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I just read the article on the new
Piracy-Proof
format for music disks. Had a
little laugh about it considering
if you can hear it via speakers you can still
record it through the aux jack on
a computer as an mp3 or what ever format that
floats your boat.
Dan
When the world is as sick as it is today, humour is the only thing left.
Tom MacFarlane
I've been reading the responses
to your Frankie Truman report on the World Cup.
What is wrong with people?
I'm hoping that you made up those replies, or the
people who sent them in were joking,
otherwise people that stupid are
walking around the world as we speak.
Keep up the good work. Yours is one of the few that regularly have me laughing.
James
I can't help noticing it's been ages
since any new stories were added. It used to be
updated far more regularly. I realise
that there is probably a very good reason for
this, but would like to encourage
you to update it asap. I check about every other
day and I'm always disappointed
when there's nothing new. Cheers for entertaining
me so far.
Bob
Apologies for
the lack of regular updates. I'll try to add new stories
more regularly.
Thanks for reading.
Just wanted to say the David
Blaine's Box article is class.....got lots of funny looks
at work for giggling at that one!
Keep up the good work !!!
H Unwin
Just been re-reading your stories
for the god knows how many time. As ever,
top banana! The piece about concorde
- laugh? I could have cried! Noticed the
line "crashing into a skyscraper
type incident", and the publication date, July
2001 and thought, ouch - can he
get away with that? Has he thought about
retracting the piece? A bit close
to the mark? But then I noticed the story
"WORLD
STUNNED BY U.S. TERROR OUTRAGE" and the bit about
Glasgow, and it's obvious that the
scorn of a nation will not hold you back -
good work fella
Ed
Hey
Frankie. How about a run down on the other teams involved? My
mates
reckon North Korea and China are
a good bet for the final. Saddam must be
kicking himself for being drawn
in the same group as USA and the Brits - after
all that hard work qualifying he's
up against two teams who haven't been beaten
in ages.
Rick
It's so good to see that there's
still soneone with a sense of humour and irony
out there...where do you get your
inspiration? I was actually laughing out loud
all on my own in front of my computer!
Fantastic stuff...haven't seen anything
quite so funny for a while. Friend
sent me the URL and I have obviously sent it
on to many more. Ciao.
Audrey
If you ever come to Orygun, I want to drink with you. Yes that is a compliment.
E. Wright
Frankie's
back!!! As well informed as ever, indeed better informed than most
of
his counterparts in the US media.
Thank you for disinterring him - he's a true
comic gem.
Bri
The Frankie Truman articles I just
read are excellent, specially his special
report
from Saudia Arabia. Please continue with this character and his
interpretations of the US-Iraq issue.
It's very difficult for me to understand why
(many) people believe he is an actual
person when he talks about 'Soccer
Football'.
As I said, please continue with Mr Truman. A bit of humour is needed in
these uncertain times.
OGG
Apart from having posted my appreciation
in alt.fan.james-bond
already, I'd
like to tell you directly that yours
is really the funniest site I've seen in a long
time. I really have to stop reading
now or my office staff is going to call a
doctor. Keep up the good work!
Till Neumann (Hamburg, Germany)
Ho ho!! Funnier then the hammers season!!
Dave
Outstanding! Saw the link on Yahoo
news about the "new"
Black Disc
preventing copying music. Then I
read about the 50,000
weapons inspectors.
Good ____ing stuff! Thanks for the
laughs.
Bob
Must say the site is fantastic!!
Only wish there were more stories, but puts a
smile on my face reading the old
ones. Keep it up!
Andrew Wallington
Hey, thought it was great. But is it real? (the I-Gun). Heard bout you from mIRC
Rob
Ahh, the joys of the error
message - nicely done mate. But iError, surely, rather
than i-error. Just for the full
apple edge!
Helen H
Greetings! I enjoyed your site and
reading the tongue-in-cheek reports. I was
curious if there were a manner in
which you could indicate stories with an
accompanying photo or graphic image,
perhaps with an icon, star, or letter, or
something of that nature. Thanks
for the laughs!
Bruce Krymow
I've just discovered your site, and
it's one of the funniest things on the web!
I've just made a total fool of myself
laughing out loud in the office at Frankie
Truman's soccer football report,
and also at the email responses.
Keep up the
good work? The Web needs you!
Paul
Brilliant stuff, mate! Keep it up.
It does amaze me that so many of the people
that commented on the Frankie
Truman story assumed that your site is
American. Hardly possible, is it,
now? ;-)
Lisa
I was worried about your claim re:
the Piper/Evans reproduction
until I came to
the claim that Danny Baker was unavailable
for comment. Then I knew it wasn't
true.
Henry Percy
Absolutely bloody hilarious!!! Keep up the good work!
charlie.
Where did you find the information
for that article?
