Friday, 29 May 2009

Newsbite


Today the national press published one of those stories that has been appearing in print probably since Gutenburg; Jesus' face in a Marmite lid.

The family who discovered the saucy marvel said couldn't believe their eyes when they saw it.

I remember a kitschy little shop in my university town, where you could buy a piece of toast with JC's face burnt onto one side.

I also very much enjoyed the recent coverage of HM's Customs & Excise dispute over McVitie's classification of Jaffa Cakes. VAT laws state that tax is applied to chocolate covered biscuits, but not cakes. "The Jaffa Cake is a biscuit! Pay the damn tax!" HM said. "It's a cake! It goes hard when stale when a biscuit would go soft!" retorted McV's. "Hooray for cakes!" said the judge and promptly ruled in favour of the defendant. Then the entire court enjoyed the lovely 12" Jaffa that had been created especially and lamented about the complete waste of time spent on such a trivial and costly debate.

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