Sign of the day

"Warning street cleansing in progress"

Is "cleansing" better than "cleaning"?

Sign Language

Sent in by Gus

Truck of the Day

PRIOR PRODUCTS LIMITED

Do they send them before you order them?

Have the products changed into something else?

You know you are in trouble when..

..even your lifebelt needs help.

The right man for the job?

Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals

Roger Boyes, Berlin Correspondent of The Times

BA BA Blacklegs

With lyrics

Up close and personal?

I know about lapdancers , but laptopers?


"Laptopers in an educational practice: Promoting the personal learning situation
Tomas Lindroth , Magnus Bergquist Computers & Education 54 (2010) 311–320

Media News

I bought the Guardian yesterday for £1. No press interset at all. Is it becos I isn't Russian?

Don't get too excited but...

First International Conference on Yawning

Première Conférence Internationale sur le Bâillement



2010, june 24 & 25

Paris

Hôpital de La Salpêtrière

Amphitéâtre JM. Charcot

(sent in by Fred)

Do not send this to anybody

Nestle

Send them this instead

Have a break

I wouldn't be seen dead in it anyway

Thanks to John O'D for this

Too busy to read books?

Well here is Pride and Prejudice in emoticons:


From Rebecca (No, not that one)

Meanwhile in MK....

.. cryogenics seems to have moved on to pets.

It's the dog's bottom!

(Sent in by Karen)

Disambiguation

For you young ones, Jack Brabaham (see below) was a world champion racing driver in the sixties

But there is always one....

Bend it like Brabham?

Do not try to park round this lamp post.

The nights are drawing in

Apparently the Chilean earthquake has moved the earth's axis by 8cm thus shortening the day about1.26 microseconds

Steven Fry I ain't ..

.. but just received the 1,000th visitor to my Blog!

There has been an average of 5 per day since I set the meter running. That probably means 4 visits from me plus a Bot, but Hey! - one day.

Yesterday the Ring Road was blocked by flooding. Today?

How stupid can you get?

A study by Imperva shows the 10 most common user passwords are:

1) 123456
2) 12345
3) 123456789
4) Password
5) iloveyou
6) princess
7) rockyou
8) 1234567
9) 12345678
10) abc123

Collectively these ten account for 2% of all passwords.

Way to go!

How do you like them apples?

Truck of the Day

"WALKING FLOORS"

Doesn't sound like a niche market.

Diversity Training in HE

Watch and learn

More wales of anguish

John tells me that Luxembourg is only one eighth of a Wales

So what ? They could have said the iceberg was the size of Clwyd!

Is this the tip of the iceberg?

In a dangerous move the BBC has announced that the iceberg that has boken off the Southern ice cap is the size of Luxembourg.

Don't they know that Wales is the Standadrd Internation Unit for such occurences?

Where can I find a conversion table?

Truck of the Day

Can't remember the firm but it just said "TRANSPORT" - no "LOGISTICS" no "SUPPLY CHAIN, no "SOLUTIONS", no "NUFFINK".

HOORAY!

Retaliation?

I thought we might retaliate by stealing the Leeds University logo (see last item)but it seems to just be an off-centre salt cellar.

A hint of competition?

Plus brand stealing!
Read more at The Really Open University website

Over the Moon

Wasn't it lovely to see Mr Bean meeting the Queen?

Killer headline

My quest for the perfect tabloid headline continues. This from the Sun on Jan 19 comes close I feel:

COKE SHAME QUEEN WAR HERO JAILED


There are no redundant words but I think it was let down by the use of JAILED rather than CAGED

Happy New Year from Southern Spain

How to have fun with a dictionary!