Punctuation Parable

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we’re apart. I can be forever happy – will you let me be yours?

Gloria

Dear John,

I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we’re apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?

Yours,

Gloria

Thought for the Day

The Western Nations believe in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

God and Devotion

Burgled from I Am your God

Photo Hunt; Curves

The curve of the wild oats stalks blowing in the wind, the opposing curves of the wild oat grains as they plump out for seeding.

Two curves.

Juke Box 1965

By 1965 the hit parades of the world were beginning to develop in different directions. Almost as though music was seeking a new path.

There were signs of the great unifiers of world youth. The protest folk and the surf scene movements were stirring.

Upchucky keeps it all real with a solid base of blues based hits.

Click on the juke box.

Google Earth Finds Cthulhu

This was so totally burgled from the artist’s site. Please save me from his wrath by visiting him and enjoying the terrors of the Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)

BBC Quiz of the Week

A week which got hotter, hitting 47.8C on Thursday, followed by a thunderstorm that evening.

Organising another load of goods for the store, this time including a stack of Christmas stuff. Plastic trees, hams, turkey breasts and Christmas lights are all on the list this time.

Life is interesting.

Last week Rob and azahar both earned the dunce’s hat with 2/7. This follows their matching 0/7’s a couple of weeks ago!

This week I again scored 4/7

How will you go in this week’s BBC Quiz of the Week?

Good luck. (The link is now there – trying to deal with a concussed boss sort of messed me up a little today)

Previous Dunces
27th Nov, Rob, azahar
20th Nov, 1/7, Ærchie
13th Nov, 0/7, Rob, azahar
6th Nov, 2/7, magic hands, Little fish
30th Oct, 3/7, nursemyra
23rd Oct, 0/7, Karen
16th Oct, 1/7, Cybe R. Wizard
9th Oct, 2/7, Rob, nursemyra, healingmagichands
2nd Oct, 1/7, azahar, healingmagichands
25th Sept, 1/7, Daddy Papersurfer
18th Sept, 2/7, Rob
11th Sept, 3/7, azahar, Puddock, Rob,
4th Sept, 1/7, azahar
28th Aug, 0/7, Herr G EaGle
21st Aug, 2/7, Bunk Strutts, Daddy Papersurfer
14th Aug, 2/7, azahar Puddock, sandy, daisymae81, anniegirl1138,
7th Aug, 2/7, silverstar98121, Bunk Strutts, Mrs Eagle, Cybe R. Wizard, Puddock
31st July, 1/7,silverstar98121
24th Jul, 2/7, sandy,
17th Jul, 2/7, azahar
10th Jul, 1/7, gitwizard, Mrs Eagle

Crown Winners (7/7)

17th Octember Buff
26th Octember, healing magic hands
5th Dec. Buff
9th Jan 2009, azahar
6th Feb 2009, archie
20th Feb 2009, healing magic hands
27th Feb, 2009, Buff
20th Mar, 2009, healing magic hands
3rd Apr, 2009, sledpress
17th Apr, 2009, anniegirl1138, Buff, Archie
15th May, Buff
5th June, Buff
4th July, healing magic hands
29th Aug Buff
5th Sept Buff
12th Sept Daddy P
11th Sept, nursemyra
18th Sept, Buff
25th Sept, Gitwizard
30th Oct 2009, Marty
6th Oct 2009, Buff

Einstein’s Research

The assiduous Swiss have been spring cleaning all their government offices, including the Patent Office in Berne, where a document has been found that might throw light on one of this century’s most radical theories.

According to this document, a page from the diary of one Mileva Maric, her husband Albert “Emceesquared” Einstein, suffered a nervous breakdown circa 1904. He was advised a rest cure and chose the tropical Portuguese dominion of Goa. Being straitened of means, he decided to stay in an inexpensive B&B run by one Mr. D’Souza.

Now the D’Souza’s had a big fight over property with the Sequiera’s next door and one day, the Sequira brothers caught hold of Mr. D’Souza’s son Ronnie and started whaling the tar out of him, as the technical term goes.

Albert, a known pacifist, was aghast. “Why protect him you do not?” he asked of Uncle D’Ssouza who was observing the proceeding with scant concern.

“What? What you sayin, men?” enquired Uncle D’Souza

“When two men him attack, why do him not you defend”? Albert clarified.

“Heh”, Uncle D’Souza said, scornfully. “‘E’s equal to ‘em Sequira’s”. And indeed, Ronnie held his own against the Sequira brothers.

“What say did you?” expressed Albert, with amazement.

Uncle D’Souza repeated himself, adding “If you don’ com’ yer hair, men, you’re bloody going to look like a bloody med bugger”.

But Albert couldn’t hear any of it. He was rushing to catch the next steamer to France and from there to Berne. He had this big theory about e’s equal to ‘em sequiera’s. “But”, he said to himself, “the spelling a bit I had change better”

Sky Watch Friday

I took this shot several days ago, saying, “Looks like we could get some rain by the end of the week.”

The general consensus was that I was being too hopeful. Perhaps I was.

Tonight, caught without my camera, we had a huge thunderstorm to the west, heavy rain cutting the road and isolating us quite effectively for the next few days.

But no rain here. So I was too hopeful.

Although it would have been nice after a day where the maximum was 47.8C and the 6pm temperature was still 39.4C

Blog No Evil

Spinal Tap Amps

Extra Thought For The Week

“If the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.” -

Terence McKenna

Thanks, Cybe

The Score Board

After eleven or twelve years in power, Australia’s Liberal Party is proving totally incompetent as an Opposition.

Yesterday they chose noted head-kicker, climate-change denier and would-be Pope, Tony Abbott as their third leader in two years.

So now they have a guy with a 5 o’clock shadow at 9am. Looks somewhat like another  politician, an American President, from some decades ago. I wonder if the Mad Monk will answer to “Tricky Tony”.

Each one of their  choices has been further to the right. With any luck they will all soon fall off the edge of the political table.

A satirical comic from ABC News Online’s Tim Madden

Thought for the Week

“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive… but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.” — Mark Twain, A Biography.

Bush Cricket

As the evening temperature drops down into the high 30C’s, a little recreation is enjoyed.