God suddenly appeared.
There I was, minding my own business, when it happened. Out of the blue. No warning. Just came. God, or rather almightygod, appeared on my screen about three days ago. And she/he/it has appeared with great regularity ever since. Just popping up out of nowhere, reminding me of important things, and revealing the [...]
Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
Queueing For Change
Posted in Humanity, Humor, Humour, Internet, Society, Technology, Travel, tagged mobile phone, mobile, Internet, handset, O2, Web, Florence, Uffizi, iPhone, iPhone 3G, Northumberland, queue, emails, browsing, Net, CCTV, queueing on July 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve had difficulties in deciding what to do. Readers who have been following this heart-rending story (see My Dilemma) will know that it has been a harrowing time. However, things came to a head over a week ago - July 11, the day before I went on holiday.
We were going to Northumberland for a week [...]
The Pink Elephant
Posted in Humor, Humour, Language, tagged Superman, New Internationalist, Peter Greenwall, Celine Dion, webcam, Garden of Eden, label, warning, consequences, photocopier, electric toothbrush on June 30, 2008 | 9 Comments »
If I say to you, “Don’t think of a pink elephant,” it is, of course, the first thing that comes to your mind, whereas if instructed to think of a green one, you are unlikely to have internal pictures of pink.
There is a school of thought which says that we should be more careful about [...]
The English Patient (2)
Posted in Health, Humor, Humour, Language, tagged angiogram, cardiac, hospital, medication, stress on April 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I mentioned in my last posting how communication was one of the issues that contributed to the high stress levels of my hospital stay. I want to expand on that today. However, I must acknowledge that the communication confusions were also a source of mirth, albeit unintended.
From my perspective there were four communication [...]
The Christian Gene
Posted in Humanity, Humor, Humour, Morality, Religion, Uncategorized, tagged Christian, gay, genes, genetics, homosexual on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to Unsaved for bringing this to my attention.
Huge Payout
Posted in Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Religion, tagged clergy, priests, Roman Catholic, sexual abuse on March 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m grateful to Freethinker for this posting which seemed too important to pass by:
THE Roman Catholic church in the United States paid out £306 million in 2007 to victims of sex abuse involving members of the clergy – an increase 54 percent over the previous year, and the largest sum ever paid in a single [...]
Fundamentalist Lightbulb
Posted in Humor, Humour, tagged Christian, fundamentalist, joke, lightbulb on March 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Interactive joke day:
How many fundamentalists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Please complete the joke by leaving your answers in the comments below.
My own tentative suggestion:
None. Fundamentalists profess not to believe in change. (Though secretly, some of them have been changing light-bulbs very slowly over the years.)
The Earth Moved
Posted in Humor, Humour, Uncategorized, tagged Earthquake, England, Wassat on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On February 27, England had the biggest earthquake in 24 years, measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale. I know it is old news now, but as I slept through it (despite it waking my family and neighbours), I was keen to know what it was like, and I found the following amusing.
Paraphrasing Descartes
Posted in Education, Existential, Humanity, Humor, Humour, Philosophy, Uncategorized, tagged Camus, computer science, Descartes, Hegel, Kant, math, mathematics, maths, Philosophy, Prospect, Sartre, solitaire, sudoku, undergraduates, Varsity on February 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I am grateful to Prospect for enlightening me. (And by the way, this is written ‘tongue in cheek’ so don’t flame me with angry comments. It’s Friday morning, and I’ve wound down already!) Apparently there is a big difference between maths undergraduates, and those studying philosophy. I always suspected that was [...]
A Walk in the Forest
Posted in Humor, Humour, Uncategorized, tagged publishing, writing, bookseller, book title on February 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the grammar school I attended the compulsory morning assemblies were fairly dire - at least until I was a prefect and allowed to sit on benches at the side of the hall. However, one of the more entertaining rituals was an assembly that took place each term, approximately three weeks before the holidays [...]
