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Prince Harry and his girlfriend are planning a trip to Iceland, before a skiing trip in Verbier. A spokesperson told Weedkiller’s Royal Correspondent that the Prince had visited Iceland before, but was unimpressed with the sausage rolls and the frozen chips.

An American diva is suing the Federal Government, claiming that a botched abdominal procedure left her unable to perform without breaking wind, and also acute incontinence. Her last performance in Cosi Fanny Tutti was described as extremely moving with a prevailing wind.

A recently uncovered document claims that ‘Ping Pong’ played a major role in bringing the cold war to an end, but, alas, nobody has ever heard of him.

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Paul B’s Stone Age Times #20

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A Mexican motorist, flagged down at a police checkpoint, was royally dropped in it by a pet parakeet perched on his back seat. ”Driving license please, Señor” requested the officer; ”He hasn’t got one“ squawked the bird; “Insurance, Señor?”; “He’s got none”; “Road tax, Señor?”; “No road tax either” came the response from the bird “And he’s been drinking beer and tequila in the prickly cactus bar all day”. The officer said ”Well Señor, your feathered friend in the back has landed you in a lot of trouble”. ”It’s not mine” grumbled the man “It, belongs to my mother-in-law”.

Weedkiller’s Elite Employment Bureau have some exciting opportunities on offer this week. Is discretion your middle name? Do you have conversational Greek and German? If so Buckingham Palace is beckoning. For the generous salary of £276.92 per week, you could find yourself running the royal baths, cleaning priceless antiques, servicing 78 bathrooms, cleaning lavatories, valeting duties for visiting dignitaries, including dry cleaning, packing and unpacking suitcases, arranging breakfast service, making the royal beds, cleaning 760 internal windows, polishing countless medals and insignia, walking the corgis, ensuring a continuous supply of Bombay mix and pork scratchings for Her Majesty and playing hide and seek with Prince Edward. Accommodation is provided, if you ever get the chance to use it. Buckingham Palace is an equal opportunities employer.

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A speeding escaped Ostrich wreaked havoc on a main road near Tunbridge Wells, overtaking cars at breakneck speed, causing a tailback and delays of 20 minutes or so. A concerned motorist, who phoned the traffic police, told us that they were totally uninterested, they just buried their heads in the sand.

A former hairdresser, from Moss Side in Manchester, has been shortlisted for ‘The Mars One Project’, which aims to create a settlement on the Red Planet. The ten year rigorous training programme, which includes training in the quest for extra terrestrials, will culminate in 24 space pioneers blasting off in ‘The Rover Space Craft’. Miss Potter told Weedkiller’s Raving Reporter that, if she is successful, the thing she will miss most is the soap ‘Coronation Street‘. However this is one Rover that won’t be returning.

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Stone Age Times #19

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Hello Possums.

A Canadian woman, who was knocked unconscious after tumbling from her horse, awoke to find herself speaking with a Scottish accent in yet another case of foreign language syndrome. Her first words were “Independence for Canada, down with the bloody Sassenachs“.

A 54 year old Chinese man murdered his close friend and neighbour, before committing suicide, so as to have a chess playing companion in heaven. Other residents said they were both fanatics and had heated exchanges during games. The murderer was a real oddball and an unpredictable firebrand, and his victim was the only man who could keep him in check.

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Stone Age Times #18

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Hello Possums,

coffeeEveryone survived? Good. I bet those New Year resolutions are tumbling like wheat before the scythe.

Her Majesty the Queen broke with tradition after the Christmas service at Sandringham by declining to accept flowers from well wishers, including a ten year old boy who had traveled fifty miles with his parents. The reason being that One did not want to be bouquetlate for One’s Xmas luncheon, as last year the vichyssoise was stone cold, when the Royals finally sat down to luncheon.

Father Christmas brought Prince Andrew a Royal Monopoly set, where one pays much more than the properties are worth, and with a golf club (St Andrews). Prince Edward got a Royal Marines Action Man set, but soon tired of them and back in the box they presentwent. Prince Charles got a book of nursery rhymes to read to his seedlings at bedtime.

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Stone Age Times #17

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Stone Age Times #16

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Stone Age Times #15

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Paul B’s Weedkiller Weekly #58

Hello Santa’s Little Helpers.

donkeyA church in Neath, South Wales, is using a real donkey for Mary to ride, in their annual nativity play. Pretty straightforward you may think. Oooooooh no! Enter stage left …  Yes, you’ve guessed it, the ‘health & safety’ brigade’: little Mary must don a crash helmet for the hazardous gallop to the byre. Her steed is Exocet Enid, a retired Blackpool donkey with a fiery streak in her veins. Of course ‘The Magi’ must wear high vis vests, their camels are to have hazard lights and indicators. Any adults involved in the production will be required to take a CRB check. The byre should pass fire safety inspection, a fully equipped postnatal team will be on standby and strictly no photographs allowed.

plantWeedkiller’s Television & Film Critic was appalled at the poor standard of the Royal Variety Performance recently; “third rate entertainment” he grumbled. Poor old Camilla was mistaken for Dame Edna, and Prince Charles had gone missing but was eventually found in the foyer talking to the plants.

