2 points if you can get that article before the 5th paragraph.

What in the hell is this article about? And why was it OKed?

Hoons butt will probably be numb after it gets chewed later this week.

There is NEVER anything amusing about getting a butt numbing from Geoff Hoon. Just ask Tony Blair later on this week.

It was OK'd because of the headline, which is the greatest thing since lava lamps.

The article? Uh, I'm getting to it...

Can someone British dumb this down for us North Americans since we have no idea what goes on outside of our borders? I'm sure this is significant Oliver Stone-type stuff, but we have no context as to who these players are why they'd be so pissy to confront on another.

Again, I'd love to learn what this is about, but who the f*ck are these people and what is their background?

we need a little butt-numbing Hoon here in the states if you ask me.

A seriously numb Hoon:

Butt-numbing Hoon? Is that a Dr. Seuss character?

my hoon is killing me.

so's my poon.

Tang. It's not just for breakfast anymore.

phrenile

peter_hook: this it the inquest into David Kelly's suicide. David Kelly was a high-ranking minister in the Ministry of Defense, who was involved with drafting and reviewing Britain's dossier on why Saddam was such a threat and why it was necessary to go to war. Hoon is Britain's Minister of Defense.

Additional note: Hoon is now expected to take the fall for outing Dr Kelly as the source for Andrew Gilligans report into the 'sexing up' of the dossier row between the government and the BBC. Confused? ...you will be.

Jesus Christ, don't you English speak English?

How is this amusing?

What a Crappy way to start my day!! I can't get a link submitted... butt-numbing hoon does?

/You Bastards!

peter_hook

It is part of a desperate series of diversions in an ongoing scandal, the source of which is all the mendacity that Blair exhibited in justifying QuagRaq.

phrenile and binnster

Kelly I am familiar with. But why is Poon butt numbing? Why would anyone only want to be interviewed by Prescott? See, I have no context as to who these people are. Is this good or bad? Funny or aggrivating? Where do Gilligan and Taylor figure in? Are they just unimportant people? There's like 10 names there that you probably recognise in a second, and have something to relate them to, but I totally miss the joke.

I thought the bastards were about to bash Shannon too...
/takes deep breath, calms down.....

's funny cuz it says "butt"

This is a news article. I thought Fark was supposed to be the source for all things funny or inane.

If I want serious news I'll go to CNN or something.

Off to yellowtimes.org now.

tee hee hee.

Bwahahahaha.

/doesn't like Mr Hoon.

What's up with the Fark Personal Dude? He looks like a cross between Elvis Costello and Woody Allen. He couldn't get laid in a women's prison with a fistfull of pardons.

This article was sufficiently butt-numbing. Like reading a physics textbook.

sick_mother_farker

What's up with the Fark Personal Dude? He looks like a cross between Elvis Costello and Woody Allen. He couldn't get laid in a women's prison with a fistfull of pardons.

Yet, if we read his tagline, we see:

ridenowhere
Most humbling moment: "After 30 minutes on the exercise bike at the Greenpoint YMCA, I threw up in the lobby. I never went back."

Where it should say:

Most humbling moment: "Being unanimously ridiculed by different people in every thread in FARK for looking like a jacked-up Elvis Costello ripoff."

And DistendedPendulusFrenulum

I do get the political screwjob of Blair and Iraq, I just want to know about the butt-numbing. Is this guy someone who talks for 20 hours straight? Does he put needles of novocaine under people's chairs? What? My imagination is running away with me. EDUCATE ME.

How often do you hear that on FARK? EDUCATE ME! ESPLAIN, LOOCY.

peter_hook,

Poon is described as butt numbing in this instance as he would agree to an interview on the condition he could bring up the BBC row for the thousandth time in order to avoid answering any real questions. John Prescott is the Deputy prime minister and would have been the interviewee rather than the interviewer. I can't think why he preferred to be interviewed by John Humphrys, unless the alternative was Jeremy Paxman - who is reknowned for chewing the ass off slimy politicians. Richard Taylor is largely unimportant. Andrew Gilligan wrote the report that started this whole thing. I agree with DistendedPendulusFrenulum, however, that this whole thing has just been a diversionary tactic from Tony Bliar that has backfired since Kellys death. No, none of this amusing, but British politics rarely is.

