Following Jim Moran’s success with the National West Virginia Axe Company, he was quickly employed a few months later by a little known Texas Saw Company. Moran employed oarsmen from two competing rowing teams who came all the way from Washington for a cleverly devised photo opportunity. Using huge saws from the saw company, the…
Steve Irwin fans have allegedly been have been killing stingrays in a series of revenge attacks for his death. This week we shall be taking revenge on baths for removing Jim Morrison from us in his prime we have the mallets and the sacks we’ll need it may be late in the day for such…
In 1955, Jim Moran devised a stunt to promote the National West Virginia Axe Company, founded over 50 years before, but struggling to maintain their profits in the axe saturated capital of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Moran commissioned a photographer to photograph numerous prisoners in a local jail, shaving with axes made by National West…
Uma Thurman, 36, recently admitted she was on the look out for a toy boy and it seems 29-year-old Orlando Bloom could fit the bill. She said: “I know women who like to have ‘boy toys’ – and actually I could grow into that.” The Borkowski poet in residence imagines what might be going through…
A sullen and potentially unstable truce was struck yesterday between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown after the prime minister reluctantly bowed to the demands of the chancellor and rebel MPs by promising to step down within 12 months. “One way or another I’ll be gone within the year,” says Tony Blair adjusting hair and playing…
‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin has died. The wildlife presenter was filming a documentary off the coast of Australia earlier this week when a stingray attacked him, using its poisonous barb to pierce his chest. So long Steve Irwin, eco-Crocodile Dundee. You pursued savage beasts with irreverent glee. Badgered them, bothered them all through the wild…
Sir Mick Jagger forgot the words to classic Rolling Stones song ‘Ruby Tuesday’ during a concert last week. Mick covered up his memory loss by singing the same verse twice. He also has an oxygen tank backstage to help him get through his grueling live shows. Hey you get offa my tank. I need all…
As my mother once said, never expect to please everyone .. Robin Hoodwinked? By John Plunkett / Television 12:55pm It’s the biggest mystery since ITV commissioned a second series of Love Island – what has happened to the master tapes for Robin Hood? And is Hungary’s answer to Police Five’s Shaw Taylor on the case?…
One of Jim Moran’s publicity stunts involved the actress Ann Blyth taking a bubble bath before the eyes of photographers in Los Angeles for the National Association of Inventors. Blyth had just made a debut in the movie “Mr Peabody and the Mermaid” and had won an accolade for playing the mermaid. Moran thought she…
In the past, a goad, or prick, used to be used to jab an ox used to till the soil. Sometimes the ox would refuse this incentive by kicking out at the prick. As result, the prick would be driven deeper into the flesh of the rebellious animal. In the case of Paramount versus Tom…