http://www.framleyexaminer.com/
The four gallat men behid this wrok of subslime billiance are hers.
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:39 (seventeen years ago)
hmm......
it's, .,,alright.....
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:55 (seventeen years ago)
Mr Hollyhock is one of my favourites.
― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)
So, it's just like another issue of private eye. Funny, sure. "one of the pinnacles of British humour" though? Really? It's no freaking Diary of a Nobody.
― cheese and other good things (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:31 (seventeen years ago)
dude, this stuff, when it's firing, makes Private Eye look like the fuddy-duddy reactionary borefest it is
it's no Three Men In A Boat but then nothing is :D
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:33 (seventeen years ago)
can't really sign off on this.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:36 (seventeen years ago)
the middle section of p.e. is not really the best shit in the magazine, but some of it is still gold.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, 12 February 2009 22:38 (seventeen years ago)
and in any case:
New Pages Scanned In 25/06/2007
..!
― Mark G, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:16 (seventeen years ago)
you can't really go wrong with fake ads imo
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:19 (seventeen years ago)
The best stuff on Framley Examiner is banging, no doubt, but like a lot of newspaper spoofs the story very rarely reaches the genius of the headlines.
Peter Tinniswood did a fake parish magazine website while he was still alive that was very very funny in a Tinniswood whimsical way.
― Otto von Biz Markie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:19 (seventeen years ago)
xpost fake ads otm
Quite often, a very small article makes an entire page worth it, for instance the "Drunk mars bar" article on this one: http://www.framleyexaminer.com/pages/news068.html
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:22 (seventeen years ago)
"Don't forget Flamers is the new name for the Framley fire service" ftw
― Otto von Biz Markie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:25 (seventeen years ago)
K the Tinniswood thing is called Wymsey, tragically enough.
http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymsey/wymsey.htm
― Otto von Biz Markie (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:28 (seventeen years ago)
OK, that page. (xposts)
― Mark G, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
read some of this again
laughed myself stupid
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 21:42 (ten years ago)
the only bit I remember from this (iirc from the cash-in book) was a missed connections ad for someone looking for Paul Weller, who they'd seen at a Paul Weller concert. it was funnier than I'm making it sound
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 August 2015 21:48 (ten years ago)
http://www.framleyexaminer.com/pages/news071
if the lead article here doesn't make you laugh then i can't help you
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 21:56 (ten years ago)
http://www.framleyexaminer.com/pages/fron012
this too, polish name gag aside
― imago, Monday, 17 August 2015 21:57 (ten years ago)
laughed til i cried re-reading some of this this morning. stuff like the Facebook/Ceefax pisstake at the bottom of this. http://www.framleyexaminer.com/images/pages/news071.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 11:54 (ten years ago)