No Octopus or other octopus were harmed in creating this hat.

Octopuses? Octopi? Hexadeca-puses?


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Woo hoo!  Morning sessions were canceled*, and I came to work with sand between my toes ( Read more... )

There are formal rules of logic, which most people sort of know in a hand-flailing way, but can’t articulate clearly. This book lists 25 fallacies of logic, illustrating each one with a joke whose punch line depends on reversing the logical rule. The book ends with a chapter on critical thinking and objective truth, which is also illustrated with ( Read more... )

I googled "Future of Storytelling" to find my course...
There are an awful lot of futures out there.

Someone better polish up the crystal ball to see the real future.

This is the course I'm taking.
https://iversity.org/courses/the-future-of-storytelling

I accidentally made the history professor very happy...

I walked into the classroom and said “Hi, I’m the writing tutor. If you want to get a better grade, you’ll have to hand in a paper which is well organized and grammatically correct.”

Professor nods vigorously. I wonder how many badly written papers he’s marked.

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 Sister the Nurse:  Oh, no, she's got a choking hazard in her hand!
Pre-verbal Neice:  *gives the evil eye*
Translation:  It may be a choking hazard to you, but to ME it is a chocolate coated peanut lightly coated in carpet fuzz, and I'm NOT GIVING IT UP.

I have the Noun Disease - and IT IS CONTAGIOUS.  I bet you didn't know brains could send obfuscation signals to each other ( Read more... )

Six year old boys generate really weird conversations, but they know the value of a dollar.
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If a tree falls on the internet, and I don't hear about it until a few years later, is it still news?

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002101.html
has a few ZITS comic strips about male/female talking, and other comics too.  Then it thinks most thinkily about them.  Fun.

I am on a book-based mailing list.  The problem with this is people really, really like to play with words.
Why is this a problem?

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