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Betteridges law of headlines is an adage that states “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with the word no.” So the answer to my headline is NO! Unless we start using the word no that is. A new year resolution could be to say no more often. We are living in flabby times with flabby men and women, lacking strength, force, and substance strangely sometimes also having soft, loose, unhealthy flesh from being out of shape. The Starminator comes to mind -who

What a great piece of copy that is. It's up there with Go to work on an Egg or the Ready Brek Central heating for kids television advertisements. The most creative ever perhaps was the sign outside a camping shop - “Now is the Winter of our Discounted Tents” - that is genius. Here is the Manchester Guardian of 1949: Although they made 5,000,000 hats for men last year the hatters of England are not happy. Four out of five men under 35 in some towns are unkindly indifferent t

What is real and what is not real? When I was quite young. I saw the film Chariots of the Gods, based on Eric Von Daniken's book, at what was probably the Saturday morning cinema – a regular showing of roughly child friendly films. However I was badly frightened by one film the details of which I have forgotten. The one nightmarish scene I do remember – they were trying to force a man to sit in a strange seating contraption. Perhaps this echoed my fear of being gassed at the