I couldn't stop laughing and
I really do want to find a way to
contact these clever people (haha). Really,
don't they have a brain? And teenage
hackers? Please, if you can give me any
information about where I can contact
them do it, we'll have a good laugh,
promise! Cya :)
Elektr0n
Congratulations - a very funny
site! Reminds me a little of the style of Private
Eye which I used to read when it
was funny in the 80s and early 90s. First heard
of this site yesterday when
someone emailed me the link to the World
Cup
article.
Keep up the good work!
Niall Macpherson
Love the site, funniest stuff I've read in ages, keep up the good work etc etc etc
Matt Smith
Very good! superior to herdofsheep and bbc. keep going mun!
D. Fair
One of our editors found this wonderful
tidbit on your site. Thanks, and keep
up the funny stuff,
Paul D. Lehrman, Web Editor, Mix
magazine
Wow. I loved the article you had
on the Music
Industry and vinyl!
It was great!
I would like to know if I could re-publish
it on Selekta.com. We are a free
non-commercial resource for the
dance music industry. Thanks!
Dave Meeker, Director - Selekta.com
Very funny bit
about vinyl records...as the resident LP guru at Stereophile it was
only a matter of time before it
showed up in my email...of course LPs sound
better than CDs, and MP3 sound truly
sucks. I feel sorry for a generation that
thinks MP3s played back on plastic
computer speakers is "music." But oh, well,
vinyl has made a big comeback and
plenty of kids are listening. Thanks for the
entertainment.
Michael Fremer, Senior contributing
editor, Stereophile
Just found your site. Brilliant. Very full of Brill, actually. Be reading you.
Russ Stemler
I enjoyed the site. Good stories, unique story archive setup with url's.
As per your request towards satisfying
your curiosity as to how I found your
site I've enclosed the link so you
can check it out yourself.
http://www.richardgiles.net/blog/
I wrote because I noticed your blaring
announcement that your site is now
available in
Swedish and was wondering when the Mandarin and Yiddish
versions will be available online.
Michael S.
Your site is splendid. None
else is nearly as funny. Many thanks for a lot of
laughs.
Dan Schaffer
Darn good site.
I was particularly touched by the
Liz
Hurely paternity thing, and the article on
George
Bush getting nervous about Tony Blair's visits, and the article about
scientists inventing a new
way to look like a twat, and.... I could go on, but you
get the idea. Keep up the good work.
Scott.
PS. For your info, I came across
the site after typing "Billie Piper Chris Evans"
into Google, which threw up the
article about fears over
their plans to have
kids. I was hooked from that moment.
re: British troops go to Afghanistan
Brilliant site, this story was so funny but also scarily true. Cheers,
Roland
p.s. Got here from Gagpipe.com
re: mental health
What? Are you sure you double-checked
your diagnosis? Sounds more like an
"Affective-Disorder" rather than
simply "Paranoid Schizophrenia". Did you use
the ICD or the BMV? It'd be
interesting to find out where you get your mental
health references from!
S Canning, research and information
worker
I found your web site by chance,
from www.stallman.org. Not much to say --
just congratulations, and thank
you for putting together something like that
(wow!). My favorite stories include
Invention
Of Wheel Followed By
Marketing
Campaign and Church
of England And Buddhism Announce 'Exciting'
Merger.
I would like to see this style of
writing expanded and aided by a national contest,
something like the equivalent of
the Pulitzer prize. News media contains too
much crap anyway. And a case could
be made that articles like yours may have
a higher social utility (whatever
that is) than the ordinary, true stuff. At the very
least, they could change some perspectives.
Enough.
Bogdan Romocea
Nice site, guys!
Tom Salinsky
Excellent stuff. I like the
clueless
bods. "It's ADSL you twat." Anyway, later.
Keep up the good work.
James Begent
Thanks for the updates. Can
you tell us if you are introducing financial pages
in the New Year ? I'm sure
they'll be just as useful as my ex-broker; and my
ex-wife certainly thinks so .. Merry
Xmas.
Nixon McVicar
Dear Michael Jackson webmaster,
After I did did visit your Michael
Jackson website at
http://www.urbanreflex.com/jackson.html
I wanna ask you if you could place a
link or box to our Michael Jackson
e-card service.
No.
Hi!
I loved the pictures and words about
the wheel and its
importance in the
history of transportation.
Julie Taboh, Washington, DC
Thank god you're back on the case. I hope it was a nice holiday.
Without the lance of your sarcasm
I've been turning into a puss filled boil of
hate.
Ben
www.autonomic.net
As an Israeli and a keen advocate of peace, I feel duty-bound to defend the actions of my state, which you lampooned in your recent article.
Let it first be noted that Israel is the home of the Jews; the Promised Land, Zion and so on. We have gone to great pains to live peacefully with the Palestinians, but despite our best efforts, the Arabs refuse to fuck off.
