1. Michael Mcintyre - "do people really think he's funny daddy?"

2. How the Halifax thought their ad agency had come up with a good TV advert

3. Why people think David Cameron and George Osborne understand them

4. T4 music - but then that's more they can't get me to understand it!

And that was just over the last 24 hours!

• By launching karaoke as a national pastime on TV he’s forcing people to either go back and find the original songs or to go elsewhere to get their music if they don’t want to sing along
• Good original performers with no chance now of getting on TV will look for better and more original ways to get their music heard (yeah for the internet!)
• Natural teeth colouring will come back as no one will want teeth as white as his, meaning any non Cowell music on TV will be more noticeable because of the bad teeth, and therefore British bands stand a better chance of making it
• All these cover versions mean more money for the original composers if they haven’t already sold their soul, ha ha ha ha.....
• It keeps really annoying idiots away from gigs (cos they’re trying to get on one of his shows)
• No more karaoke machines in pubs
• Early Dylan will be acclaimed as people tire of all the Cowell led false self flagellation and self pity
• Cowell music keeps Pete Docherty off the front pages (and perhaps means he has to write some music to get the money to score the drugs)
• We will at last realise that all those dreadful novelty records he produced were awful and not kooky as we recognise his hand in them
• He gives underemployed has beens something to do other than make comeback records by appearing on his shows thereby saving our ears
• He will use more and more makeup which will hopefully mean less for KISS and therefore lessening the chances of any more tours
• It gave Susan Boyle something to do
• It keeps Simon Cowell out in the open where we can keep an eye on him
• It means no one else has to be him

Now this is a topic I usually bore my better half with but I firmly believe that there has never been a cover version better than the original. Now the original must have been recorded before the cover.

So far, in my forty five years I've found just two cover versions better than the original:

1. This Mortal Coil's Song to the Siren
2. Four Tops version of Walk Away Renee

These are the exceptions that prove my homemade rule of music!

Thoughts please