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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 09/09/2026

The puzzle page has all the answers already filled in. Your challenge is just to review it for any mistakes it might have made.

The cover of "Hobbies with ChatGPT" magazine. How bleak.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 17/05/2026

Such dreams used to be possible!

A supermarket filled with Toilet Duck for a 30 second Smack The Pony sketch.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 12/05/2026

I want to know more about this anti-booing technology. Sounds like something the ACME Corporation would make.

Image from i News Eurovision story with caption "Anti-booing technology was used during the performance of Israeli singer Yuval Raphael in 2025"

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 30/03/2026

For b3ta's cartoon music challenge. b3ta.com/challenge/ca...

Lisa Stansfield out looking for her baby with Willy Fog and Rigodon. Being a lion, Fog would see a baby as a delicious snack, so probably good they haven't found it.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 14/02/2026

For b3ta's Comedy Shows In History challenge. b3ta.com/challenge/co...

Delboy falling through the Berlin wall. Trigger pulls a face.

Henry 8th being given a wafer thin mint by John Cleese (currently to be seen going internet loopy on X)

Frank Spencer about to fly the Hindenberg airship. What could go wrong? Leeds Uni recently had a poster up with a quote from a student called Frank Spencer - clearly Some Mothers is no longer a cultural reference point.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 21/12/2025

One for b3ta's Rob Reiner challenge b3ta.com/challenge/ro...

Len Goodman, Benny Goodman and John Goodman in A Few Goodmen

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 13/12/2025

Portrait of Nell Mangel by Helen Daniels 1987

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 23/11/2025

A few for the b3ta Fruit and Veg Replacements challenge. b3ta.com/challenge/re...

Steve Martin looking at a cabbage in a jar.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 17/11/2025

My copy has arrived. About 30 years since I last had anything published in a computer magazine. (Thanks @mattround.com!)

DocType magazine with a couple of type-in books.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 06/11/2025

On the off-chance this one hasn't been done yet.

Trump standing still while Del falls through the bar.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 29/10/2025

A few for b3ta's Two Authors One Book challenge b3ta.com/challenge/tw...

Where Are The Wild Things by Martin Handford and Maurice Sendak

Three Men In Das Boot by Jerome K Jerome (Jerome²) and Lothar-Gunther Buchneim

A Broom of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Julia Donaldson

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 08/10/2025

Some Spooky Pop for this week's b3ta challenge. b3ta.com/challenge/sp...

Polterspice - The Spice Girls jumping off the beds in the Enfield haunting picture. Hai si ja hold tight.

The Beach Boys singing Ba Ba Ba - Ba Ba - Ba Dook with everyone's favourite LGBT icon, the Babadook.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 24/09/2025

Thought I'd google fancy chickens to see which has the most Limahl energy. The Polish silver lace, I reckon.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 18/09/2025

Not getting stung twice.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 09/09/2025

A couple for b3ta's Internet Art challenge. b3ta.com/challenge/in...

Muybridge's running horse photos, but with a bit of YouTube buffering in the middle.

The Creation of Charlie. The Creation of Man, but with Charlie off of Charlie bit my finger. He gone done bit God's finger the crazy fool.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 21/07/2025

A couple of movie pets for b3ta. b3ta.com/challenge/mo...

The Great Escape cooler scene, but the ball is being thrown for a dog to chase.

Indianna Jones but the ball is a hamster playball. Ah-yippie-yi-ooh, ah-yippie-yi-yeah.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 20/07/2025

"Imagine a world where continuity supervisors don't exist..."

She's moved all the rubble, redecorated the shop and her bags have tripled in size. Much wow.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 14/07/2025

Clocks are something AI is known for being particularly bad at, so brave of Public Enemy to go full slop in their new video.

Flavor Flav's clock showing it's both I/ and (II O' Clock.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 02/07/2025

"The Nearly Official UK Dannii Minogue Site" - the reality

Dannii's video with her actual website from 1997, and not one that pretended border-radius existed.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 17/06/2025

We should have listened to Computer Wimp.

A page of 1983's Computer Wimp, warning about privacy in a way that's basically Zuck, DOGE, Thiel and every technocunt's plan.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 28/05/2025

For b3ta's Soaps challenge. b3ta.com/board/11418083 (with a nod to an old Kevin Woodcock cartoon)

Mrs Mangel looking at Helen Daniels' portrait. She has a massive neck and ears so now looks like it.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 18/04/2025

A few for b3ta's Dr Who Goes Pop challenge b3ta.com/challenge/dr...

Crosby, Stills & Nash hiding behind their sofa to watch a VHS of Genesis of the Daleks

Dark Side of The Moon with Tom Baker's scarf being knitted. I didn't think of Dark Side of The Loom when I posted it, but would have been a better title.

The troubling Dr Who pavement head moment, mixed with Shut Up And Dance's Raving I'm Raving, as Paving I'm Paving.

Bob Dylan goes electric by being upgraded by a Cyberman.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 03/04/2025

A couple for b3ta's Topical Movies challenge. b3ta.com/challenge/to...

Sam Altman is The Book Thief. Perhaps should have been Zuck but no one cares about Meta AI, do they?

Falling Down as Falling Dow with Trump behind his podium. I think this works, though I haven't a clue about economics.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 06/03/2025

"There has never been a good double album" and "It would have been better as one killer disc" are not mutually exclusive.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 03/03/2025

This is a lovely nerd project - Snake with a gyro censor. github.com/jo-m/gyrosnek

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 25/01/2025

Available from your local Athena For b3ta's David Lynch challenge b3ta.com/challenge/da...

The Athena poster of the man and a baby but with the Eraserhead gang.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 21/01/2025

The comments all work pretty well as dialogue for The Male Online.

Comments sent to Viz on X put into a Male Online strip.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 14/01/2025

Wondered if the Village People line-up playing Trump's inauguration was a bit of a Bucks Fizz situation. Good infographic on Wikipedia.

Chart showing village people members by character

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 12/01/2025

We're making British things more American on b3ta. b3ta.com/challenge/br...

The Bottom titles screen re-labelled "Fanny" for the Yanks.
"Did you see My Fanny on television last night?"

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 18/12/2024

"That's not a bird" b3ta.com/board/11414047 New b3ta challenge just launched - Sesame Street

The knife scene off of Crocodile Dundee. The mugger has a budgie on his shoulder, but Mick has his arm around Big Bird from Sesame Street. The competitive prick.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 18/12/2024

Mexican Stretchoff b3ta.com/board/11414018

Reservoir Dogs with the guns replaced by everyone pulling on a Stretch Armstrong.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 08/12/2024

Round One b3ta.com/board/11413741

Tree Fighter II - A cat about to fight a Christmas tree. But who will win?

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 26/11/2024

Just started a Ronseal Pop challenge over on b3ta, should anyone want to join in. b3ta.com/challenge/ro...

A Morrison's Van on Top of The Pops as Van Morrison.

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Rico Monkeon @monkeon.co.uk · 14/11/2024

You'd think he'd know by know that doge memes need web colour comic sans text to work. Fixed it.

Elon Musk's awful AI slop DOGE picture with text such as "much cringe" and "so divorce".

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