Some Comic Relief From Wornby

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Life eh? You’ve got to laugh, the laughs run a little thin amongst certain communities of the world though. I’m sure you don’t want to be bombarded with a humanitarian message, I mean, many of us suffer from charity burn-out these days. All those ads on TV, miserable ads depicting every kind of sufferance you can imagine. That might be why the people behind Red Nose Day conjured up the idea in the first place, it first appeared shortly after Band Aid (the original 80′s version – with that awful Xmas song that I won’t repeat here).

Comic Relief‘s Red Nose Day took the idea in a more comedic direction, something unimagined before then, basically humour and suffering didn’t mix, it was seen as bad taste, but they pulled it off, mainly by constantly recruiting the top names in British comedy every year (or almost), sometimes it can be a little grating, a sort of emotional roller-coaster, first a funny sketch with Little Britain or some old Python, and then a series of traumatising images of Third World suffering. Still they have to get the message through somehow. The monies raised will be used by the charity to provide aid and support throughout Africa and the UK benefiting a number of causes including malaria, education and maternal and mental health.

Anyway the t-shirt label Wornby have decided to back the campaign this year by re-releasing a vintage replica of classic t-shirt ‚ÄòManilla Gorilla’. The ‚ÄòManilla Gorilla’ t-shirt was made famous by the phenomenon of boxing that is Muhammad Ali, worn in the run up to his legendary fight with Joe Frazier on October 1st, 1975 at Areneta Stadium, Manila. After a previous defeat five years earlier, he gained victory over his rival and mockingly named this heated fight ‚ÄòThe Thriller in Manila’ whilst mockingly referred to Frazier as the ‚ÄòGorilla’.

I’d have liked to have seen Wornby contribute a damn sight more to the cause than the piddling £5 to Comic Relief, I mean the t-shirt costs a whopping £38??? That’s around $53 in US dollars. What the hell is going on, it looks like they’ve added the cost of their contribution to the t-shirt. I can’t see why they’d charge so much, in fact if I was you I’d do this…

Search for a Gorilla in Manilla (or Manila) T-Shirt on Google.

Here’s some I found:-

Muhammad Ali Zaire 74 MANILLA GORILLA T-Shirt Large @ Ebay.co.uk – from Propaganda T-Shirts – £10.99
Manilla Gorilla T-Shirt by Stallion00 @ Zazzle.co.uk – £19.15 or Zazzle.com – $22.75
Vanilla Gorilla (Funny Version) @ More Tee Vicar – £12

I’m sure there are plenty more out there, anyway pick up one for a decent price and then give the remainder of that £38 (PLUS £4 POSTAGE!!!) to Comic Relief. There’s one thing I hate and that’s companies and celebrities piling on the charity bandwagon for the purposes of god knows what, money, publicity, good P.R. The (un)funny thing is it was a P.R company (removed name after legal threats) that tipped me on this story which proves my point, don’t hand over your money to these people, give it straight to the charity every time.

Okay that’s the rant over and done with… float like a butterfly sting like a bee.

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