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The BBC led with the headline "A trail of giant footprints was unearthed in the UK- see how a dinosaur left them."
Now I am no dinosaurologist, but I reckon I know already.
If you're struggling to work it out, the picture is a big clue.
Though the BBC has it wrong. Although the dinosaurs are all skellingtons nowadays, they wouldn't have been at the time of making the footprints (another clue in the word footprints for those still wondering). It is confusing, but if you watch Jurassic Park you will see that around those bones there was all flesh and skin and stuff, a bit like today's animals.
How any of this counts as news is beyond me. Those footprints were made millions of years ago and the BBC is just getting round to reporting on them. I don't pay my licence fee... admittedly. But if I did I would expect fresher news than this. I think there's something going on in the Middle East. It's not my job to tell you what that is.
Matinee mode blueskyed this picture of Bob Hoskins, Princess Diana and Roger Rabbit, wondering what Hoskins was saying to Diana (Do you see him too? was the most popular and obvious reply - though for added comedy you could have Roger Rabbit saying that to subvert expectations. From thence the comedy arises. Can't believe I am giving these tips away for free).
What struck me is that even though this photo is from 1988 and everyone looks full of life, all three of the main characters in that photo are now dead.
You probably heard about Diana dying - that one got on the news a lot quicker than the dinosaur footsteps, Bob went in 2014 (shouldn't there have been more of a fuss about that?) and though I haven't heard directly about Roger, I do know that the
oldest ever rabbit was 18 years and change so I am afraid Roger likely went some time in the 20th Century. I don't know what age he was when he made the film, but was sexually active, so was at least 3 months old (the things I've had to google for this blog). I have heard rumours that Prince Phillip had him killed, but I am sure that's not true. Prince Phillip loved animals and was patron of the World Wildlife Fund and probably shot fewer than 100,000 animals in his life.
I loved Bob Hoskins ever since he appeared in
"On The Move" (there are some big names in that show) the adult literacy programme. I don't know what adult literacy is like nowadays, but I suspect more grownups are able to read than in the 1970s. For anyone telling that the glory days for the UK were the 50s to the 70s.
Donald Gee who plays Burt in the show is also excellent and didn't go on to huge Hollywood success, but they're a good double act. There's much better acting in this show than there needs to be.
You can't do comedy like that any more. Because it's shit.
Ha ha, you can't even spell. I can.
If you're worried about losing precious jokes like this one, you absolutely still can do comedy like this. Just check out Netflix comedy specials and the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
Weird what sticks in your mind though when so much falls away. And weird the little dance that my ageing brain takes me on from seeing a photo of the Roger Rabbit premiere.
I am sad we no longer have Bob or Diana or Donald with us any longer. Though delighted that Roger Rabbit has died. He was a bit much. Also I think enough time will have passed for me to make a move on Jessica.... who despite her surname was very much human. Albeit a human prepared to have sex with an animal. But we all make mistakes.
