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Category Archives: Language
It’s Soccer Club!
Soccer has made a comeback in North America. But you wouldn’t know that by the names. Toronto F. C. is the local team here in my part of North America. F. C. stands for football club. This Eurotrash attempt to … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Sports
Tagged Argos, Brexiting Eurotrash, cowboys, Europe, Eurotrash, F. C. Dallas, F. C. stands for football club, football, Giants, Jets, Manchester S. C., Manchester United, New York City F. C., North America, North American English, soccer, Toronto F. C.
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IRE Land
While on my way to Ireland from the mainland, I stopped in at Britain. While there, I got into a conversation with an Englishman who asked where I was traveling. I told him and he immediately said, “It’s called Ireland … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Language
Tagged angry land, Britain, England, Englishman, Gaelic, ire, Ireland, Ireland is green, racism, serenity, Shetland
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Everything Bagels
“Look at that sign at that restaurant,” said Matt, one of my group of four friends that were wandering around looking for something to do in our boring little city. “It says ‘our everything bagels truly have everything’. No way … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language
Tagged can't see or hear or touch the soul, caviar, dinosaur egg, everything bagels, huge egg, Jurassic Park headed off, microscopic black hole, microscopic black holes don't suck everything in, our bagels truly have everything, sign, soul, unfertilized egg, we choose to stop eating at the boundary of the bagel
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Don’t Scrooge the Grinch or Grinch Scrooge
The people in charge of our words look like they don’t know the story of How the Grinch Stole Christmas or The Christmas Carol. The biggest take away from these two stories is that the Grinch is now one of … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language
Tagged A Christmas Carol, as the proto grinch with your illegal anti Christmas actions, Christmas, don't grinch or scrooge this post, early, early scrooge philosophy on life, grinch, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, miser, proto, scrooge, steal Christmas, the Grinch
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The British Royal Family Has a Problem with Titles
Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, is not the Princess of Wales to match her husband’s title. Indeed if the day that Queen Elizabeth abdicates or dies ever comes around, it was said at their marriage that Camilla’s husband would then … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Humour, Language, Politics
Tagged "the sun never sets on the British Empire, Birtish Royal Family, British Empire, British royalty titles, Camila, Canada, Duchess of Cambridge, Duchess of Cornwall, Empress Victoria, Kate, King Charles, King William, Oedipus triangle, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Phillip, Prince William, Princess consort, Princess of Wales, Queen Consort, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth is our head of state, Queen Victoria
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Making Insects Into Spiders
Let’s say someone mocks you for calling spiders insects. There is only one way out of this (that is if you rule out killing the mocker – which usually isn’t done in polite society). That way out is somehow making … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Pseudo Science, Science
Tagged ants could also enslave caterpillars, ants could do most of these things, arachnid, butterflies, caterpillars, chemistry, cocoon, eight legs, glue, insect, insects and spiders are all bugs, insects have two compound eyes. caterpillars of moths and butterflies can spin string material, leaf cutter ants, maybe sophicticated insects can move their antenna, moths, polite society, six legs, solvent, spider, spiders have eight eyes, two lame legs
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I Want to Be a Superior Being
A lot of the people that try to be superior beings do not have simple, step-by-step, actionable plans to get there. I on the other hand, do. Ontario is my Canadian province that I live in. It is the Great … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Language
Tagged do superior beings meditate and seek wisdom?, Great Lake province, Huron and Michigan are at the same elevation and thus are the same lake, Huron-Michigan is the largest fresh water lake in the world, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Huron-Michigan, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, march on government of Ontario to change name to Superior, Michigan, Ontario, Superior, superior beings, the great lakes, the US doesn't have a great lake that is fully enclosed by its borders
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Harvard is a Serviceable Trainer
I have to say that Harvard is nothing special. It is very utilitarian and makes a serviceable trainer. People might tell you its the best of the best but I say that those people just haven’t lived yet. Harvard and … Continue reading
Orange Heads
I don’t know why but our society has this thing against the colour orange. In topics that don’t seem to matter orange gets slurred. I don’t know why. The first time I had an inkling of this was when I … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Language, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged auburn, burgundy, Czechoslovakian Skoda, favourite colours, flamehead, hair, hot heads, Houston Astros, orange, orangehead, pumpkin orange, purply reds, red, redhead, Skoda, stereotype of redheads, unnatural hair colours, wood flames are mostly orange
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This is a Work of Fiction
Janna was a broad consumer of books of fiction. So it was no surprise that she entered Epimenides Bookstore. What might have been surprising is how quickly she passed by the displays, not even reading a word. She was on … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Writing, Wry
Tagged book prices usually are the cover price or less, books, can a disclaimer affect price, can a disclaimer invalidate copyright, copyright military industrial complex, disclaimers of reality don't have much of a place in SF, Epimenides paradox, Fiction, historical fiction needs a strong disclaimer, out of season sale, sale, self referential paradoxes, This is a work of fiction
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