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Wednesday 15 March 2017 at 23:13
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One Liner
Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 23:40
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Our local handyman has no idea how to stick things together. He's utterly glueless.
One Liner
Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 21:30
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Edited by Richard Walker, Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 21:37
Gran always wore the traditional shawl, apron, and stovepipe hat. Her emotionless wooden face was typical of a Welsh dresser.
One Liner
Monday 13 March 2017 at 23:48
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Edited by Richard Walker, Monday 13 March 2017 at 23:48
On the day of the grammar exam, I knew I'd be asked about the Past, Present and Future. I felt all tensed up.
Info
Monday 13 March 2017 at 21:57
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Makeover
Monday 13 March 2017 at 00:09
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This week we have to give the cave a real tidy up, so the painters can get in.
Have you seen the mammoth pictures these guys do? It's just awesome.
Training Rabbits
Sunday 12 March 2017 at 22:44
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Edited by Richard Walker, Monday 13 March 2017 at 00:10
I like to train my rabbits in the good old-fashioned way my dad taught me.
Nothing beats the carrot and the celery stick.
News from Crinkly Cove
Sunday 12 March 2017 at 21:49
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In our little seaside town we have an annual Teddy Bear race ('Ready Teddy, Go!").
It generates intense competition. There are two rival camps: one lives up the hill above the town, the other near the beach.
Every year we hold our breath. Where will the winner be from?
Last time it was a very close run thing, won by a Shore Ted.
The Persistence of Walls
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 21:37
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Someone has to stare at the wall. Otherwise, where would the wall be?
Government
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 01:45
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There's an office for budget responsibility. Seems tough to pick on these little birds.
Imagined
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 01:39
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It's so lovely to be a mathematician
And find
i am the square root of minus one.
One Liner
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 00:08
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Corporal punishment. Now there's a wacky idea.
Anagrammisticas Awake!
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 00:03
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It's long been known by stavrolexicophiles that "Schoolmaster" is an anagram of "The classroom".
But only today did I discover (when solving today's stavrolexi) that "The coach's role" is an anagram of "Schoolteacher".
A Mondegreen Collected in the Wild
Tuesday 7 March 2017 at 23:49
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"I've got a coleslaw on my lip."
This is a perfectly reasonable thing for a person to hear. It's the name of something. Unless you know coleslaw is the name of a different thing why would you question it? It's really close in spirit to the Lady Mondegreen.
One Liner
Monday 6 March 2017 at 00:42
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I was warned not lose my head. But I laughed it off.
One Liner
Sunday 5 March 2017 at 23:31
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One of our salesmen went to negotiate a contract in the Baltics. He made a mistake over the price, but it couldn't be altered, because it was set in Estonia.
One Liner
Sunday 5 March 2017 at 23:26
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At school all the bigger boys picked on me. I begged and begged mum and dad to get me a bully-proof vest.
The Opposite Birds
Sunday 5 March 2017 at 15:57
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Edited by Richard Walker, Sunday 5 March 2017 at 16:25
I've being reading in the New Scientist about the (rather romantically named) Opposite Birds. These evolved from dinosaurs at about the same time as the ancestors of modern birds and coexisted with them for millions of years. They had feathers and must have been good fliers.
Then came the mass extinction of 65 mya. Of all the dinosaurs only modern birds survived. You might have thought that being so similar the Opposite Birds would have lived on too. Mysteriously they didn't and it's quite hard to understand why.
Here's a rather nice reconstruction of an opposite bird. If you look closely you'll see it has teeth.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanweiniao_cooperorum.jpg
The First and the Last
Saturday 4 March 2017 at 01:26
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In this sentence the last word is first.
A Meeting of Opposites
Friday 3 March 2017 at 23:51
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Auntie Florence was so cold and distant. We kids nicknamed her "Ice Flo".
She was married to a giant of a man known as "Titan Nick".
How those two ever got together I just don't know.
At Least I Tried (to Get Fit)
Friday 3 March 2017 at 00:26
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My breath grew short. My eyes grew dim.
I'm not a natural in the gym.
Gimme a Clue
Friday 3 March 2017 at 00:16
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Sometimes an answer just leaps out at you.
For example, I couldn't solve this anagram
"No slam"
Then someone said it was a fish.
For example, I couldn't solve this anagram
"No slam"
Then someone said it was a fish.
A Childhood Window
Thursday 2 March 2017 at 01:17
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I loved my country bedroom window.
Wet trickling fingers in spring
Late summer's corn dust and the harvest haze
All the spiderwebs of autumn
And then in winter my fingers tracing the frost flowers.
It was complete.
New blog post
Wednesday 1 March 2017 at 01:56
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In films it's always raining when
A man and a woman:
Both in black.
Meet again after many years.
Under umbrellas:
By a grave.
They had parted not knowing
That time always has
The final word.
Egg Cuisine
Monday 27 February 2017 at 22:15
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Omelette = Failed attempt at frying egg.
Scrambled egg = Failed omelette.
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