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Col and I have been enjoying the hobby of reading the Sky TV listings screen for quite a while now. For those who don't know, it looks like this:



Just read the listings straight down or straight across, and you'll get the occasional giggle. Some of our all-time favourites are:

Everybody... / Scrubs / Frasier
Nigella Bites / Rick Stein
I Didn't Know... / How It's Made
I Think I'm in Love With My Wife / Over Her Dead Body
Merlin / He Sees You When You're Sleeping
How Do I Look? / 18 Kids and... / Too Fat to Walk
Sex With... / Grumpy Old Men

Anybody else do this? What have you found?

I love that! Guess what I'm going to do when I get home

Genius!

I love word association football!

ah! i do that with the bbc news headlines on their site...just reading one or two words from each and then moving onto the next one...

"fears increase over ocelot snatch"

i often play word bingo. Turning over the chanell just to see if the start of teh word on one side, and the finish of the word on the other, makes up a new word.

Just dont do it during countryfile.

When I worked in Blockbuster it was often funny to go along shelves and see the mischiveous sentences made by movie titles, or cinema marquees in America often conjur up their own sources of humour, advertising films together such as "Spy Kids, Blow, Pokemon" all on the same board.

Though nothing will ever rival this for sheer chuckles.

Is this worth taking out a Sky subscription for?

This reminds me of the Google game.

Enter something innocuous such as;

Lady Gaga is...
Is my husband...
Is my wife...
etc. and see the other searched for options that drop down.

I particularly like the "Should I" search, it's amazing what some people ask Google!

A_n_t wrote:This reminds me of the Google game.

Enter something innocuous such as;

Lady Gaga is...
Is my husband...
Is my wife...
etc. and see the other searched for options that drop down.

I particularly like the "Should I" search, it's amazing what some people ask Google!

I was once looking for 'Why do Blockbuster have online and a shop" for Media Studies, got to typing in 'Why do Bl' and well.... it just shows you what enough people search for to make it a legitimate search!

phillipnorthfield wrote:I was once looking for 'Why do Blockbuster have online and a shop" for Media Studies, got to typing in 'Why do Bl' and well.... it just shows you what enough people search for to make it a legitimate search!

I'll be the first to admit I went to google after reading this. Oh my lord!

My favourite one was "was is there a dead pakistani on my couch?", I did not understand the reference at the time. Doesn't come up in google anymore. Though I notice "why is the rum gone?" still does.

This website has some fantastic ones

http://failblog.org/tag/autocomplete-me/

Oh thanks Lozey ... there will go another few hours of my life !! lol x

Having helped train Guide Dog puppies I can answer the first one of, 'Who picks up Guide Dog poo..' they're trained to 'go' before they go out walkies etc (the command is 'busy, busy, busy') so whoever else lives at the Guide Dog owners address picks it up !