Fonetic alfabets |
You know what it's like... you're on a crackly phonecall to some wise-@$$ who insists on mis-spelling your details and you want to quote the phonetics at him/her. Well, I can remember "T for Tango", "...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:40:00 GMT |
An Allegorical Afternoon? |
This afternoon I went for a drive. One of those drives with no purpose other than the drive itself. Starting off in World of Pine where I couldn't find what I was looking for, it was time for the mean...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:20:00 GMT |
Funny pants |
I have a dear transatlantic friend who seems to think she's learning The Queen's English*, as spoken by UK of E natives, from my comments and blogs. That in itself is rather ticklesome but some of the...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:47:00 GMT |
Aspirations: Olympian, joining the Paras, US Presidency |
Remember the last Paralympics? Apart from it being silly to drop all the participants into the stadium from an aeroplane, there was some hoo-ha about teams entering players on rather suspect selection...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:20:00 GMT |
The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth |
Well it was an emergency trip to the dentist today, after a weekend of jaw-aching anti-bliss. Though as they say, "A bit of pain never hurt anybody."
Having had an x-ray it was, fortunately, a clear-c...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:16:00 GMT |
Speed bumps |
It's high time we stopped discriminating against minorities and made it easier for them to have access to personal transport the same as their luckier friends. Simply passing the driving test is so ob...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:45:00 GMT |
Tag - Im it! |
I've been tagged. Here's what that means for any newbie readers:
"The rules in this game of tag are simple -- once you have been tagged, you must write a blog with ten fascinating facts about yourse...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:40:00 GMT |
Novices Guide to a British Christmas Dinner |
A. Reserve supply of antifreezeB. Failed Origami experimentC. Child-repellentD. Roast tatersE. Bread sauce (grated bread & fingernail, milk, onion, allspice, cloves)F. Anti-gravity juiceG. ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:24:00 GMT |
Linguistic Mono-Contextualisation |
Gotta love the English language - there are so many ways to murder it!
It's said (maybe in a different language) that English is the most versatile, flexible, linguistic tool of modern time...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:39:00 GMT |
SUVs and rubber |
Just a quickie rant of a blog, so I can forget about this and get on with my work.
SUVs are safe.
Caring mothers dropping their kids off at school drive them, saying how wonderfully safe they feel and...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:09:00 GMT |
