From this page on Bovine Linguistics:
The Wisconsin-Holstein dialect appeared to have almost no grammar whatsoever. The article indicating negation (x’) is prepended to the word to be negated, and only negates that word. The verb rheh (to eat) is never used in context with meruuu (grass) - instead the words muum, xemmo, and hruunuuu are […]
From The Age:
Other contestants have appeared traumatised by their confinement, judging by their wildly erratic behaviour. One South African man began secretly burying spoons in the garden. A female contestant in the UK became obsessed with stockpiling dead batteries.
Just wrong, I tell you.
Must you crap on my adolescence? Can’t you invent something new?
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend… if you have one.”
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second…if there is one.”
Winston Churchill, in response
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From the Wikipedia:
Dexter was the class valedictorian at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, CA and was a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biology from the University of Southern California, however he declined to get his Ph.D. in favor of focusing on The Offspring. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Master’s degree in […]
Monday, February 26, 2007
I find this fascinating - stock photos tagged as “Business Intelligence”. Somehow these people in white suits represent “Business Intelligence” in the stories we tell ourselves; they do it well enough that people looking for BI pictures will buy the ones in this category. Is this what a businessman looks like? Is this what a […]