The theme got pretty popular around the turn of the century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_C…

See the Jeffrey Archer prostitution case. Totally true allegations in the Daily Star that a British politician was visiting a prostitute ended up lwinning him £500,000 in damages.

Every time Joe Manganiello is mentioned, my mind goes to that guy who does the voice of Fat Tony. Where's his Sofia Vergara??

I'm not a Harry Potter obsessive by any stretch, but I must say that Rita Skeeter is one of Rowling's most brilliant creations. If you're from the UK and immersed in our tabloid media culture, her voice is a spot-on skewering of infamous Daily Mail hacks like Jan Moir, with echoes of Private Eye's own great spoof…

No, thanks. Think I'll stick with vamping the old-fashioned way.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure this out. It wasn't til someone brought up Iggy's Australianness that I thought "That's cool. You don't really see a lot about Black Austra—- wait. Fuuuuck."

I was thinking of this: http://groupthink.jezebel.com/things-that-ne…

Wait, wait... I thought we were supposed to hate it now when people make light of drug abuse by using 'crack' casually to describe their cupcakes/pies/pumpkin spice lattes?

They've swapped glasses and now I don't know which one I hate!

Also illegal in the UK, I believe. Anywhere that serves alcohol must provide you with free tap water if you ask for it.

We're probably about three weeks away from Lupita N'yongo backlash, so Imma get this fawning in quick: her main Instagram picture reminds me of Audrey Hepburn.

Wow, when I look at that picture of Nia I can totally see the Greek in Tina Fey.

So essentially: "We should be allowed to carry guns because we're allowed to carry guns."

It's insane to me that they are using modern crime-solving technology and 'intelligence' to solve a 'crime' which is straight out of the dark ages.

And yet his parents named him Ian and get off scot free?

The lyrics mention ice cream, agreed. But I can only think of one ice cream truck song that mentions ice cream (O Sole Mio aka Just One Cornetto), so that doesn't seem to be part of the selection criteria. I dunno, I'm not saying there's definitely no connection, it just seems unconvincing to me. In the days before…

No way! I'm in Balham!

In the UK, most seem to play a tune which causes endless arguments in my family as to whether it's O Sole Mio or It's Now Or Never.

For his creation, Browne simply used the well-known melody of the early 19th-century song "Turkey in the Straw," which dates back to the even older and traditional British song "The (Old) Rose Tree."

Fo' real, I was like rat up a drainpipe.