John Bull

COMPETITION TIME

The nice thing about Grant Shapps erasing Boris from that rocket photo is you can now put whatever you want there.

Reply to this with your own creation. I'll send a copy of The Brexit Tapes to whoever does the one that makes me laugh most, by midnight.

Jan 10, 2023 at 11:39amWeb
Show threadTheNewNo2Jan 10, 2023
@garius Time for some giant military cats perhaps.
Show threadJohn BullJan 10, 2023
@TheNewNo2 definitely the route the birdsite is going down with it!
Show threadDave AkermanJan 10, 2023
@garius
Show threadParsingphaseJan 10, 2023
@daveake @garius "Even in the future, nobody works"
Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jan 10, 2023
@garius
Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jan 10, 2023
@garius Can I enter two?
Show thread🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩Jan 11, 2023
@BonehouseWasps @garius This is brilliant!
Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jan 11, 2023
@Naich @garius Thanks! 🥰
Show threadСер Пітер ЛордJan 11, 2023
@BonehouseWasps @garius Why did you add extra muppets? (Plenty already in the original picture)
Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jan 11, 2023
@peter_lord @garius 😂
Show threadTired and AngryJan 11, 2023
@BonehouseWasps @garius Everyone else stand down. 🤣
It can’t get better than this surely? 😂
Show threadPeter Garwood www.bbbrclub.orgJan 11, 2023
@BonehouseWasps @garius His red box is missing....................
Show threadGiles GoatJan 11, 2023

@BonehouseWasps @garius

"UK space technology" :P ( irony ) ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vPWE2Ebz48

Star Trekkin'

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Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jan 11, 2023
@gilesgoat @garius Ha! Quite.
Show threadBoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺Jan 12, 2023
@gilesgoat 24 hours, that's now been going around my brain, BTW. 😉
Show threadGiles GoatJan 12, 2023

@BonehouseWasps

.. I had things going in my brain for DAYS !

Show threadCharlie StrossJan 10, 2023
@garius Maybe you could erase the American-built rocket and replace it with a Black Arrow? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
Black Arrow - Wikipedia

Show threadCadbury MooseJan 10, 2023

@cstross @garius

Since it's being dropped from an aircraft, perhaps Blue Steel might be more appropriate - albeit in poor taste?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Steel_(missile)#/media/File:Blue_Steel_missile.png

Blue Steel (missile) - Wikipedia

Show threadJohn BullJan 10, 2023
@cstross Prospero was looking down on the launch and laughing.
Show threadeclectechJan 10, 2023

@garius Thought I should stick with a space theme.

#shapps #rocket #penguin #space #astronaut

Show threadSomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙Jan 10, 2023
@eclectech @garius
This is genius!
Show threadeclectechJan 10, 2023
@ClaireCopperman Thank you!
Show threadCharlie StrossJan 10, 2023

@garius

Incidentally …

Grant Shapps is an anagram of Shart Gnapps.

He's definitely a shart, not so certain what gnapps are, though.

Show threadJohn BrownlowJan 10, 2023

@cstross @garius

Shart PPangs?

I feel them already

Show threadCadbury MooseJan 10, 2023
@cstross @garius Apps released under the GNU licence perhaps?
Show threadJos DingjanJan 10, 2023

@cstross @garius Gnapps, you say?

https://les-schtroumpfs.fandom.com/fr/wiki/Schtroumpfs_noirs

Schtroumpfs noirs

Les schtroumpfs noirs n'apparaissent que dans une seule bande dessinée (tôme 1: les schtroumpfs noirs). C'est le côté méchant des schtroumpfs. Un schtroumpf était entrain de bûcher dans la fôret mais une mouche l'énervait. Il essaya de chasser la mouche Bzz mais la petite bestiole lui piqua la queue. C'est alors qu'il se transforma. Note: si un schtroumpf noir mord la queue d'un autre schtroumpf, il deviendra Noir. Note: si un schtroumpf noir sent le pollen de la Tubéreuse, il redeviendra bleu.

Wikia Les schtroumpfs
Show threadMike PJan 10, 2023
@garius
Show threadPhil HaighJan 11, 2023
@garius @FenTiger a more reliable way to get to orbit perhaps…
Show threadMike PJan 11, 2023

@gulfie @garius Also more celebratory, which I think is what the launch was meant to be about.

I looked for a 1-shaped balloon, but couldn't find a useful photo...

Show threadPhil HaighJan 11, 2023
@FenTiger @garius I don’t think Virgin Orbit has legs and Scott Manley (YouTube) thinks that there is a very limited number of customers that need this kind of service. Even when it makes it to orbit.
Show threadTired and AngryJan 11, 2023
@gulfie @FenTiger @garius I was thinking just that 👍
Show threadChris LJan 10, 2023
@garius Produced with Paint and ten minutes.
Show threadeyajpngJan 10, 2023
@garius MATSODOON?
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
Are we allowed more than one?
Show threadDaniel Brahneborg, PhD 🇸🇪Jan 10, 2023
@edaross @garius *LOL* One of the absolutely funniest ones, thank you.
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023

@basic70

You are welcome.

@garius

Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
A bit niche
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
Nobody expects this
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
Not an event specifically mentioned in https://blog.edross.co.uk/post/703017767258980352/taylorswiftthemusical
so I got #ChatGPT to write a new one
Taylor Swift: The Musical

I have used ChatGPT some more and managed to produce Taylor Swift: The Musical. See requests and replies below (and sorry for how long it takes to get to the lyrics but I hope you agree it was worth...

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Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
🤷🏻
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
I'll get my coat
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
Three to beam down
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
Fitting, given the original https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article21087341.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_JS201199811-1.jpg
Show threadEd RossJan 10, 2023
@garius
Paul Yarrow strikes again
Show threadEd RossJan 11, 2023
@garius
"Too late to be counted as a winner but here to collect the prize anyway"
Show threadHenry Mild Mannered JanitorJan 11, 2023
@edaross @garius This wins it for me. 🤣🤣🤣
Show threadEd RossJan 11, 2023
@garius
I know I have to stop this now. In theory
Show threadkianryan ☑️🐙🏳️‍🌈Jan 10, 2023
@garius Needs more Shapps.
Show threadAdrian HowardJan 10, 2023
@garius Honestly only one creature has the eldritch powers to remove Boris.
Show threadAgoraJan 10, 2023
@garius good one! But that's still Boris Johnson!
Show threadeclectechJan 10, 2023

@garius Oh dear lord. That's me done I think.

Remove a Johnson. Add a johnson.

#shapps #johnson #rocket

Show threadJonathan PolleyJan 10, 2023
@garius You could insert Benny Hill and you couldn’t tell it apart from the original.
Show threadBartoszJan 10, 2023
@garius
Show threadAlexJan 10, 2023
@garius "people called it a pyramid scheme but Davros swore by it. Paid for a whole Dalek fleet".
Show threadSomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙Jan 10, 2023
@Alex @garius
Wonderful!
Show threadAdam CafollaJan 10, 2023

@garius

I thought this might be thematically appropriate.

Show threadPete HawkinsJan 10, 2023
@garius @John_Muir surely you’ve just added Johnson back in there?
Show threadJessica CourtneyJan 10, 2023
@garius