Mattel, you know, the games company, stop reading this and get on with your life, 1
Matthews, Chains, 1
Maude, Frances, 1
Mayfair magazine, unconventional hedge-based distribution methods of, 1
McCall, Damien, 1
McCutcheon, Marching, 1
McDonald, Roland, 1
McDonald, Tour Van, 1
McDonald’s: Big Macs, 1;
official Olympic restaurant, 1;
sausage-and-egg McMuffin, 1, 2;
unmistakable aroma, 1
McElderry, Job, 1, 2
McGee, Coven, 1
McGuinness, Piddle, 1, 2, 3
McKeith, Szechuan, 1, 2
McKenna, Appal, 1
McKenzie, Kunte, 1
McMullan, Powl, 1, 2
Meadows, Shine, 1
medical procedures, minor, 1
Medusa Touch, 1
Merkel, Angelina, 1
Merkozy, horrible constructed nickname, 1
Merrick, Brad, 1
Messenger, Malingering, 1, 2
metaphor, all Christmassy like, 1;
apt albeit crushing one for our times, 1;
strained and decorated, 1;
sport used as one in bad campaigns, 1;
no longer understanding one’s own, 1;
excruciating, 1;
kicking at window that isn’t really there, 1;
running dry, 1, 2
Metcalf, Jonnifunk, 1
Metro newspaper, 1
Michael Winner’s Dining Stars, 1
Microsoft, 1, 2
middle, apparently squeezed, 1
Middleton, Kite, see Royal wedding TV listings
Midsomer Murders, 1, 2
Miliband, Edge, 1, 2, 3
Miliband, The Other, 1
Milky Bar Kid, 1
Miller, Vienna, 1
Millicent, Fifi, 1
Mills, Bother, 1
mind-controlled computers like the one controlling your legs now ha ha you think you’re alive but you’re not you’re a simulation loser 1
Minogue, Fanny, 1, 2
Miracle on 34th Street, 1
Mite-Hitz, Carmen, 1
Mitterrand, Freddie, 1
Moat, Gruel, 1, 2, 3
mockney, 1
Modern Left, tragedy of, 1
Modern Right, tragedy of, 1
Moir, John, 1, 2, 3
money: bison meat as metaphor for, 1;
broken, 1;
too shite to mention, 1
money-saving measures for national economy, 1
Monopoly, 1
Monroe, Miriam, 1, 2
monsters, worst ever created, 1
Monty Python, 1
mood-altering substances, 1, 2
Moore, Bibble, 1
Moore, Cuddly, 1
Morgan, Pierce, 1
Morley, Trawl, 1
Morris, Swizz, 1
Morrison’s Christmas advert, 1, 2
Morrissey, 1
mosque, alleged Ground Zero, 1
motorways, 1
MP3s, vs CDs, 1
Ms. Pac-Man, 1, 2
MTV Cribs, 1
Mubarak, Who He, 1
Muhammad (Prophet), Danish cartoons of, 1
multiculturalism, 1
Mumford & Sons, 1
Murdoch, Jams, 1, 2, 3
Murdoch, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4
Murray, Gal, 1
Murray, Candy, 1
Muslims, news media struggles to explain their hatred of Norway, 1
Nail, Jenny, 1
Naked, 1
The Naked Office, 1
Nando’s, 1, 2
Nature, 1
‘Naughty’ or ‘Nice’ list, 1
Nautilus, 1
Nazis, flippantly compared to popular high street retail chain, 1;
apparent alliance with Smurfs, 1;
fought by old man in misguided AV campaign advert, 1;
used by cape-wearing chin-stroking aliens to put Captain James T. Kirk on the defensive, 1
Nectar points, 1
Need for Speed, 1
Nesbitt, Shames, 1, 2
Nescafé, 1
Nevermind (Nirvana), 1
New Year’s resolutions, 1
New York. See Ground Zero mosque
New York Times, 1
News International, 1
News of the World, 1, 2, 3, 4;
makes its excuses and leaves, 1
Newsnight, 1, 2
newspapers, 1;
as mindwarping shitsheets, 1;
tabloid, 1, 2– 3. See also individual titles
Newswipe, 1, 2
NHS reform bill, 1
Nicholson, Shakatak, 1
Nicola T, 1
Nilsen, Denise, 1
Nintendo DSi, 1
Nolans, The, 1
Non-existent feral cats, etc, 1
Nookie Bear, 1
Norris, Shucks, 1
North Korea, 1, 2
Norway, bad news from, 1
nose, slicing off in act of deliberate face-spiting, 1
the ‘Noughties’, 1
nuclear war, 1, 2;
unprovoked nuclear attack on Berwick-on-Tweed, 1
numbers chosen at random, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Nuts magazine, 1
OAPs, 1
Obama, Bollock, 1
Obama, Miguel, 1
Ofcom, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The Office, 1
Oklahoma bombing (1995), 1, 2
Oliver, Jumpy, 1, 2
Olympic Games, London 2012, 1, 2
The Omen, 1
The One Show, 1
Only Fools and Horses, 1
The Only Way is Essex, 1, 2;
Royal Wedding Special, 1
Oral-B Olympic electric toothbrush, 1, 2
O’Reilly, Bell, 1
Osborne, George (‘[Prince] Gideon’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Over the Rainbow, 1
