Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church’s morals, kept sticking her nose into other people’s business. Several members did not approve of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new church member, of being an alcoholic after she...
Archive for June, 2009
Follow up: Shell complicity in executions
Previous post here “Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to pay out $15.5million (£9.7m) to settle a lawsuit over its alleged complicity in the 1995 execution of several Nigerian environmental activists. In a move announced yesterday, the company acknowledged no wrongdoing in the 1995 hangings of six people opposed to oil exploration in the...
Dear Santa #2
My friend Pletterpet will probably give a well thought out write up about this new game, but I thought I’d jump the queue and just mention it briefly. Scribblenauts is a fancy puzzle game on a console, similar so those old Donkey Kong games, based on the new Nintendo DS console. According to Pletterpet, these go...
Dwarves
Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarves are not Happy.
Sign language
A construction worker on the 3rd floor of a building needs a handsaw and spots another man (Veli) on the 1st floor. He yells down to him, but the noise makes it impossible to hear anything, so he tries sign language. He points at his eye meaning “I”, points at his knee meaning, “need”,...
Rare snaps – domesticated man-animal
That’s right, the subject has been caught by surprise and these stolen pics have been leaked onto the interwebs…..
Having a rough day
my “Mind made up” baby i’ve gone and gotten a little bitter and i refuse, i no longer want to be smitten got so shy from the times that i’ve been bitten try as i might i can never be right or fit in and so my mind’s made up, got to go to...
Triple Filter Test
In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, ‘Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?’ ‘Wait a moment,’ Socrates replied. ‘Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little...
