... take a look at today's:

Strunk and White

(and make sure you mouse over the cartoon to get the meta-comment...)  ;-)

It must be my week for sharing silly things from YouTube.

If you can get to the end of this without a smile on your face, I will pay you five pounds...

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This fabulous video on YouTube which the Resident Geek pointed me to: (link in case embed doesn't work for you:)

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"My mama told me I should never venture into space
But I did, I did, I did..."

Fabulous fanvid by Charmax76 to Ewan MacColl's Space Girl. How many of the series/individual episodes can you identify?  (altariel , I'm looking at you...)

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Yet again the wondrous xkcd nails my domestic life...

This from today's Financial Times courtesy of mrazalais , who as usual is dedicated to sending me silly things to read when I should be working:

Mine rescue

"Jubilant scenes on Wednesday as the rescue of 57 Liberal Democrats stuck underground for decades finally got under way. The first few have already been brought up to the ( Read more... )

I thought this election campaign was just ridiculous:  no no noooo, it's several miles beyond the Ridiculousness Horizon and accelerating...

(and yes, that story was posted today and no, it is not April the 1st.)

Second Small Person, counting out imaginary money:

"I've got one pound, two pounds, three pounds, ONE TRILLION POUNDS!"

There we are, deficit sorted - quick, someone ring the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a child of three could solve our economic problems in one fell swoop.

Proof that I really needed coffee this morning (though to be fair I was also dealing with two small people's incessant demands for breakfast and a tea-deprived husband at the time): it totally failed to occur to me that the Radio 4 Today programme story about a locket being found by an archaeological dig at Shakespeare's birthplace, which allegedly ( Read more... )

Not sure whether this is due to a recent conversation with green_maia about the end of S3 of Who, particularly the Tinkerbell element; but today's xkcd, bizarrely, made me think "Gallifrey!"...

... no, it's me, isn't it? I need coffee...

While I was wrangling Second Small Person into his warmest pyjamas, which happen to be Bob the Builder ones:

Me: [singing]  "Bob the Builder..."

SSP: "Can We Fix It?"

Me: "Bob the Builder..."

SSP: "NO WE CAN'T!!!"

Resident Geek wonders why I am lying on floor helpless with laughter instead of getting SSP into bed...