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There's an obituary for D. in the November edition of the Newfoundland Anglican Life, and the editor, who's a friend, engineered it so that there was an advert at the bottom of the same page for a teddy-bear being sold for charity (with a picture of the bear) - she knew I would appreciate it (as would D)!
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BBC Wales: 'Improbable' Tories did not know of rape trial collapse. Not a funny case at all, of course; but the omission of a preposition makes one wonder how one might distinguish between Tories which are probable and those which aren't.
Piglet may scowl at me because this is not a headline. But I thought this gang would enjoy it.
Amazon product description for a headband with flashlight on your forehead: was quite detailed and mentioned lots of situations where it would come in handy. Until this --- Best of all, our lights come with a beam distance of up to
20 meters, so you can see everything in sight.
Piglet may scowl at me because this is not a headline. But I thought this gang would enjoy it.
Amazon product description for a headband with flashlight on your forehead: was quite detailed and mentioned lots of situations where it would come in handy. Until this --- Best of all, our lights come with a beam distance of up to
20 meters, so you can see everything in sight.
How could they come up with such a statement?
Baptist Trainfan - no apostrophe in the Doctors - you'd need one to get your reading.
Can I say that reading things the wrong way is common to those of us accumulating more and more years of life? And you had a choice of 2 places for the apostrophe - doctor's or doctors'.
In a somewhat similar vein, I once purchased a sun shade for my car windshield, which included a claim that it would lower the car temperature by up to 45 degrees (in the U.S. so Fahrenheit). A footnote translated that claim into the rather underwhelming 7 degrees Celsius. It was amusing to imagine the engineering department handing the information off to someone in the marketing department, who realized it needed to include Celsius and then handed it off to an intern who looked it up on the internet: "What is 45 degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?"
But easy to understand how the problem occurred. A thermometer reading 45F will also be reading approx 7C (or used to in the days when you could buy thermometers which read in both, I have a feeling that it may be illegal to sell those reading in Fahrenheit these days).
But easy to understand how the problem occurred. A thermometer reading 45F will also be reading approx 7C (or used to in the days when you could buy thermometers which read in both, I have a feeling that it may be illegal to sell those reading in Fahrenheit these days).
Ah, my opportunity to make a killing on the black market! Fahrenheit thermometers are still the norm in the U.S., so I could ship them to those countries that are way ahead of us when it comes to such things. Maybe 12-inch rulers as well?
I still have plenty of 12" rulers thanks, mostly with a thin strip of photos with scenes from a popular tourist spot. It's probably Mousethief's 40-45 years since thermometers with dual marking were sold here.
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Being a Brit, my natural inclination is to think in Fahrenheit in the summer ("BRITAIN SIZZLES IN THE SEVENTIES!", as a tabloid headline once memorably put it) and in Centigrade in the winter ("it was below zero last night").
Having said that, after 16 years in Canada, I've got used to Centigrade.
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Addendumdum to the flashlight ad : (" Best of all, our lights come with a beam distance of up to 20 meters, so you can see everything in sight. ")
My confusion over this statement is that if you could already see everything within 20 meters, why would you need to turn the flashlight on?
Not uncommon for a victim to live several hours or more after being fatally wounded. In my baby days, I did the required number of criminal trials, one involving a disagreement between a couple of bikie gangs. The deceased was alleged to have said "Big Al and Ralph Rotten got me". I don't know if the jury believed that or relied upon other and much more credible evidence to convict those 2 and acquit the other accused.
I've just received a newsletter from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers with a headline announcing, "Cambridge group says sustainable building material could grow on trees". Any guesses as to what this might be?
A sign seen today outside a local fast-food 'restaurant': "Moped delivery drivers wanted". Presumably they keep needing drivers as, once they've delivered the mopeds, they can't be bothered walking back.
This will be a good headline week in Washington. I was shockedandhorrified to read in the Post that the creepy congressman Jim Jordan appeared at the trump impeachment inquiry, wearing nothing but his shirtsleeves.
This will be a good headline week in Washington. I was shockedandhorrified to read in the Post that the creepy congressman Jim Jordan appeared at the trump impeachment inquiry, wearing nothing but his shirtsleeves.
[...] A sign seen today outside a local fast-food 'restaurant': "Moped delivery drivers wanted". Presumably they keep needing drivers as, once they've delivered the mopeds, they can't be bothered walking back.
And when they had to walk back, they just moped, and so they took pity on them!
In other weird headline news, this intriguing specimen is from the Guardian:
Human hair behind pigeons' lost toes, Paris study finds
There was a post on the BBC news website yesterday saying that the Conservatives want to limit "Overall migration". Quite right too - we can make our own overalls perfectly well, don't need any of these foreign imports.
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well thank goodness I have mine in the freezer already...
Gender-reveal party death
Woman killed in explosion in Iowa
PM to make fresh General Election bid
Brain illness spread by ticks has reached UK.
Pictures of the PM and of the tick have a certain similarity.
There's an obituary for D. in the November edition of the Newfoundland Anglican Life, and the editor, who's a friend, engineered it so that there was an advert at the bottom of the same page for a teddy-bear being sold for charity (with a picture of the bear) - she knew I would appreciate it (as would D)!
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Yes, yes, yes, but have you put your sprouts on yet?
Maybe time for the usual thread in AS though ...
Amazon product description for a headband with flashlight on your forehead: was quite detailed and mentioned lots of situations where it would come in handy. Until this ---
Best of all, our lights come with a beam distance of up to
20 meters, so you can see everything in sight.
How could they come up with such a statement?
Baptist Trainfan - no apostrophe in the Doctors - you'd need one to get your reading.
But I still read it in the wrong way ...
Unless someone who's been here longer than I have thinks differently ...
Ah, my opportunity to make a killing on the black market! Fahrenheit thermometers are still the norm in the U.S., so I could ship them to those countries that are way ahead of us when it comes to such things. Maybe 12-inch rulers as well?
Being a Brit, my natural inclination is to think in Fahrenheit in the summer ("BRITAIN SIZZLES IN THE SEVENTIES!", as a tabloid headline once memorably put it) and in Centigrade in the winter ("it was below zero last night").
Having said that, after 16 years in Canada, I've got used to Centigrade.
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My confusion over this statement is that if you could already see everything within 20 meters, why would you need to turn the flashlight on?
The best part is that the trash pandas were found on the third floor!
Wear flak jacket.
"Statistics show teen pregnancies drop off significantly after 25".
"Homicide victims rarely talk to the police".
"One armed man applauds the kindness of strangers" and, the most bizarre, with its flavour of conspiracy theory,
"Diana was still alive hours before she died".
In green, of course.
Not uncommon for a victim to live several hours or more after being fatally wounded. In my baby days, I did the required number of criminal trials, one involving a disagreement between a couple of bikie gangs. The deceased was alleged to have said "Big Al and Ralph Rotten got me". I don't know if the jury believed that or relied upon other and much more credible evidence to convict those 2 and acquit the other accused.
A sign seen today outside a local fast-food 'restaurant': "Moped delivery drivers wanted". Presumably they keep needing drivers as, once they've delivered the mopeds, they can't be bothered walking back.
One wonders what held them in place.
In other weird headline news, this intriguing specimen is from the Guardian:
Hackney Today is "key" to keeping residents informed
I'm not sure why local news for North London is so vital in Cornwall but maybe there is a clue in the accompanying news story
I like the standing police comment that "Eye-witnesses were on the scene in minutes".
Seems a bit cruel.