James Delingpole James Delingpole

You Know It Makes Sense | 2 May 2009

We on the Right have the best jokes because we accept that the world is a bowl of toenails

issue 02 May 2009

There’s a new application you can get for your iPhone called Baby Shaker, where a baby cries and cries until eventually you get so sick of it you shake your mobile so that large red Xs appear over the baby’s eyes and the crying stops for good. Or rather there isn’t, because someone took offence and complained to Apple and now, annoyingly, it has been withdrawn.

Would I have acquired a copy myself? Well the graphics looked pretty rubbish but I still think it was probably worth the 99 cents, just on the off chance one might have found someone to offend. Sicko, child-related jokes are very useful in this respect, I find. One of my favourites when I was about 14 was:

Q. What’s the difference between a truckload of babies and a truckload of marbles?

A.

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