There’s also, the history of “Galileo Galileo Figgy Roll” in which the famous mathematician’s perverse penchant for fruit-based snacks gets him into trouble with the local authorities while he tries to prove his theories, often riffing on Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody while he does so. These one-off pieces of genius sit alongside traditional heroes such as Eight Ace, the drunkard who only needs £1.49 for eight cans of his favourite rot-gut beer, against the pleas of his wife and malnourished children, and Roger Mellie, the entirely inappropriate vanilla TV presenter, Alan Partridge long before Alan Partridge ever existed.īut my favourites aren’t the comic strips – they’re the ludicrious, faux-tabloid news sections. One story, “Treasures of Sierra Madre found under Anthony Quinn’s foreskin”, made me laugh so hard on a train – in public – that I thought I was going to choke to death. “Frank Man 2 Man chat”, a false sex chat line, had the enticing lines: ‘Fancy a quick half after the work?’ and ‘Do you fancy watching the football this weekend?’ The fake adverts, hidden in among the real ones, have also caused many a belly-laugh. There are also Letterbocks and Top Tips, examples of which have both been published in hardback. It’s hard to explain the appeal of these snippets, contributed by readers over the years, but I am without fail creased up with laughter when I read these.
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