Will the Real Fake Fab Four please stand up?

This is a couple of months old, but I've only just found it.

Beatles tribute band, The Fab Four sues Beatles tribute band, The Fab 4 for er... being "essentially identical in sound and appearance".

Only in America. Probably...

Will the Real Fake Fab Four please stand up?

This is a couple of months old, but I've only just found it.

Beatles tribute band, The Fab Four sues Beatles tribute band, The Fab 4 for er... being "essentially identical in sound and appearance".

Only in America. Probably...

Limp

Ooh, my new shoes are rubbing my ankles. I shall have to nip across to Boots (Hah! – no, really. I don’t know how global the Boots brand is, these days, North American chums and elsewhere, but Boots, the Chemist is a proper, real life pharmacy/drugstore chain) and but some plasters while the chink on my ankle is only a sore split rather than a gaping torn blister. (Didn’t want that sandwich, did you?). I am fed up with having to break shoes in; they always break me in first. It’s ages since I bought a new pair and they fitted perfectly first time and lasted years. I dread new shoes and their attempts to flay my feet.

I only have one pair of shoes that I can wear for any length of time (other than the now very tatty ones that I wear in the garden) and they are decidedly two-tone, though not to the extent that it’s noticeable unless you look closely. Somewhere on this journal, posted about a year ago, there is a photo, if you really need to investigate.

The Doctor Martins I bought a few months ago still have the upper hand. My feet were so sore after two days of those that I haven’t used them since. I can only walk so many yards in the otherwise nice pair of Chelsea Boots I’ve had for about five years. Don’t mention the DMs I’ve had for over 20 years.

Each pair is comfortable when I put them on and remain comfortable while I am within distance to take them off and change them. As soon as I am out of that literal comfort zone, the fangs come out and they start ripping my feet to shreds. Maybe I should just go Hobbit in my old age (A hobbit giant?) and stop wearing shoes altogether. I could spend a week or two with sore paws and then just develop thick soled feet as we were designed to do.

Or develop flight.

Excuse me, I am going to limp off to the far corner where it’s quiet and evolve for a bit.

Limp

Ooh, my new shoes are rubbing my ankles. I shall have to nip across to Boots (Hah! – no, really. I don’t know how global the Boots brand is, these days, North American chums and elsewhere, but Boots, the Chemist is a proper, real life pharmacy/drugstore chain) and but some plasters while the chink on my ankle is only a sore split rather than a gaping torn blister. (Didn’t want that sandwich, did you?). I am fed up with having to break shoes in; they always break me in first. It’s ages since I bought a new pair and they fitted perfectly first time and lasted years. I dread new shoes and their attempts to flay my feet.

I only have one pair of shoes that I can wear for any length of time (other than the now very tatty ones that I wear in the garden) and they are decidedly two-tone, though not to the extent that it’s noticeable unless you look closely. Somewhere on this journal, posted about a year ago, there is a photo, if you really need to investigate.

The Doctor Martins I bought a few months ago still have the upper hand. My feet were so sore after two days of those that I haven’t used them since. I can only walk so many yards in the otherwise nice pair of Chelsea Boots I’ve had for about five years. Don’t mention the DMs I’ve had for over 20 years.

Each pair is comfortable when I put them on and remain comfortable while I am within distance to take them off and change them. As soon as I am out of that literal comfort zone, the fangs come out and they start ripping my feet to shreds. Maybe I should just go Hobbit in my old age (A hobbit giant?) and stop wearing shoes altogether. I could spend a week or two with sore paws and then just develop thick soled feet as we were designed to do.

Or develop flight.

Excuse me, I am going to limp off to the far corner where it’s quiet and evolve for a bit.

Benny Pope

Well colour me unimpressed.

It seems that the Westminster area is going to be severely disrupted on Friday by the visit of an elderly German ex-Pat named Joe Ratzinger.

It won’t be so bad around my corner of the world, but it will be busier, since he seems to be hitting all the tourist spots at the same time with the exception of the Palace and much of the Westminster area is to be closed off.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/friday-17-september-1130-2100.pdf

I’m all for a bit of tourism, but most people just get the guided tours on the open topped bus.

Benny Pope

Well colour me unimpressed.

It seems that the Westminster area is going to be severely disrupted on Friday by the visit of an elderly German ex-Pat named Joe Ratzinger.

It won’t be so bad around my corner of the world, but it will be busier, since he seems to be hitting all the tourist spots at the same time with the exception of the Palace and much of the Westminster area is to be closed off.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/friday-17-september-1130-2100.pdf

I’m all for a bit of tourism, but most people just get the guided tours on the open topped bus.

Papal Visit

Earlier I mentioned the fact that Friday will be scrambled a little in the Westminster area by the Papal Visit.

Well, I may have grumbled about the inconvenience, but really can you stay mad when such an event spawns such marvellous souvenirs as these:



Ship of Fools is always entertaining - I see that the mystery worshipper has been a church not far from here in Goodmayes- but all this worthy tat really spoils us!

Both ellefurtle and I find ourselves quite taken by the Benedictaphone.

Papal Visit

Earlier I mentioned the fact that Friday will be scrambled a little in the Westminster area by the Papal Visit.

Well, I may have grumbled about the inconvenience, but really can you stay mad when such an event spawns such marvellous souvenirs as these:



Ship of Fools is always entertaining - I see that the mystery worshipper has been a church not far from here in Goodmayes- but all this worthy tat really spoils us!

Both ellefurtle and I find ourselves quite taken by the Benedictaphone.