Humour: August 2003 Archives

It's taken me a while to find the cd, but find in full stereo audio Idi Amin's favourite song, "Amazin' Man", as sung by the man himself (backing vocals by John Bird).

Idi Amin - Amazin' Man

Ok, right now, here we're going again from de top and this time, the first violins, uh I want you to plug the instruments into de gas main because I'm not getting the sound I'm liking.

and de wives whats forming de backing group, get round to de front of me where I can keep my eye on you.

Now, I'm counting you with the well known counting [...]

One, Two, .... oh no, what come after two?

FIVE!

Idi, Idi, Idi Amin
Most amazing man there's ever been
He de General, de President, de King of de Scene
Idi, Idi, Idi Amin

Look at the history, it packed with men
What rising to de top and getting chopped again.
No one handed dem de secret of de whole damn thing
You gotta give de population something to sing

Idi, Idi, Idi Amin
Most amazing man there's ever been
He de General, de President, de King of de Scene
Idi, Idi, Idi Amin

Take Hitler, Stalin, Attila de Nun,
No-one got a good word for a single one.
Where these first class geniuses all going wrong
They never got the population singing along.

Idi, Idi, Idi Amin
Most amazing man there's ever been
He de General, de President, de King of de Scene
Idi, Idi, Idi Amin

etc.,

I took the opportunity of the nice weather this evening to have a nice cup of tea with the Fitzwilliam Massive (gaz-ma-taz and johnny-two-beers). I was having trouble drinking my camomile tea, at first I thought I was developing a neuroligcal disease. In fact my inability to hold the cup straight for any length of time was due to the fact that the cups were obviously designed by someone who knew that they would never have to use them themselves!

If you look at the picture the aperature for the 'finger' is actually only about 1cm in diameter, much too small for me (or most people) to get their finger through. This means you are forced to do a "vulcan pinch" on the cup or risk scalding yourself by trying to lever another finger against the sidewall of the cup. Yes, they look very pretty, but in this case functionality is more important.

As promised on nicelytoasted.net's blog I've finally extracted the video (& sound!) for the unlicensed, uninsured, unroadworthy elephant that I saw being driven down near Magdalane Bridge in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago.

See the "Aluminium Elephant" here.