The Usual Excuses

Well it's that time of the year when we here at Alias Poor Yorick traditionally offer up apologies and excuses for being late to press. It's February already and nary a post to be seen. It almost goes without saying that we were waiting for parts to arrive from Sydney. It's an old excuse but a good one. Besides, I like it. Our team was also frightfully busy writing jokes for Sir Peter Jackson's third installment of the Hobbit trilogy "The Hobbit: Shit, It Goes on a Bit Doesn't It ?" Anyway, this year for something a little different I thought we'd try apologising for a couple of things which aren't in any way our fault but it just seems like someone should apologise for them. And I've picked: (a) The invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 by the Italian Army under the direction of Mussolini (b) Dr Geoffrey Edelsten (c) Matchbox 20 Three ghastly pointless horrible detours on the road of life. Sorry. Really really sorry. And finally, sorr...