Tedious smart-arse and unfunny one-liner gags are the very lifeblood of the Afterword. Without them we are nothing.

Who?

What, you mean like this……?

Cripes! Over 100 posts (hamper for Mr Twang) on the navel gazing thread, but only 16 of us signing up for some peace and love. Which kind of begs this question, courtesy of Nick Lowe.

EDIT – which I now realise […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAqAmLSIGU8

I thought you had declared yourself as Emperor Moon Weasel. I am confuse.

Some time ago I tried explaining the AW premise to Mrs Bungliemutt, using one of Mr Saucecraft’s more chucklesome threads and its responses as an illustrative example. After rolling her eyes in either disbelief or […]

Tony, I think you must be our ‘yoof’ representative.

How dare you! I’ve never been to Islington.

With you there Gatz. The stuff is the devil’s work. My aversion probably comes from being force fed lukewarm gently curdling milk as a primary school child. That nice Mrs Thatcher put a stop to all that of c […]

Gender – male
Age – 55-60
Occupation – underachieving
Country of residence – England
Country of birth – England

The nights are drawing in. It’s the flouncing season.

Is this our first post-HP flounce flounce? It’s been a double flounce weekend!

I’ve struggled to find pillows that provide the right level of head and neck support. My last error involved purchasing some sort of Mongolian eagle feather / Tasmanian kookaburra down pillows from John Lewis […]

I disagree with HP’s comment upthread about the AW having ‘all the visual appeal of a tax return’. I think it looks very professionally designed, and is actually quite inviting. Its functionality is also as a […]

It’s over there, between the land and the sky…..

I’m a big fan of water, me. Like Foxy I’m partial to a drop of San Pellegrino, but you’d have to go a long way to beat the taste of sparkling Highland Spring. My question to the scientific minds of the After […]

From the story of the little girl in the Gaza hospital to feeding corgis with the Queen, this was indeed a humbling listening experience. David Nott is clearly a remarkable man, and Kirsty Young was first rate at […]

I think it’s just blokes with beards who push in front of you at gigs while recording the whole experience on their mobile phones. In which case, fair enough.

There are certainly many days in my job when it seems like an attractive alternative.

“Which one’s the birthday boy? She said I ain’t got all night”

Drive-By Truckers – Birthday Boy”. Neatly captures the whole situation in an economy of words.