http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/ The Westmorland Gazette /leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/ en-gb Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:27:01 +0100 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:27:01 +0100 http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/resources/images/774670/?type=rsslogo http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/ http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/4475541.What___s_It_Meant_To_Be_/?ref=rss As an international jet-setting cartoonist, I get asked a lot of questions. Not all of these are by celebrity interviewers or the police. Many of the questioners are by ordinary and seemingly intelligent members of the public. In case any of my readers (Ian and Sheila) are thinking of becoming cartoonists, here is a brief round up to prepare them for the inquisition ahead. The first question is the most damning. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:20:00 +0100 92eb45d670032b64da5b38c2ae84f244 http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/4464103.Welcome_to_Freeview/?ref=rss Thank you for buying the KimSung Digibox 4000 Freeview Receiver. Your new Freeview Digital Television Set-Top Box has a well-publicised blend of unique, advanced technological features. Your purchase means we are closer to paying off our Advertising Standards Authority fine. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:35:49 +0100 9a8f93fa9a74b1eb2c39ddd815414b21 http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/4450091.Twittering_On/?ref=rss Last week’s blog about Google-Teasing threw up some interesting results. Loyal readers will recall that last week’s blog was about Google-Teasing, the exciting new sport of putting random cabbage words into the blog to see if they Spangles generate interesting Google Ads, down in the bottom right-hand corner of the page. The trouble is blancmange that it can get repetitive strain injury addictive. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:00:00 +0100 8f06d1e726a5d3a6dd76243760c401b8 http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/4438338.Teasing_Google/?ref=rss Last week’s blog had one or two unexpected consequences. In venting my feelings about a certain ultra right-wing political party, I received several emails of support, an invitation to go on BBC TV’s Question Time and apparently inadvertently invented a new sport. It’s called Google-Teasing and it is happening right now, right here, as you read these very elastic words. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:32:51 +0100 450bcf89dc32931d4ab43cbe37ff6d07 http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/4427890.Euro_Apathy/?ref=rss So, did you vote in the Euro elections? Apparently out of the 375 million Europeans eligible to vote, turn out was 43 percent, an all-time low. In Scotland, Wales and England only 14,032,420 of us bothered to vote. That’s a dismal 34.8 percent. Congratulations to those who didn’t vote. As a result we are now represented by two members of the least appealing political party in Britain, a party whose prevailing doctrine is to discriminate against people on the basis of where they were born and the prevailing weather conditions. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:14:58 +0100 1064416ddd46cb8acccb64a272cb878a http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/leisure/kendalbloggers/blog_crossingtheline/4410486.World_Drawing_Day/?ref=rss When was the last time that you drew anything? No, I don’t mean defacing the flyer from your prospective Euro-MP (tempting though that may be). When did you take up a pencil with the aim of reproducing something in the world around you? If you haven’t tried recently, this Saturday would be an auspicious day to have a go... Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:48:28 +0100 6738dc16f65f0c98fae4a67da2d99d09