that the title 100 Greatest… or Top 100… is an unusual sight on Channel 4) with the Guinness surfers coming out top, possibly helped by the soundtrack supplied by Leftfield and the extracts from Moby Dick read by Louis Mells. At the moment there is one advert that has me in stitches whenever it comes on and that’s the current one featuring Derek.

I tend to get home from work (by means of pedestrian perambulation too I might add) at around twenty to six of the p.m. variety. Claire is all for a little bit of Neighbours to gently ease us into home but I prefer something more dramatic and as she often cooks the dinner, I often get my way.

At ten to six in the evening the cable and SKY channel UKGold has a piece of televisual gold - it has the Hasselhoff jump. Every episode of Baywatch is awash with big hair and future Playboy Bunnies but all this is only fluff as each story drives relentlessly towards the Hoff's big moment. One day it might be from a boat onto another boat, another from a helicopter onto a boat or a truck to another truck, it matters not because at ten to six Greenwich Mean Time, Hasselhoff jumps from one moving vehicle to another as regular as clockwork.