Why have they changed the £20 notes? I don’t like the new ones, still at least they’ve still got the queen on them.

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What does Avril Lavigne see in that chump from Sum 41? Maybe she just really liked Fat Lip.

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Is Albert II was the first monkey in space what did Albert I do?

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In typical style of this blog I have decided to start a new section, like most of my other sections this will probably run for one or two posts and then fade into obscurity. The section is called “Pete’s Advert Watch” and the concept is I discuss product advertisements which have caught my attention recently.

My favourite advert currently is for Britain’s favourite dried dog food (I think it might be Bakers Complete). The storyline is brilliant, the voice over states that dogs would have to go along way to find a tastier dried dog food than this one. Some intrepid Dogs are then shown travelling into space, once in orbit of the earth they dock with a space station. What do they find on this space station? Only a collection of Space-faring dogs enjoying Britain’s Favourite dog food! How do they come up with these amazing ideas!

In the 1950s and 1960s the crazy Russians (USSR at the time) sent a number of dogs into space to determine if human space travel could be possible. The first animals intentionally sent into space were fruit flies, a Monkey called Albert II was the first mammal sent into space in 1949. Tragically Albert II died on return to earth due to a parachute failure.

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Workmen from Bristol have painted over the earliest know Banksy mural because they thought it was vandalism that needed clearing up. Although the Banksy tag would have originally been considered vandalism, Bristol Council ordered all Banksy “street art” to be preserved when the artist gained mainstream exposure. The piece of art painted over had been done on the side of a garage and is thought to have been worth around £100,000.

Pictured above is the mural before and after with a picture of a balaclava sporting Bansky in the corner. You can notice that some sharp witted satirist has written “Wot No Banksy?” on the black paint afterwards.

This “fat lane” picture is one of my personal favourite Banksy photo’s. Apparently there is a new form of vandalism on the rise that you can’t be prosecuted for, this involves cleaning dirty walls to leave pictures or messages on them. Surely this has been being done for years with hilarious slogans being written on White Vans. My favourite White Van slogan is “I wish my wife was as dirty as this van”.

My last wally of the week was Drink Drive Wally.

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Today Pete is pondering: Why does Mr Universe always come from earth?

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New section alert! Here’s what Pete is pondering today: Why do Duck’s love stale bread so much?

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There’s been a lot of discussions about Mullets over on phuser.com today, while I was researching who invented the term mullet I stumbled upon an excellent website called “James Hetfield Hair Watch” my favourite part of this site is the Hetfield Hair: Graphical Analysis Trends I urge you to check out this site for the graph alone (god I love stats)! Also good is A Pictorial History of James Hetfield’s Hair.

The word “Hetfield” appears as a spelling mistake in Microsoft Word, apparently Bill Gates thinks you’ve spelt “Hatfield” incorrectly! From my research it appears that the Beastie Boys invented the term mullet but I have yet to find concrete proof of this.

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Once again regular reader Kelvin “Dr Quansoon” Quansah has provided me with some excellent blog material. Pictured below are some actual sausages that were being sold in Ireland until someone noticed the mistake!

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Earlier in the week I wrote about St Patricks Day and the commercialisation of it by Guinness. This year they are going even further and releasing special edition Guinness Marmite to “celeberate”.

The spread is non-alcoholic and is made using a strain of yeast used to create Guinness. I’m not quite sure how I feel about his as I love a bit of Marmite but am not too keen on the Monochromatic Beverage. I’d imagine the special edition spread is quite tasty, the reason I don’t really like Guinness is I feel it has an almost food like flavour (as opposed to a refreshing larger taste).

If you want some 300,000 jars have gone on sale and it is being stocked by Tesco’s. If you can’t find any in the shops then there’s plenty going on eBay.

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