Author Archives: Chief Cobra

Atishoo, atishoo, their pants fall down

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Being caught with your trousers down is never good unless you have a truly spectacular undercarriage. Take the games industry as an example: First, Atari were caught by themselves, Sega and Nintendo. Then, Sony strolled in and caught Sega. Sony, … Continue reading →

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Twelve Spider Pile-up

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Chief Cobra

My umbrella looks like a twelve spider pileup. Instead of the glorious press-sliiiiide-sproingggg action that it used to do when I deployed it, I now get a urrggghhh, griiiiind, thuhhhhd followed by the sprinkling and tinkling sound of little bits … Continue reading →

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‘Tis the season to eat chocolate: The Universal Cake Recipe

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Easter is pretty much here which means spring has sprung and nature is giving birth to a wonderful display of green. As we all know from Wikipedia, Easter is when we celebrate an event that occurred two millennia ago when … Continue reading →

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The Zombie Apocalypse

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Chief Cobra

We all know that the zombie apocalypse is coming, but when, exactly? Well, if the movies are anything to go by, I would say quite soon. Indeed, if you can bear it, it probably makes sense to hang around teenagers … Continue reading →

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Five no trumps. What could go wrong?

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Whilst I feel like a fallback to the British empire saying this (hahaha! We once had an empire!), I must express my enormous disappointment about the severe lack of bridge players these days. I think of it as a national … Continue reading →

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What does this button do?

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Chief Cobra

“The only ‘intuitive’ interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” Well, restring my guitar, this is interesting in a “come back and haunt you” sort of way. The gist of the article is a bloke from Samsung saying … Continue reading →

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Book Club

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Chief Cobra

The first rule of Book Club is that we talk about Book Club as often as we can because books are cool. Recently, I read The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It was forced on me by my … Continue reading →

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The youth of today

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Chief Cobra

Iremember when I was a youth of today. Then, today becomes yesterday, then yesterday becomes the 80s and the 90s and with a radio retune to BBC Radio 4, I find that the only rocking drugs I am doing are … Continue reading →

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Big beer, little beer, glass of wine

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Chief Cobra

So Mrs Cobras and I were at a hotel in Montpellier recently sitting at the bar (go on, act surprised, if you can) trying, unsuccessfully, to get Baby Cobra to sleep whilst waiting for the restaurant to open. This bloke … Continue reading →

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Tuesdicoccus Daylori

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Chief Cobra

Germs, germs, germs. The Cobra family have had so many of them this year that we were beginning to think that we had value to medical research. Of course, we blame Baby Cobra: she is a germ magnet. A cute … Continue reading →

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