Snapple

With reference to Apple's recent victory over Samsung in Apple's local court (American justice - the best that money can buy), in which the rectangle with rounded corners, coincidentally the same shape as my 20-year-old coffee table, was deemed Apple's proprietary design, I am wondering why Apple haven't claimed a patent for phones which are ckufing heavy.

A Bit Rich

Those privileged young rascals, "Prince" Harry amongst them, who got themselves into the papers last week, are complaining. Arthur Landon, whose US$350 million fortune derives from his father's arms trading, apparently sees no irony in accusing someone without an unearned blood-money fortune of "despicable" behaviour just because she took some pictures of his friend, whose fortune has a similar taint if you go back far enough, and sold them. Perhaps money making activities only cease to be despicable when people are killed as a result.

Apparently, it put "a real dampener" on their holiday, some of which they paid for themselves. How awful. I wonder how much of a dampener all those lovely arms caused.

And one Rosa Monckton, who prefers to use her maiden, peerage-linked name, and who has (perhaps not coincidentally) made something of a career out of being a "close friend" of Diana, the Latter Day Whore of Babylon "Princess" of Wales, "insisted" that the ginga Prince had done nothing “immoral or wrong”. Herself an offspring of a "viscount" and therefore by definition almost 'honourable', and again it seems with no intended irony, she told the Evening Standard: “His mother always thought that there should be a distinction between her private life and her public life" (except when being interviewed by the BBC and talking about Camilla) ...... "The same should apply to her sons, both of whom are serving their country." (that's funny, I didn't see them amongst the soldiers providing security at the Olympics. Weren't they both enjoying free tickets to the best seats?). "He isn’t married" (unlike his mother who was shagging his father, ginga James Hewitt, while married to "Prince" Charles). "He has the absolute right to privacy in his private time” (except when he is taking the taxpayer's money to do it).

Yes, Rosie, and you have the absolute right to get a bit of free publicity out of it yourself. (Or did you get a fee?)

Blo Job

From Henry Blofeld, a cricket commentator, during the recent test series between the ever-lovable South Africans and England:

"If England do hand over 'the number one in the world rankings' title after this Test, I do think they will be handing it to the best side in the world."

Err ... that's what number one means, isn't it, Hen?

 

 

 

Fat Of The Land

Is Gu Kailai the first person to put on weight in a Chinese prison, or does she have a body double in more ways than one (geddit)?

Gu's death sentence may be commuted to life in prison which could then be commuted to 7 to 9 years, according to some reports. It is not reported whether she might then revert to receiving immunity from the law and a personal share of state assets, or merely national honours for killing a foreigner. Her prison time is likely to be spent in Qincheng, outside Peking, where standard cells are about 20 square metres, each with a toilet and a bed. Walls of cells for major criminals were padded with rubber to prevent them from harming themselves, it is said.

20 square metres is more than most Hong Kongers have per person, but without the rubber walls.

Car Wash

Manila - the Venice of the East.     Hang on a minute .....