Stop Your Grousing
 

The grouse auditions for a starring role in new Channel Five sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.

Missing: one grouse (famous). Last seen a few years ago in a variety of mildly amusing adverts based on plays on words. Feared dead at the hands of a Famous Grouse marketing relaunch. What the hell do they call this:

'No, I really think we should ditch the immensely popular, suave, classy grouse for a weird, gold, fluttering hen.'

Our rather more famous grousey friend seems to have been relegated to the 'goodbye' page of the company's website and the advertising annals contained within.

Of course, don't worry that the grouse will disappear forever if the worst turns out to be true and he's been dumped as official mascot. When search engine Ask did that with Jeeves, Dayorama stepped in and gave the old geezer a new home here - he's one of our forty-odd rotating banners at the top. I've got a Dayoramous Grouse banner waiting in the wings, so to speak...

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