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The Spicy Cauldron is four years old

This article is part 1 of 4 in an ongoing series A Spicy Retrospective 2004-2008

The Spicy Cauldron celebrates its fourth birthday today. I wasn’t sure how to celebrate, but I eventually decided that this week I will be reposting just one entry per day, Tuesday through to Saturday, from each of the years that the site has been running (so that’s five entries over four years, because I’m going to stick to the calendar years and include the five months of 2004 as one year).

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Monday, August 25th, 2008

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A man who chose 'Lloyds is pants' as his telephone banking password found it changed to 'no it's not' by a Lloyds TSB member of staff. His alternative proposals of 'Lloyds is rubbish', 'Barclays is better' and 'censorship' were all refused. The man is still trying to find a password acceptable to the bank, although it has apologised. Could the bank look any more pathetic right now?

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Eighteen sailors aboard a Royal Navy warship have tested positive for cocaine. All the world is said to love a sailor, but I've personally never found large nostrils (or an interest in cocaine) attractive in any man, even if he wears a lovely uniform!

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