Leaving a dead deer in a clown suit on someone’s porch is “immature and illegal.”
Sep 03 2009
And on a Political Note…
…at least Teddy Kennedy and Michael Jackson are now eligible to vote in Chicago.
Aug 26 2009
He’s Not Talking About Me, Really
“The author is also reckless at times and subject to grandiose overstatements…”
– Robert Lund, reviewing Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan in the American Statistician, Nov 2007.
Aug 15 2009
Who Says You Can’t Learn Anything From a Public Education?
“In completing the unit the student has demonstrated the ability to walk to the local bus stop” – Using public transport (unit 1), by exam board AQA
Bobby McHale, 15, is the proud owner of a certificate, earned by successfully catching a bus. As well as walking to the bus stop, the curriculum required candidates to “wait for the arrival of a public bus… enter the bus in a calm and safe manner… sit on the bus and observe through the windows…” Bobby’s younger brother failed.
(HT: BBC News)
Jul 09 2009
The Things You Find on a Bulletin Board
The difference between vegans and normal people...
Jun 18 2009
The Devil’s Greens
Captain Wayne Keble, commander of the assault ship HMS Bulwark, is made of stern stuff. He thinks nothing of being devoured by leeches and ants on exercise in the jungles of Brunei. But when it comes to eating, rather than being eaten, he draws the line at sprouts, or “the devil’s vegetable” as he calls them. They are absolutely banned on Bulwark.
“This has nothing to do with flatulence,” says Capt Keble.
He has taken umbrage against the vegetable simply because he hates it. Capt Keble disclosed details his ban after he was asked to confirm reports he had banned fried foods from his ship.
He said: “The only thing I have banned on board is Brussels sprouts. They are the devil’s vegetable and the only thing I do not like, and the only thing I hate.
“Brussels sprouts are absolutely banned on board HMS Bulwark. I do not eat them so I do not know what the after-effects are.”
(HT: UK Daily Telegraph, by way of BBC Quote of the Day)
So, kids, the important thing to learn here is that you need to grow up big and strong so you can ban the veggies you dislike.
Jun 11 2009
Nothing to See Here, Move Along, Nothing Unusual
From the BBC:
A man who was found with his head severed by a chainsaw was fighting to stay in a block of 70 flats in Hampshire cleared for redevelopment….
His body was found by police on 5 July, who said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a “complete transection of the neck”. …
“There’s nothing suspicious about the death. It was in his flat on Bodmin Road.
“The place is all due to be redeveloped. He was the last resident left there. He lived there alone.”
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman confirmed his death was not suspicious.
May 21 2009
Words You Don’t Want to Hear From Your Doctor
This BBS News report speaks for itself. There are just some words I don’t want to hear from my doctor when I’m on the operating table. Then again, under Obama-Care, maybe we better get used to it.
“Get the Black and Decker” - Dr Rob Carson takes drastic action to treat a boy with a blood clot on the brain.
These are five words not often heard in the operating theatre and enough to terrify any patient. But Nicholas Rossi, 12 at the time, was losing consciousness after falling from his bike and the small city hospital in Victoria, Australia, had no neurological equipment. The household power drill found in the hospital maintenance room saved his life.
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