"Hold your dork for Zork" competition clears up last of gamer infestation

RANCHO CORDOVA, Sacramento, Sunday (UNN) — The plague of gamers affecting Western society is being cleared up at last. After the fabulous success of the "Hold your wee for a Wii," "Hold your piss free for a PS3" and "Hold your cocks for an XBox" initiatives, the new "Hold your dork for Zork" meme infection is spreading through the last dregs of the older gamer population.

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BBC plans documentary "I Love The C-Word".

LORD REITH'S GYROSCOPIC TOMB, White City, Saturday (Al-BBCzeera) — The BBC came under new fire on Saturday after it announced plans for a £200,000 TV documentary, I Love The C-Word, devoted to the most offensive word in the English language.

I Love The C-Word is the latest in a growing number of BBC programmes to feature the C-word in recent years, despite internal BBC research showing that it is the one thing viewers hate the most. It has been used frequently in the award-winning BBC Four political sitcom The Thick Of It, starring Tessa Jowell.

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I think I can make it right tomorrow. I think I need more sleep today.

I have been thoroughly failing to keep up with LJ again. If there's something on, please tell me here. Hard to keep up with text telly and be creative — the UnNews is just jumping into the net without me even thinking about it. It's half way through the month and I've only done about eleven and a half thousand words, so it's not quite NaNoWriMo. Also, people might actually read it.

We looked at and applied for a lovely house on Saturday and redcountess and arkady paid the deposit today. Of course I WON'T THINK ABOUT IT unless and until we get it because THE DEAL'S NOT DONE UNTIL THE DEAL IS DONE. No it isn't. ... Lovely house, though.

Today was a pounding sodomite of a day at work, with me being the only one actually in until 12:30, when another co-sufferer showed up to cope with the industrial-grade stupid. It's very special being out of Christmas lockdown. I had to work!

From Friday evening (hence no Dreadnought. Bugger.) until the following Friday morning I am on call. As such, I am hereby putting out a call for people to meet me and GO OUT FOR A DRINK or ten tomorrow, Wednesday and/or Thursday. I'm looking at you ... And then of course there are people to visit me by day next week! There's a pub down the street in need of investigation ...