Archive for the 'Misc' Category

It’s the littlest things

Friday, January 18th, 2008

The walk into work this morning was rather depressing; cold and wet, with heavy cloud being marshalled across the sky by a blustery, persistent wind. But as I past a noisy building site and a busy road junction, I heard a beautiful sound. On the opposite side of the road, atop a tall lime tree, [...]

Silly suds

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

I always wondered, if washing powder is a detergent, why does it feel greasy when it gets wet?

No shit, Sherlock

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Warning printed on a packet of Sainsbury’s almonds:

Alergy advice Contains nuts

Who’d have thought it?

Never poke fun at a pontiff*

Saturday, April 9th, 2005
  • Sung to the tune of Monty Python’s “Never be rude to an Arab”.

MediaWatchWatch today reports on an attempt to silence a village web site for their somewhat irreverent reporting of Pope John Paul II’s recent demise, and for publishing a page of (dun dun durr) Pope Jokes (the very idea). The webmaster [sic] of [...]

More grist for the 419 mills

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

BBC news online reports that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet stowed away more than $13m (£6.8m) in 125 bank accounts around the world.

I’m sure I can expect another round of Nigerian 419 scam e-mails offering me a share in this huge fortune once I hand over a modest transfer fee. <irony>I can’t wait to spend [...]

From my cold, dead hands

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

This morning I received an e-mail from someone calling themselves Verisoft LLC, offering $1000 to buy my drawingbusiness.com domain name. A quick Google search revealed that I am not the only one to have received such an offer:

I am interested in purchasing your domain name drawingbusiness.com. I can offer you $1000 for the [...]