Friday, April 30, 2004
QOTD
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." Martin Luther King Jr.
Q5. Consider the effect on Ophelia's future if she had known how to swim.
A5. Alternatively, I think that para-gliding would have been a much better activity for Ophelia to undertake. -Ryan
From a real test given in a high school grade 12 advanced English class. None of the questions were real or had any correct answers, but of course, those who didn't study would be the ones trying to come up with a correct answer. Most people in the class were struggling and writing long essays as a response to each question, not knowing that the end of the test explains that the whole thing was a joke. ENG 4A1/4G1 - HAMLET TEST
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From a real test given in a high school grade 12 advanced English class. None of the questions were real or had any correct answers, but of course, those who didn't study would be the ones trying to come up with a correct answer. Most people in the class were struggling and writing long essays as a response to each question, not knowing that the end of the test explains that the whole thing was a joke. ENG 4A1/4G1 - HAMLET TEST
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It's Not always what it Seems to be!
Catch The Floats
KA-BOOM!
Based on the Latest Conclusions of the Most Dubious Wordologists & Comprising Many Hundreds of New Words which Modern Literature, Science & Philosophy have Neglected to Acknowledge as True, Proper & Useful Terms & Which Have Never Before Been Published in Any Lexicon. A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles.
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
QOTD
Saturday, April 24, 2004
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
How NOT to write metaphors.
"She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword" and other allegedly actual similes and metaphors from student essays, mangled like pigeons on Baltimore light rail tracks.
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"She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword" and other allegedly actual similes and metaphors from student essays, mangled like pigeons on Baltimore light rail tracks.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Separate the red balls from the blue
Wok Boarding - An Ancient Sport is Reborn
Sign Language
A collection of photos containing humorous, bizarre, and or confusing signs from around the world. Sign Language
The Reuoltion will be mis-spelled - but it will look damn good
Snow Trooper Game
"Cliches, to Be Honest with You, Drive Us Mad"
Coulrophobia - An irrational fear of clowns.
Some children are terrified by them and a surprisingly large proportion of adults confess to finding them creepy and disturbing, so much so that this word for their condition has had to be invented. It's not old: perhaps from the 1980s. It's from Greek "koulon", a limb, which seems strange until you find the related "kolobathristes" was a stilt-walker.
This seems to have been the nearest its unknown coiner could get to a suitable classical allusion, since classic Greek didn't have a word for a clown in our modern sense.
This seems to have been the nearest its unknown coiner could get to a suitable classical allusion, since classic Greek didn't have a word for a clown in our modern sense.
"Wacky warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times"
"Wacky warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times," says Robert B. Dorigo Jones, M-LAW president. "It used to be that if someone spilled coffee in their lap, they simply called themselves clumsy. Today, too many people are calling themselves an attorney. This "sue first, ask questions later" mentality has not only produced wacky warning labels, it has increased the cost of products and services families use daily. That's the real problem." Wacky Warnings
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group Of.....?
"This site lists the names given for groups of animals. But I see it's missing seagulls. Some examples: A shrewdness of apes, cete of badgers, army of caterpillars, knot of toads, unkindness of ravens, or a clowder of cats." Link.
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Friday, April 02, 2004
Gallery of confusing signs and designs
"This is Broken" showcases confusing/dumb signs, buttons, user interfaces, and products. Link
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Massive Kodak photomontage sets Guinness world record
A gigantic photomontage created by Kodak scored an entry in the Guinness book of world records, and took home gold at the Effie Hellas 2004 Awards. The photomontage - titled "The Whole of Greece in One Smile" -- is comprised of 16,609 photos of Greek citizens, and covers a surface area of over 5,000 square feet. Link
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Flaneurs, Unite
What's a flâneur? Webster defines it simply as "an idle man-about-town," one of those fin-de-siècle dandies who ambled through the crowds of European cities in search of bustle, gossip, and beauty. Flâneur; a magazine dedicated to the celebration of urban life, the sanctification of the stroll.
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