More comedy yesterday, this time in the form of Otis Lee Crenshaw, supported by his older nephew, Rich Hall.

Now Rich I’ve seen several times before, three to be precise so most of the jokes I’d heard before (I’m starting to notice a trend here. Maybe I need to start seeing comedians I’ve not seen before…) but nevertheless his grouchy, moaning set was enjoyable as always.

Rich wasn’t the reason I went to the show tonight though. I mean if it had been just Rich then I doubt I would’ve gone down. As it happens, the headliner of tonight was his alter-ego/uncle, country singer, Otis Lee Crenshaw, who I’d yet to witness live, despite being a big fan of his songs.

Suffice to say, he didn’t disappoint. He played two of my favourite songs of his - Insect Boy and Bag Lady - as well as a couple I’d not heard before, but that’s to be expected considering he claims to have a repertoire of over 300 songs. He also seemed rather worried when it turned out that there was both a chemical and nuclear worker on the front row, you know, in case he got radiation poisoning or something. In fact, the only thing that bugged me was his banjo player because I had a feeling I’d seen him before but I can’t quite put my finger on where.

Anyway, here comes the explanation for this blog’s title. After the show had finished we went out into the foyer where Rich was selling Otis Lee’s CDs and signing them. I hung round til the queue had disappeared and approached him with my copy of the Sniglets board game rules. He seemed majorly impressed that I owned the game, signed the rules then went to sign me a CD and I told him that I had no money but he didn’t mind and said I could have it anyway, presumably because I’m cool for owning that board game.

In case you don’t know, Sniglets are words that should be in the dictionary but aren’t. The idea was thought up by the people on “Not Necessarily The News”, which was a satirical American show, of which Rich Hall was a part of and it was him who coined the term and released several books of them. This was over 20 years ago too, with the board game being released about 18/19 years ago. Maybe it’s no wonder he was impressed.

Clearly if the best things in life are free then it must mean that the worst things are ridiculously overpriced, right? This seems to follow through with what I experienced this morning; buses. Right, so it takes me 45 minutes-ish to walk into town or I could choose to pay £1.55 for a ten minute bus ride. To be honest, I’d much rather walk and people wonder why we’re not using public transport. I mean sure, they do special tickets which allow you to ride on buses all day for a fixed price but more often than not you’ll only be wanting to get on the bus to your destination and one back to where you came from, which in most cases will cost less than this fixed price ticket, whilst still being extortionate for what it is, and get this, return tickets are bizarrely not available. I’m sure they’re missing a trick here.

The thing is, I’ve paid over £3 to sit on a scummy bus for 20 mins today just so I can get to and from town. The worst part was the trip home, when what my old art teacher used to describe as “little shits” got on the bus. You know, the loud, obnoxious teenage kids; the ones who insist on playing their God-awful music out of their phone for no apparent reason other than to annoy everyone else.

Edinburgh seem to have got the whole bus thing right mind you. I just wish everywhere else would adopt their system. Their it’s only £1 for a bus ride of any length and only £2.50 for a day ticket, which might go some way to explain why their buses are always full.