musical lectureI hope this doesn't catch on too much!
If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name, can you hear it? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? If a fly didn't have wings, would it be called a walk? […]
The morning starts with a bang or one bang after another, a series, a chorus - the same sound that lulled me to sleep the night before. Well, I smile to myself, after all it's their country and they're free to do as they like. How does it matter that most cities elsewhere have practically banned firecrackers?
A new version of Humpty Dumpty (a famous chidren's nursery rhyme - click on Read More for the original)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
He didn't get bruised,
He didn't get bumped,
Humpty Dumpty bungee jumped!
(Based on the Major General's song from "The Pirates of Penzance", Gilbert & Sullivan)--Author Unknown powered by ODEO I am the very model of a Usenet individual,I've information meaningless and ultimately trivial,I know the basic elements of alien biology,And all the hidden secrets of the Church of Scientology,I've seen "The Wrath of Khan" and every […]
Many languages refer to everyday objects as either masculine or femimine. Wouldn't English be more interesting and versatile if we did, too? These suggestions are from the Washington Post, which asked readers to assign a gender to nouns of their choice and explain their reason. Here are some of the best submissions:- SWISS ARMY KNIFE: […]