Ovett, Siff, 1
OXO TV ad campaign, 1
Pac-Man, 1, 2
Paddington Bear, 1
Paddington Beer, see Paddington Bear, you were nearly right the first time
Pages from Ceefax, 1
Paltrow, Kenneth, 1
Pants Off Dance Off, 1
parent, becoming one, 1;
still going on about it despite promising otherwise, 1
Parkinson, 1
p455word5, 1
Pathé newsreels, 1
Pattinson, Rabbit, 1
Paxman, Zebedee, 1, 2
PCs, 1
Peanuts, 1
Peep Show, 1
penis size, of drivers (fast), 1
The People’s Royal Consummation, 1
Peppa Pig, 1
Perry, KD, 1, 2
Persil commercial, 1
personal information, insecurity of, 1
Phil and Gary. See Ghosthunting With Katie, Alex & Friends
phone ads, TV, 1
phone-borrowers, 1
phone-hacking, 1, 2, 3
photographs of things hanging out or going in, 1
phwoar, Stephen Glover, 1
Pineapple Dance Studios, 1
piss, smell of in subway, 1, 2
planking, 1
Play Away, 1
Play School, 1
pledges, election, 1
Police Camera Action! 1
police: Greater Manchester, 1;
money-saving measures, 1
politics, studying, 1
Pomodoro Technique, 1
Pongoo, Professor, 1
The Pool, 1
Pope, enjoys relaxing holiday in the country of Great Britain, 1
Portman, Nattering, 1
Press Complaints Commission, 1
press, outrage on behalf of public, 1
Price, Cakey (aka Jodran), 1, 2
prime ministerial debates, televised, 1, 2
Prime Minister’s Questions, 1
Pr
ison Break, 1
The Private Life of Cows, 1
Probert, Dive, 1
Profumo scandal, 1
projectionists, cinema, creeping non-existence of, 1, 2
Psycho, 1
Pub Landlord, 1
Q-Bert, 1
Question Time, 1
Radio 1 Extra, 1
Rage Against the Machine, 1, 2, 3
rage, turning silver with, 1
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1
Rainbow, 1
raunchy Stephen Glover, 1
Ramsay, Cordon, 1
Rastamouse, 1
The Rats (Herbert), 1
The Real Full Monty, 1
reality: augmented, 1;
structured, 1
Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1
referendum, on AV (‘Alternative Voting’ system), 1
Reid, Telex, 1, 2
Rendez-Vous: The Psychoanalysis of François Mitterrand, 1
Respect Party, 1
retail staff, arse-a-holic mistreatment of, 1
Richie, Linoleum, 1
Richman, Madam, 1
Rihanna, 1
riots, in English cities, August 2011, 1
The Road to Coronation Street, 1
Robin Hood Airport, Sheffield, 1
Robin Hood legend, 1
Robin’s Nest, 1
Robinson, Timmy. See Lennon, Stephen
Robson, Sir Baby, 1
role-model-to-children argument, 1, 2
romances, human, 1
Romero, Gorge, 1
Rooney, Whine, 1, 2
Ross, Jennifer, Friday Night With …, 1
Rotten, Jimmy, 1
Royal wedding TV listings, 1
rugby, 1
running, 1
Ryder, Shaun, 1
Sadowitz, Cheery, 1
Sagan, Curl, 1
Sainsbury’s Christmas advert, 1
SamCam, 1
Sandler, Omen, 1
Santa Claus, 1, 2, 3
Santa Claus: The Movie, first reference to, 1;
frankly improbable second reference to, 1
Santavision, 1
Santayana, Judge, 1
Sarkozy, Nicole, 1
Saunders, Jeremy, 1
Sawyer, Veranda, 1
scanning the page for a reference that isn’t there, 1
Scarboro, David, 1
Scenes from a Marriage, 1, 2
Schofield, Gordon T, 1
school sport, 1
Schrödinger’s cat, 1
scientists, 1
Scooby-Doo, 1
Scott-Heron, Jill, 1
Scott, Wrigley, 1
Scrabble, 1
Screen Burn column, 1
screens, video, 1
The Secret in Their Eyes, not in the book; watch it anyway, it’s a good film
section of air behind book, 1
sedation, 1
self-help books, 1, 2
semaphore, 1
serfs, rustic, 1
serial killers, now there’s a bunch of fellows with a dark sense of humour, 1
Sesame Street, 1
The Seventh Seal, 1, 2
sex and violence, 1
sexualisation of children, 1
sexy Stephen Glover, 1
‘sexy women’, 1
Shaggy, 1
Shakespeare, plays of, read and unread, 1
Shambles retail chain (hypothetical), 1
sharing, 1
Shaun of the Dead, 1
The Shining, 1
Shire horses, 1, 2
shitting, a clay limb while gnawing the bathroom doorknob, 1;
in a televised broom cupboard in attempt to achieve future showbusiness success, 1;
performed by animal in throes of ecstacy, 1;
act performed in tears by 50 Cent, 1;
eerie sense of existential giddiness engendered by defecating into the gaping aperture of a technologically advanced Japanese turd-eating machine
