This is a Times Online podcast.

Hello Buglers and first an apology.

We at the Bugle would like to issue a formal official apology for last week's bugle.

The bugle has over the course of the past 30 or 40 years

but in particular over the last 18 months when it has existed come to be seen by its 6.8

billion weekly listeners as a vehicle for only the finest most erudites most

most frequently observe satire.

However, it has been brought to our attention that a vast way of edition 69 of this

podcast was given over to a story about a teenage boy painting a 60 foot penis on his

parents roof. It's also been brought to our attention to

myself and John address this obviously non-globally relevant story with the

relative to snakes discovering a long bandy bob sled. And we did so at a time

when the future of the world's economy and environment were balanced on the

most buttery of knife edges when disease and starvation stalked the planet like the

two little shits they are and on a day when some people somewhere in the world

probably injured their own penises we acknowledge now that this was not only insensitive, but that

we've also let the bugle down and in doing so let down also ourselves, our families, our

Oxbridge education, the world in general and satirical comedy in particular.

We apologize unreservedly and have tended our resignations to each other.

John has, I'm grateful to report, turned down my resignation.

I on the other hand have accepted Johns and the matter is now with the courts.

So for the time being being we are both still here

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