<----- Look at the dude in the personals. It's Elivs Costello!

What the hell is wrong with the chick in the middle of this picture? As a matter of fact, what the hell is wrong with all 3 of them????

David Kelley? Isn't he the goon that put crap like Ally McBeal and Boston Public on TV? He offed himself? Hadn't heard. And why does the British government care?

fark alert new sbemial......do strongsad impression

EDUCATE ME! ESPLAIN, LOOCY.

I think the Brits want you to infer a lot from what they write. It's about dry humor or something.

My inference is that Hoon is very, very boring.

.

Hmmmmm....

Actually, it's obvious this article is a coy reference to
the popular bird-spotter's joy: the Buttnumbing Hoon.

This small ornithologist's friend is a member of the Hoon
family of finches which perch primarily in Western Europe
during the warm months and range down into Spain and Italy
during the winters. Having a largish yellow stripe down their
backs, they are a favourite of bird watchers, and also make
fine housepets for the lucky people who can manage to entrap
one. They are so-named due to their very unique mating-call
which sounds something like "buttttnumbbbb--bbbbuuuuuttttnuemmmmbbb."
and will provide hours of ornithological merriment for
the comitted bird enthusiast.

HTH

;-)

Another shot of personals guy?

thanks bubs for the cold cuts.........those were moist towellets......i have a sock on my head ? getit off gett it off gettit off.

speaking of butts what happened to the butt thread yesterday?i'm still thinking of miss thunda

"Soup" was a great album.

Also: gimmick trolls have to work harder to be funny.
Harder than that, anyways.

I can't think why he preferred to be interviewed by John Humphrys...

Well, only if Mr. Humhprys is free. Mr. Humphrys, are you free?



Mr. Humphrys: "I'm free!"

An interessting insight into the weird and wonderful psyche of John Prescott. Who in their right mind would *demand* to be interviewed by Humphrys?

that says it all knickers. no-one could possiblt accuse Prescott of being in his right mind.

and they couldn't accuse me of being able to type "possibly" correctly at the first attempt

Name: John Prescott
Occupation: Minder to international war criminal
Specialist Subject: Why that grass Kelly had it coming

Mr. Prescott, you have 2 minutes on your chosen specialist subject, starting now...

I think the article was written in English, but I have no idea what the hell it said.

Was the article written by one of those scripts that randomly assembles words into gibberish sentences?

binnster

Thank you. I understand.

No, none of this amusing, but British politics rarely is.

Oh I dunno. I thought Paddy "Pantsdown" was good for a larf.


IamEvil

"Girl" #3 reminds me of a Semi with a dreamcatcher hanging off of the rearview mirror.

Prolific.

Here comes the chopper to chop off your head.

Chop.

Chop.

Chop.

This Hutton Inquiry--Iraq dossier business could end up being Tony Blair's Watergate, and I should imagine it is about as confusing to Americans as Watergate originally was to the British. If you get most of your news from Faux, you know practically nothing about it, because Murdoch and his unholy minions are backing the Blair government as a part of their own war to destroy the BBC and pick over its choicest bits.

EatHam

I didn't believe it, so I checked. WTF? butt hoon? LOL - nice name, butt hoon.

Kevin Marsh, the programme's editor wrote in an email: "There is nothing to be gained from subjecting the long-suffering British public to yet another... butt-numbing smokescreen...

This Kevin Marsh is f*cking brilliant!
We need a few Kevin Marsh's over here in the states to filter out our butt numbing political pundits.

Butt Numbing Hoon would be a great login.