Eric Idle has cut all jokes about Britney Spears from his ecologically sound musical, Spamalot, because he doesn’t consider them funny any more. These are laudable sentiments.

The media is especially cruel to famous women who fall off their perch, devouring their descent with grisly relish. There is no excuse for the horrific treatment meted out to, among others, Heather Mills McThumbs-Up. You may have been invited to take sides in a divorce, but how low would you have to sink as a journalist if the magnate on your shoulder requires you to support the strong and ridicule the weak?

But that’s a digression. I wondered if we could start a campaign to encourage Eric Idle to realise that, as much of his other work isn’t funny either, he should consider withdrawing it too. Would the world miss Ben Elton saying how much The Rutles had informed his subsequent career as a novelist/playwright?

Also, while I was helping my wife to give birth the other day (she missed with most of her shots), my mind rumbled across what may be the most awful song lyrics couplet of all time.

It’s taken – ominously – from the Tears for Fears song “Sowing the Seeds of Love”, and appears to be a serious attempt at late-80s sociopolitical comment, by way of the lamest assault on That Bloody Woman … ever! And here it is:

“Politician grannie with your high ideals / Have you no idea how the majority feels?”

There’s no real point to me posting this, as such. I’m not angling for others to reply with their offerings, though that would be nice if it isn’t the usual list (and knowing the regular contributors here, it won’t be). It’s just been in my head, and I needed to put it somewhere.