ife’s for the living, I guess. Have a look at this advertisement filmed live in Liverpool Street Station. Lovely to see such delight on people’s faces! HT: Gavin McGrath

abotage. What would you do if you really wanted to sabotage any organisation? Well, here are the CIA’s recommendations from 1944.

Arguably, a selection of the worst prose written cannot but include the inimitable G Ragsdale McClintock, a delightful creation of Mark Twain. Twain writes of McClintock's work The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant: The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, [...]

Bad poetry is a delight to the soul, especially when it is so unashamedly bad that no one could contest its enormity. For example, listen to these words that no doubt brought a smile to the Rev Gilfillan of Dundee, and have been bringing smiles to countless people since…

‘Greet one another with a holy kiss.’ This is the advice of the New Testament time and again. Perhaps the following analyses of kisses (to which I was pointed by David Wayne) will help you fulfil this command. According to Cynthia Nielson, the following are useful categories of kiss: Aristotelian kiss. A kiss performed using [...]