Retro Yakking

…not on your nelly.

As the number of deaths being attributed to swine flu slows, the media frenzy surrounding the disease which threatens to become a global pandemic is receding somewhat, but officials are quick to warn that pig flu may well be hazardous to your health.

For this reason, the Home Office advise people to read the informational leaflets currently being distributed. In essence, these are just recycled bird flu leaflets readied for the previous potential pandemic with the words ‘stay away from pigs’ scribbled on in orange marker. Do not underestimate their importance, however, for they are essential for survival (so the press will have us believe) in a possible, nay probable post-apocalyptic, swine flu ravaged world.

As with any global panic, people are looking to the past for clues on how and why this sort of thing could happen. Thanks to Judas at the Godlike Productions forums, it has been ascertained that Nostradamus, that great soothsayer of the 16th Century, did indeed predict these events.

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Well, the end of another month already, and time once again to thank everyone who is visiting this blog via EntreCard.

There are too many of you to list here, though protocol suggests that the round figure of ten be acknowledged.

And acknowledged you shall be, in this very list of links and numbers, just at the other side of the break. Mario compels you to click the hyperlink!

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Haven’t enough spam mail to waste your time with? Then you’re in luck, for the powers that be have sanctioned an official informational leaflet to drop through your letterbox very soon.

This ain’t no regular Al’s Fried Chicken or local yoga classes leaflet, however. This is serious stuff - a life or death situation worth spending the extra money on laminated paper and staples.

But what exactly is going to be in this flyer? Well, as expected, it’s along the lines of the kind of thing Retro Yakking warned you about yesterday: vigilance is required, and above all, do not kiss a Mexican person.

Here’s a quick taster of what will be hitting your doormat/floor/rhythm stick in the coming week.

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Right, so if you believe all you read in the Daily Mail, we’re all going to die of this swine flu thing that is apparently going round.

If we’re all going to be killed off like flies we have a right to know what on Earth this pig flu is. After all, all they ever say on the news is that it’s called swine flu and it’s killed more people since breakfast time.

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If you think the recent cost cutting in Formula 1 is bad, then you clearly haven’t seen the Ginetta G50 cup yet.

At the Brand’s Hatch featured race a few weeks ago, Nathan Freke was involved in a slight bump with leader Carl Breeze which resulted in the loss of his bonnet (pictured above thanks to the cameras of ITV Sport, who broadcast the race live, and my trusty digital recorder).

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