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Stone Age Times #14

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salmonWell, Parwich gourmets rejoice: going on sale soon is the world’s poshest fish pie, containing Scottish wild salmon poached in Moet Chandon, Loch Fyne oysters, lobster tails and Perigourdine truffles, topped off with a 24 carat gold crumb. A garnish of the finest beluga caviar, nestling on mother of pearl spoons, finishes off this superlative dish. You and your beloved can don your nose bags for the princely sum of £314.16, excluding chips and mushy peas of course.

emuAn Australian rancher has appeared in court, accused of cruelty, after he rode into town on the back of an emu. In mitigation he said “Of course I wouldn’t normally roid an emu your worships, but ya see me joey was bloody well crook at the toime“.

Stringent reforms proposed by ‘The British Boxing Board Of Control’ have been strongly objected to, and have resulted in complaints to ‘The European Court Of Human Rights and Lefts’.

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knightChannel 4’s ‘Time Team’ claim to have located the true site of the Battle of Hastings, which is approximately 600ft from Battle Abbey. There is a cafe, a pub and a betting shop near to the site, which suggests that King Harold’s army had a belly buster fry-up, a few pints and an each-way bet on the outcome of the battle.

santa1A recent survey has revealed that one in six adults still believe in Father Christmas, and even write to him expressing their wish-list. This of course is a nonsense, as nowadays you can e-mail the old boy at santaclaus@northpole.com.

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Stone Age Times #13

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Stone Age Times #12

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Paul B’s Weedkiller Weekly #55

Hello Possums.

We know that the approaching festive season is a difficult time for Welsh ex-pats in Parwich, as the dew kissed valleys lament for their lost children, the deeply moving harmonies of The Welsh Male Voice Choir, images of coal miners emerging raven black and weary from the bowels of the earth, the golden daffodils, the spring lambs frolicking in the emerald meadows. But fear not, help is at hand to assuage your nostalgia in the form of Kevin phoneboxBeresford’s calendar ‘The Fast Disappearing Red Telephone Boxes Of Wales‘. Kevin also produced this year’s calendar ‘The Roundabouts Of Britain‘, riveting eh!.

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Stone Age Times #11

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Hello Possums,

lighteningAs you are probably aware, due to a lightning strike by Weedkiller’s Technical Support Team, we were unable to go to press last week: their main demand being to have Xmas day off with pay. Outrageous!

anniversaryWe must apologize for the delay in responding to the deluge of congratulatory comments on our first anniversary, but our PR man insists on answering each one personally.

We suffered another setback, when Grog Wallace turned down our offer to join our Food Columnists, saying that he would rather eat in one of his own restaurants than work for us.

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Stone Age Times #10

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Weedkiller’s IT Department sent in the following message:

We extend our apologies to all our loyal readers for a temporary disruption in normal services. Although coffee is essential fuel for the smooth functioning of our Journalist and Editorial staff, it failed to have a similar stimulating effect on Weedkiller’s computer mainframe. We are working night and day until the system is restored to full functioning. However, our Cartoonist eschews reliance on this new-fangled technology, so Wednesday’s ‘Stone Age Times’ will be out on schedule.

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Paul B’s Weedkiller Weekly #53

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Well, if the weather on November the fifth 1605 was anything like we have at present, I think old Guido Fawkes and his co conspirators may have fireworksabandoned their attempt to blow Parliament to kingdom come, and retired to the nearest ale house.

A good-hearted couple, who rescued two battery hens, Margo and Valerie, have commissioned a bespoke tailor in Bournemouth to supply them with pulletovers to stave off the Winter chills. The lady chickenstold us that ‘chilli chicken‘ was definitely off the menu.

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Stone Age Times #9

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Paul B’s Weekly Weedkiller #52

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flyNuneaton: A drinker was horrified, when he claimed to have discovered around fifty dead flies at the bottom of his bottle of Foster’s lager, purchased from his local Azda store. A spokesperson for the store told us, as a precautionary measure, the supplier will only be using blue bottles in future production.

beansCookhill, Redditch: Opportunist thieves have stolen 6,400 tins of baked beans from a Skania lorry parked up overnight whilst the driver slept. Police suspect there toastmay be a connection to an earlier incident where a thousand thick sliced loaves were taken from a Kemp’s bakery delivery van.

