30 December 2008

A Moving Story

A few months ago my neighbours across the street moved away and a young couple moved in to their old house.

The young couple seemed happy with their dog, garage full of petrol powered boy toys (road bike, trail bike, jet ski), and his Subaru Impenis with the obligatory super huge exhaust pipe...

After a couple of months a For Sale sign appeared, the next day a van came to pick up some furniture and the boy toys, and the couple were not seen again.

The swiftness of the move pricked my interest and when my next door neighbours paid us a visit recently I asked the husband if he had any news on what had happened.

"Oh Charlie across the road? He got caught shagging someone at his work. Jacked his job in and moved back home..."

When the neighbours had left I told Mrs TK that I knew what had happened to the couple across the road.

"So do I", said Mrs TK, "Mrs Neighbours Wife told me that the guy was having an affair"

What's in a phrase eh?

27 December 2008

1 Baltic Place

A fitting address at this time of year! on TwitPic

Some addresses are very true, especially at this time of year!

25 December 2008

Merry Chrimbo


Hope you all enjoy the festivities.

Feel free to drink too much, eat too much, and share the sweet aroma of your sprout farts...

All this is allowed because as Mr Holder says (repeatedly)

It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssttttmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss!



20 December 2008

S'no Man

One for young Master TK.

His favourite advert at the moment...


19 December 2008

Must Be The Time Of Year...

This track came on the tunes box this morning during the drive to work and struck a chord...

Please lay down your pistols and your rifles
Please lay down your colours and your creeds
Please lay down your thoughts of being no-one
Concentrate on what you ought to be

Then lay down your bullshit and your protests
Then lay down your governments of greed
Take a look at what lies all around you
Then pray God we can live in peace

Everyone's a loner 'till he needs a helping hand
Everyone is everybody else
Everyone's a no-one 'till he wants to make a stand
God alone knows how we will survive


Pretty sure that this band are so deeply unfashionable that no-one will know who the song is by.

Looking forward to some entertaining guesses though!

C'est La Vie

There's just too much Xmas pap around at the moment.

Here's some alternative listening that my old office buddies at A Major Engineering Company may recall.


Go on, get a loif...



5 December 2008

Wise Words


HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY?

You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming..  [Alan, age 10]

No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with.   [Kristen, age 10]

WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?

Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then.  [Camille, aged 10]

HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?

You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids...  [Derrick, age 8]

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?

Both don't want any more kids.  [Lori, age 8]

WHAT DO MOST PEOPLE DO ON A DATE?

Dates are for having fun, and people should use them to get to know each other. Even boys have something to say if you listen long enough..   [Lynnette, age 8]

On the first date, they just tell each other lies and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.   [Martin, age 10]

WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?

I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns.  [Craig, age 9]

WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?

When they're rich.  [Pam, age 7]

The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that.  [Curt, age 7]

The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do.  [Howard, age 8]

IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?

It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them.  [Anita, age 9]

HOW WOULD THE WORLD BE DIFFERENT IF PEOPLE DIDN'T GET MARRIED?

There sure would be a lot of kids to explain, wouldn't there?  [Kelvin, age 8]

And the #1 Favourite is........

HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?

Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a dump truck.  [Ricky, age 10]

3 December 2008

In The Clouds

Found a new site that allows you create "word clouds".  The site can take RSS input from blogs and autogenerate a cloud from the content.  

The results are quite impressive.

Here is how some of the favourite sites round here look...









If you fancy trying this out for yourself take a trip across to Wordle.