It is our hope that a lasting memorial to the atrocities suffered during the Holocaust will demonstrate to our neighbours, and to detractors such as yourself, that a fight with the Jews is a fight that can be neither won nor lost, but only endured. We will endure.
I fear, however, that your fate will not be so noble. Satire, my friend, is like throwing pebbles at a great temple; the empty action of a petulant soul cast adrift in a Godless world, directionless and impotent. You should instead wield your pen like a sword -- if you express your anger with honesty and back it with your heart's untempered passion, no man can touch you. Remember, there are no extraordinary people in this world; only ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
I dedicate this letter to the unending memory of all those who have suffered.
Saul Goldberg
International freelance impressario
While I am as alarmed as anyone else
at the potential Chris Evans-Billie Piper
mating,
I must admit that I am also an American and haven't a clue in Hell as to
who these two people are or why
their offspring would obviously be a Demon
From Downstairs. On the other
hand, the female in this equation looks dim
enough that simply attempting to
teach her Scrabble would probably banish all
thoughts of sex from her head for
at least six months, as the head looks to small
to carry more than one idea at a
time . . .
Love The Site, By The Way
Flabigguy
I wrote you a way back commenting
how much I liked the site. I've enjoyed all
of the updates since, and I'm glad
to see the site has maintained it's clean
structure. I loved the concorde
story - it literally had me rolling with laughter!
Have you ever thought about using
a bulletin board on the site? I think it would
work quite well, issues like the
'iGun' would be easier to discuss for sure. Also,
the site could do with more frequent
updates.
Cheers again,
JJ
PS the last suggestion was a joke
- I'd far rather have sporadic great humour than
regular mediocre stuff (see 'the
onion' for an example of the latter).
I liked your site a lot. The author
of http://www.2525.com quoted from your
site to explain me something about
the anti-globalism protesters.
Keep up the
good work.
ReindeR
PS. A tad snobbish to show off with
ClarisWorks 4 while SimpleText can do
the job.
I was having a miserable day thorn
in finger etc you know the sort of thing had
arranged to have miserable day but
found your site which is truly funny
"I laughed out loud" said a sad
git in Wallington.You should be paid for this .
Found it through cybereditions/daily
or whatever they are now. I shall be
recommending it hoping for some
vicarious credit.
Paul Warren
Greetings, I found your site from
a reference in <news:comp.sys.mac.flight-sim>
about "all
your plane belong to us". Hilarious piece. I also liked the piece about
the newly
announced Chinese surveillance plane. Good satire...!
Daniel O'Donnell
Interesting article on the iGun.
We're not quite ready with the internet access
module yet.
Jonathan Mossberg,
President, iGun Technology Corp.
www.iguntech.com
I'm just writing to say I love your
site - I think the stories are very sharp,
especially the foot
and mouth story. Thanks for making such a brilliant site
Joe Zuntz
Absolutely brilliant mate! Well impressed, just wish I'd come across it earlier!
Sam Routledge
good work person of non-obvious gender. Like it, esp the iGun piece keep it up
jules
Great site, excellent stories.
I check you out and often circulate the stories on
my unofficial mail group.
The 2nd egg thrower
story was perfect as a Friday
afternoon loosener ...
Really just you ? Shurely Shome Acheivement
Nixon McVicar
re: iGun
fabulous!
wonderful!
mac made!
(what else can i say?)
all the best,
yuri, rio/ brasil
re: iGun
That's not even funny.
Mike Kaufmann Santa
Cruz, CA
re: iGun
i thought this was brilliant! you
got the tone of it spot on - right on the
borderline of credibility! i sent
it around to loads of friends...well done!
ds
Loved your iGun
spoof. Suggest you alter the announcement to spec a
10-round magazine, as mfg of new
over-10-round mags has been restricted to
police-only since late 1994.
FWIW. :-)
Bill Meyers
I just got directed to an article
on your site by ARK, and thought I'd drop you a
line to say that I like it - a lot.
The design is nice and clean too, a rarity on the
web. I like you sense of humour,
too. That was the first 'all
your base' parody
in a long while that actually made
me laugh!
JJ
You're a clever little bugger, aren't
you? Keep up the good work - we're all
laughing our tits off here at the
office.
Cheers
PL, The Tribune.
hey there mystery person,
i think your site is fantastic. i
am presently wiping the tears from my eyes.
should you ever require an australian
correspondent, i am your man.
david prater
Funny and clever.
A bit worrying, though. I'm a teacher
and I showed your anticapitalism
'story' to
students 16-18 and they just didn't
realise it was a spoof. They had absolutely
no idea. Perhaps I should have followed
it up with the sheep story. Very
wittily done. More?
s walsh
Very good work! I hope you get lots of visitors. Best wishes.
dajavi
Just read your post on the mayday2001 list and laughed out loud...
Sean McGinty
I like your stories. They're funny.
Thanks,
Oliver Cox
it's cows not sheep that are being slaughtered at the moment
funny, though...
Rod Stanley
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