Latest news stories from Hyperlocal sites tagged with 'humour' :: Page 1
May 2 2012, 10.15AM Alan in Belfast
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival 3-13 May 2012
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival is back, running this year from Thursday 3 to Sunday 13 May. This year must be flying in: it doesn’t feel like thre...
April 28 2012, 11.06PM Alan in Belfast
Festival of Fools - Thursday 3 to Monday 7 May 2012
The Festival of Fools is back for the ninth year. Comedy, circus and – new this year – food! The opening ceremony takes place at 6pm on Thursday 3 ...
March 4 2012, 9.45AM Alan in Belfast
A self sufficient part of the confederation: What might Northern Ireland look like in the future?
The following piece was written last June and published in the latest "Bubbles & Chunks" edition of The Vacuum. Available at all good pubs, cafés a...
September 3 2011, 6.00AM The Hedon Blog
Anti-Smells Day of Action – Campaign Humour 
TODAY’S DAY OF ACTION against foul odours will have its touches of humour. Specifically with the appearance of PONGO, the anti-smells campa...
August 29 2011, 9.25PM Alan in Belfast
Love story in milk ...
The path of true love never did run smooth... especially if you're a milk bottle. It brings out the sentimental in me ...h/t to In These Heels and ...
August 8 2011, 12.12PM BalsallCom.Com
Explosion of hairdressing solutions in Balsall Common explained (finally)
The long running mystery behind the rising numbers of hairdressers operating in Balsall Common finally unravelled yesterday when details of secret ...
August 8 2011, 8.30AM Alan in Belfast
Mac versus PC
With PCI's Tech Camp starting later this week, a recent xkcd cartoon brought back memories of a late night and raucous Mac versus PC debate at camp...
July 4 2011, 12.59PM Virtual-Lancaster blog
Monday Mirth by Pete Scott
Cartoon by Pete Scott. We make no claim that such activities happen in any local council meeting, of course.
May 1 2011, 9.49PM Alan in Belfast
Granny Turismo ...
If zooming around on oversize Segway scooters dressed up as shopping trolleys is your thing, then look out for Granny Turismo motoring around the s...
April 29 2011, 8.40PM Alan in Belfast
12th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (running until 8 May)
The 12th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival kicked off last night with comedian Mark Steel in the Black Box and Abie Philbin Bowman in The Dark Horse....
April 20 2011, 12.45PM EastLondonLines
Everyday life videos make 19-year-old Youtube star
If sharing the most banal and irrelevant information on the web was a competition, Youtube would far outshine the likes of Twitter and Facebook in ...
April 16 2011, 3.09AM Palace Magazine
Underground Art?
With the passing of Elizabeth Taylor in recent weeks, I think it’s time to pay tribute to a man who, could not only could replace the names o...
April 1 2011, 8.00AM Alan in Belfast
Morning Star husband crèche
It's been about ten years since we last had a work lunch trip out to The Morning Star. The menu was full of exotic dishes - crocodile and kangaroo ...
March 21 2011, 9.34AM Palace Magazine
If Katie Melua had a hyperlocal website…
If Katie Melua had a hyperlocal website and loved shepherds pie….she’d probably sing this: There are 38 million internet users i...
March 10 2011, 9.51PM Alan in Belfast
12th Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival advance bookings #cqaf
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival is back for the 12th year. This year it runs between 28 April and 8 May. While the full programme won’t be releas...
February 17 2011, 1.30PM Alan in Belfast
My Blackberry's not working ...
I may have been the last person on the planet to see this ... but just in case I wasn't, sit back and enjoy Ronnie Corbett, Harry Enfield and this ...
December 25 2010, 12.00AM Alan in Belfast
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2010++
Whenever geeks and nerds (fully) inherit the earth, everyone will get the joke in the xkcb.com cartoon below!Until then, a very Merry Christmas and...
September 26 2010, 8.30AM Alan in Belfast
Checking in to your final (Foursquare) destination ...
For all those addicted to foursquare - or even just for people who know what it is!(Copyright Gospel Communications International, Inc - www.revere...
September 12 2010, 7.00AM Alan in Belfast
A hierarchy of vocations - an inverse prayer pyramid?
Does this ring any bells? Dave Walker's cartoons gently point out the weaknesses and silliness in church traditions and processes. Ever been bemuse...
July 11 2010, 9.50AM Alan in Belfast
The seven year sermon?
(Taken while passing a church in Brighton.)
May 10 2010, 12.37PM Virtual-Lancaster blog
Nick Miller's "Political Logic"
Local cartoonist Nick Miller - co-creator of the long-running local cartoon The Really Heavy Greatcoat and a cartoonist for several magazines, came...
April 20 2010, 11.09PM Alan in Belfast
Stormontium (atomic mass of 108)
Much of the political focus is on Westminster at the moment as candidates pound the pavements delivering election literature through our doors (so ...
