Category Archives: Humour
Animals on the underground
I didn’t realise that, hidden on the map of the London Underground, are pictures of animals, but there are. Looks like you can buy an (expensive) T-shirt with them on.
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100 Most Often Mispronounced Words
yourDictionary.com has an article on 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words, which is from an American perspective, but interesting to see some of the back-formations (e.g. interpretate for interpret), metathesis (place-switching of sounds e.g. revelant for relevant)
Ordering food in America
Dunstan’s tale about being a Brit ordering food in the States made me smile a great deal. Seemingly a study was done about people believing the printed word (Holiday Inn used to have problems with guests staying past check-out time, … Continue reading
Gettysburg Address in Powerpoint
Gettysburg address – how it would have been with the aid of Powerpoint.
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Goodle Good News
Goodle Good News Entertaining spoof of Google. Cheered me up when I read it!
Googlewhack
British author Dave Gorman, fresh from his winning a bet to find 36 other people called Dave Gorman, sat down to write a novel, and instead, found that his website contained a Googlewhack. The site and the book (“Dave Gorman’s … Continue reading
