Punch or the London Charivari hit the news stands today in 1841. It was brilliantly satirical (even if most Victorian jokes are an average of 84 lines long) with fantastic cartoons and poetry. It is now an unrivalled source of social and political history but sadly the mag is no longer with us, replaced by such literary delights as Nuts.
In other news ...
Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong once said (perhaps today in 1954) - 'If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.'
I, for one, am delighted to remain in ignorance.
