Harrods Story Debunked

A nice story going the rounds about a disgruntled worker getting revenge on the Harrods store.

Apparently the chap barricaded himself in the room with the controls to the 10,000 bulbs of the store's Christmas lights and managed to create this message.

Which is quite funny until you start to think about it and realise that there would never be a room with 10,000 individual switches and, even if there were, it would take some unique skill with a switch toggle to curve the strings of lights into the curves shown for the letter "K"...

A search on Google for "harrods" lists the story quite a lot - but only from blogs and joke sites. Not a single news site is mentioned.

And what a disappointment...

Do a search on Google Images for "harrods christmas lights" and look what is the very first photo to come up - taken on Oct 29 2009.

Please try harder...

Debunked!

Zebra Joke

Back in the 1980s I used to freelance photos and articles to magazines a lot. A regular place to visit was Blackpool Zoo which gave me the chance of lots of photos that could be used for caption competitions of which there were (and probably still are) lots of examples in all kinds of publications.

This one was featured in the womens' magazine Annabel I also had similar photos published in She, in the Club Canon members magazine and even in the magazine of a photo develop and processing company. This one was always one of my favourites though, if for no other reason than you seldom see a zebra yawning. My favourite caption? "Silly ass! You left your pyjamas on!"

"Pssst! Don't tell anyone I told you this but..." Actually the raised foot belongs to the parrot at the back. I wasn't so lucky!

"Where shall we go today?"