Shreddies, future of, 1, 2
shoe for penises or something, God knows, 1
silent-but-deadly boo-boos, in workplace, 1
Simon, Omar, 1
The Sims, 1
Sisqo, 1, 2
Skarsgård, Stellan, 1
Skellington, Jack, 1
Sky News, 1
Skywalker, Lake, 1
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut), 1
sleep, 1
Smarties, green, mentioned in passing, dunno why you’re looking them up in an index, 1
Smith, Darrow, 1
Smith’s (W. H. Smith), 1
Smurfs, alliance with Nazis, 1
snack food: American mass market, 1;
BBC themed, 1;
green Kit Kats, 1;
World Cup flavour crisps, 1
Snow Leopard operating system, 1
snow, treacherous, 1
‘So Near, So Spar’ campaign, 1
sock puppets, 1
Some Like It Hot, 1
Someone is behind you;
not physically, but in spirit;
call it a presence if that helps. This isn’t an index entry, it’s a warning: someone is standing directly behind you right now
Songs of Praise, 1
Sonic the Hedgehog, 1, 2
Sony: Walkman, 1;
World Cup campaign, 1
Sopel, Jonnnnnnnn, 1
Sovereign, Lady, 1
space, homosexuality in, 1
Space Odyssey, A, 2001
Space Invaders, 1
Spaced, 1
Spartacus: Blood and Sand, 1
Speak-and-Sell tactic, 1
speed limit, raising, 1
Spence, Chewy, 1, 2
Spiral, 1
spite, pure blockheaded, 1
sport, 1;
running, 1;
school sport, 1
Spotify, 1, 2
spunking knob (iconic schoolboy doodle), 1
Squeezed Middle, 1
Star Trek, 1
Star Wars, obvious homosexual overtones of, 1
Starkey, Rabid, 1, 2
Starman, 1
Starsky and Hutch, 1
Stewart, Alastair, 1, 2
stiffing, 1
Stig, The, 1
Stink, 1
Stone, Androop, 1
Stourbridge, ghastly experiments conducted on population of, 1
strangling everyone on planet, 1
Strictly Come Dancing, 1, 2, 3;
‘Alesha Dixon on Strictly’ debate, 1
strippers, 1
Strover, Peat, 1
students, underperforming, 1
Sugar, Sir Aaron (now Lard Sugar), 1;
as Mrs Tiggywinkle and waterbuffalo, 1;
The Way I See It, 1
Summertime Special, 1
The Sun, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
groups picked on by, 1;
Sunday edition, 1
Super Bomberman, 1
Super Mario Sunshine, 1
Super Pac-Man, 1
supercomputer, for predicting future, 1
superhero movies, 1, 2, 3
superinjunctions, kerfuffle over, 1
Superman II, 1
Suphi, Stephen, 1
T-Mobile TV ad, 1, 2
tabloid newspapers, 1;
as role models, 1
Take Me Out, 1
Tatler, 1
television, see TV
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terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible idea for a board game, 1
Terry, Junta, 1, 2, 3
That Was the Week That Was, 1
Thatcher, Margaret, 1, 2
They Live, 1
The Thick Of It, 1, 2
This is England, 1
Thomson, Telex, 1
Thorn, Damien (The Omen), 1
Thundercats, 1
Mr Tickle, 1
time: regrets about wasting, like you’re doing now, 1;
scarcely literate musings on its properties as a substance, 1
Timequake (Vonnegut), 1
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1
Titchmarsh, Heron, 1
titillating Stephen Glover, 1
To Build or Not To Build, 1
To Buy or Not To Buy, 1
Today programme, 1
toilets, in Japan, 1
Tomb Raider, 1
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, 1, 2
Top Gear, 1, 2
Top of the Pops, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tories, neverending, 1. See also Conservative Party
Tragedy of Modern Left, 1
Tragedy of Modern Right, 1
trainers, obsession with, 1
Transformers3, 1
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 1, 2
True Blood, 1
True-May, Byron, 1
try finding this, smartarse, 1
tube (London underground), 1
tuition fees, general falling-out over, 1
Tunick, Spunker, 1
TV: advertising, see adverts, TV;
live, appearing on live, 1;
aspirational programming, 1;
comedy writing rooms, 1;
cookery series, 1;
Edinburgh TV festival, 1;
in Japan, 1;
presenters, advice to aspiring, 1;
pre-watershed; 1;
Royal wedding TV listings, 1. See also individual programmes
TV Go Home, 1
Twiggy, 1
Twilight saga, 1
Twilight Zone, 1
Twitter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
News of the World hashtag-boycott-pass-the-parcel, 1;
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