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Stone Age Times #8

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Paul B’s Weedkiller Weekly #51

Hello Possums

bellOYEZ! OYEZ! Derby’s town criers have been criticized over their exorbitant call out charges.

imageThere now follows a portly political broadcast on behalf of the N.F.H. (No Fracking Here) Party:

Hello good folk of Partridge,
Lord Scottpress here,

I am synthetic to your constellations regaling the distraction of shale gas from areas of upstanding national beatification. As you know if Labour were still in power there would be none of this fracking nonsense as we were more than culpable of producing our own natural gas. Anyway I digest so downwards and side ways. You may join in the fracking debate in the House of Lords but please avoid these times:

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Stone Age Times #7

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featherdusterWell in the words of the great Ken Dodd, “What a lovely day for sticking a pound of tripe down your y-fronts, standing on your head and singing Rule Britannia backwards“.

corgiBuckingham Palace are to recruit a responsible person to provide care and to exercise the Queen’s pet dogs. Applicants must be Corgi registered.

gorillaOklahoma police have arrested a man, who attempted to rob a convenience store whilst wearing a gorilla mask. The man told the court, in his defense, that he was driven by desperation as he didn’t have two ‘ape knees’ to rub together.

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Stone Age Times #6

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Hello Possums,

Well just one more fence to clear, ‘the Halloween Handicap Hurdle’, then it’s into the home strait for jingle tills, that magical time of the year for overspending, over indulgence and over familiarity. However, if you are after something special for your loved one, look no further. For a mere £55.00 per head there is on offer a festive treat at Highgrove House, courtesy of Prince Charles. Up to a hundred paying guests will be treated to organic mulled wine on arrival, followed by a two course dinner, with organic crackers to pull, an opportunity to catch Camilla under the mistletoe, coffee and mince pies, then a rousing session of traditional carols and, to round off the evening, charades and Twister.

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Stone Age Times #5

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Paul B’s Weedkiller Weekly #48

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clock1Weedkiller’s elite Employment Agency Bureau has been engaged in the search for a suitable applicant for the position of horological conservator to maintain the Royal Collection of over a thousand clocks. The said timepieces are in various Royal Residences around the Country. Applicants must be time-served clock2apprentices, a generous salary is on offer, which included traveling expenses and double chime on weekends and bank holidays. We have been assured that this is a bona fide position, and not a wind up!

Tesco’s has been fined £45,000, after health inspectors discovered a super mouse, twice the size of normal mice, munching on raw mouse2chicken in one of their flagship stores. The supermarket are appealing for donations of mousetraps however small, ‘as every little helps‘.

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Stone Age Times #4

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Weedkiller Weekly #47

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clownWest York, Pennsylvania: An 83 year old professional clown has denied culpability, after crashing his van whilst attempting a u-turn on a busy highway. The arresting officer told the court, that the man’s over-sized shoes were the main cause of him losing control of his vehicle; a claim that the defendant hotly contested. As the local court were unable to bring the case to a conclusion, it has now been referred to the Clown Prosecution Service.

empire state19 year old Jyote Anige, from Nagpur, is confirmed by the Guinness Book Of Records as the smallest person in the World. Jyote stands at two feet and half an inch tall, and hopes to break into the lucrative world of Bollywood. On a recent promotional tour of New York she visited the Empire State Building, but was only able to visit the second floor as she was unable to reach any higher buttons.

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Weedkiller Weekly #46

Hello Possums,

Well, it’s been a tumultuous week here at Weedkiller Headquarters; despite all our efforts, our recently appointed food guru, the fabulous Delia Smith, has been lured back to Waitrose. sofaOur interior design team bent over backwards to create the ideal working environment for her by painting her office in canary yellow with upholstery in Norwich City colours; her package included luncheon vouchers, canariesbus pass and even her own personal keys to the executive loos; all to no avail. Pippa has also declined, due to her festive commitments at Waitrose. She is presenting her festive tips: such as the self-pulling cracker for people on their own at crackersChristmas, an indoor snow machine, a pack of expensive wine labels to disguise cheap plonk, tabletop hock and a nice goose on the dinner-table.

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Stone Age Times #3

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Weedkiller Weekly #45

Hello Possums,

Wait! Hold the front page, Scoop! Scoop! Breaking news: never mind the Syrian crisis, the overcrowded prisons, the unsustainable immigration putting pressure on housing, hospitals, schools and social security… wait for it… Pippa Middleton had a crush on her hockey coach, which deserved front page coverage in most daily newspapers.

The first ever romantic audiobook for chickens has been commissioned by “The Happy Egg Company”, after research revealed that listening to stories encourages broody hens to lay tastier eggs. Although still in the embryonic stage, the plot will revolve around Molly the hen and her quest to woo Clooney, a handsome cockerel. The hens also enjoy operas by Giblet & Sullivan such as The Parrots of Penzance, hymns such as Onward Crispy Soldiers and Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay.

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Uggy and Oggy

Another day in the life of Paul B’s Stone Age duo,

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Weedkiller Weekly #44

Hello Possums,

Zepplin523,000 Germans have invaded our shores – but don’t panic, Mr. Mainwaring. Stand down the Warmington-on-Sea home guard; these are tourists with an apparently insatiable appetite for our beaches and coastal paths. Many of them make a pilgrimage to the site where the first Zeppelin was destroyed by specially designed incendiary bullets. Wreaths of sausages are left by visitors, in memory of the millions of Germans, who were banned from scoffing their favourite Bratwurst, as the bratwurstcow skins were used in the manufacture of gas containers. So, if you ever wonder why airships have teats, there is your answer.

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