David Walliams Swims 140 Miles of the Thames

British comedian David Walliams swam to Houses of Parliament from the source of the Thames river. 140 miles. He completed the swim for charity and raised more than £1 million.

As if swimming 140 miles was not enough, his main challenge was living though "Thames Tummy", which is the diarrhoea and vomiting caused from the famously unclean waters of the Thames river. A lot of the Thames pollution is from sewage. Yuck!

David is famous in England for his BBC comedy show "Little Britain" in which he plays a myriad of characters. He looks great in his swimming outfits, he is in great shape, obviously. But most people know him as his alter egos on "Little Britain". For instance, he plays the extremely conservative church lady who gets sick when confronted with today's "liberal" social norms. She doesn't just get sick - she uncontrollably projectile vomits on the naive "liberal" victims.

Yes, it is so gross it is funny...

I am sure that was thinking about the church lady while he was vomiting while swimming in the Thames. I wonder if this will change his future portrayal of the character?

"Little Britain" is available for instant play on netflix. Go to http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Little_Britain/70140407?trkid=2361637. Caution! Some of it is raunchy! The Brits like it that way.

You may wonder "Where is the source of the Thames?" It is called Thames Head, about one mile north of Kemble, near Circencester in Gloucestershire.

Thames head in 1850. Copyright © English Heritage.NMR

Houses of Parliament, where he swam to:

The Debt Movie Review

Rating: A
Note: This movie is rated R. Not for kids!

Saw the movie. Liked it.

This espionage thriller takes place in 1966 and 1997. There are lots of East Berlin reenactments which were pretty well done, gave the the feel that they actually filmed it in 1966 East Berlin. Good plot. I recommend it. It is one of those movies that transports you to another time and after the movie the first several seconds out of the theater into the real world are confusing.

Actress Helen Mirren does a really good job in this movie. She is very intense and has a really bad scar that makes you wince every time you see it on her face. Strange how they do not show her face scar on the movie poster.

Jessica Chastain (never heard of her before) plays Helen's character as a young woman. She is really gorgeous! At least until she got hit in the face with a broken piece of china, the source of the scar. Wince.

Jessica Chastain - without scar - whoa momma!

I kept thinking about the cut-turned-bad-scar on her face. She should have tried this:

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Face In Cutout Hole

You know those large billboards where you put your face through the hole into a scene and it is supposed to look funny or cute, but it never really works?

Well, someone sent me a picture that actually seems to be worth the effort. The picture to the left looks funny and cute. Is she really reading that book? It looks like she is! But I am not really convinced the beaver is reading his book.

If you have any "successful" billboard-scene-face-cutout pictures - send them to me and I'll post them.


Update: Someone sent me a cute cut-out picture! Finally harnessing the true power of the web. See below.

Pretty cute!

And another one! (Same model as in the first picture)

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