Man in a Shed: 2nd annual Blogger's Silly week is go for 26 July to 1 August

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

2nd annual Blogger's Silly week is go for 26 July to 1 August

Its that time of year again. The MSM is on holiday ( or wish they were ) and any daft story gets coverage.

So its time for Blogger's Silly week.

The Aim is to Entertain ( whilst not being sued in any legal jurisdictions that your country has extradition treaties with ).

That means making stuff up and even reporting true stuff. ( Examples from last year here ).

Add #SillyWeek to any tweets and we may as well use it as a blogging keyword also ! ( I'll keep an eye on them and try to keep tags on the daftness here ).

Now to go in search for a logo this year ... ( any ideas gratefully received ).

PS The aim is to entertain, but not offend ( unless its politicians or the MSM of course ).

Update: I had a graphic - but for some reason I can't upload it on blogger right now. Must be a bug of some sort. OK managed to get it into the layout - but not the post. No idea why not.

5 comments:

John M Ward said...: Oh, I'll be having another go this year.

I managed to post around half a dozen silly items last time, and aim to do much the same again, one per day if possible.; 7:52 am
John M Ward said...: Perhaps this well-known image might suffice as this year's logo. It's the right kind of size as well.; 11:57 am
Welshcakes Limoncello said...: Oh, good! I do like being silly!; 12:14 am
Dick Puddlecote said...: I'm in. Got a puffer scheduled for Sunday.; 9:56 pm
Brew Wales said...: Here's my go:
http://beerbrewer.blogspot.com/2010/07/scottish-brewery-brews-beer-made-from.html; 2:56 pm

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"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman