E was just an ordinary vowel really. Much like U and I.
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Epitaph for E
Friday, 29 Jan 2021, 23:05
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Playground joke
Friday, 29 Jan 2021, 02:12
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What do you call it when a sheep is stopped for speeding?
A woolly pullover.
Sillygism
Friday, 29 Jan 2021, 01:46
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My vacuum cleaner should suck.
It doesn’t suck.
Therefore, it sucks.
One Liner
Thursday, 28 Jan 2021, 00:18
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Not many people know this but the US has a heavily-guarded facility where enormous quantities of string are stored. It’s called Fort Knots.
Haiku For My Robin
Tuesday, 26 Jan 2021, 03:16
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I let my wild thoughts
Carry me off through time and space
And a robin's sweet song fetch me back.
Tom's short-term memory
Tuesday, 26 Jan 2021, 02:20
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Musical Words
Sunday, 24 Jan 2021, 23:23
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I wrote a program to search for words that contain only the letters abcdefg used as musical notes. I found 124 in the wordlist CROSSWD.TXT (courtesy of Moby Words II by Grady Ward). A bigger wordlist might find more. The 124 words appear below. What's the longest meaningful sentence you can find using only these words? If we can use proper names like 'Abe' we could have
Aged Abe deeded a faded cabbage bed.
aa
aba
abaca
abbe
abed
accede
acceded
ace
aced
ad
adage
add
added
ae
aff
aga
age
aged
agee
ba
baa
baaed
baba
babe
bacca
baccae
bad
bade
badge
badged
baff
baffed
bag
baggage
bagged
be
bead
beaded
bed
bedded
bee
beebee
beef
beefed
beg
begged
cab
cabbage
cabbaged
cad
cade
cadge
cadged
caeca
cafe
cage
caged
ceca
cede
ceded
cee
da
dab
dabbed
dace
dad
dada
daff
daffed
dag
de
dead
deaf
deb
decade
dee
deed
deeded
deface
defaced
degage
ebb
ebbed
edge
edged
ef
eff
efface
effaced
egad
egg
egged
fa
facade
face
faced
fad
fade
faded
fadge
fadged
fag
fagged
fed
fee
feed
feedbag
gab
gabbed
gad
gadded
gae
gaed
gaff
gaffe
gaffed
gag
gaga
gage
gaged
gagged
ged
gee
geed
Dad Joke
Saturday, 23 Jan 2021, 21:26
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Q. What do call a race between sea snails? A. The limpet games.
Frozen Bubbles
Saturday, 23 Jan 2021, 01:24
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Until yesterday I had no idea that you can freeze soap bubbles. But you can.
Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frostedbubble2.jpg
Also check out https://www.ignant.com/2015/01/26/frozen-in-a-bubble-by-angela-kelly/
every morning is new
Friday, 22 Jan 2021, 03:08
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Just a Thought
Friday, 22 Jan 2021, 01:11
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There's a place in Co. Roscommon, Eire, called Scregg.
So I guess if a bunch of people from that town wandered about a bit, they'd be ambling screggs.
Philosophy In Daily Life
Thursday, 21 Jan 2021, 01:51
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Dear Laundry
Please submit your bill as soon as convenient.
Nietzsche
P.S. Have you read my latest article, There are no facts, only interpretations?
Dear Nietzsce
Your bill is as follows
Shirts 3 marks
Other items 2 marks
Total 5 marks
The Laundry
P.S. Very impressed by your article. We have reinterpreted your bill, which now stands at 500 marks.
Haiku
Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021, 01:52
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Birds may seem free
For people it’s a delicate
Balancing act.
🥨🥨🥨
Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021, 00:52
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Pretzels.
Are they a kind of doughknot?
Haiku
Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021, 00:32
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Birds don’t worry
I’ve bought you a new
Table
One Liner
Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021, 22:19
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I'm definitely against torture. Especially of me.
Six Daffynitions
Monday, 18 Jan 2021, 00:01
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Bagel: Small breed of dog
Ciabatta: Did you negotiate a price?
Chapati: Did you celebrate?
Farmhouse: A celeb
Sourdough: This money belongs to us
Tin: Comes after naan
Tensegrity
Sunday, 17 Jan 2021, 19:42
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I watched a YouTube video by Steve Mould, in which he explained and demonstrated a type of structure called tensegrity. This was completely new to me and I found it fascinating. For example, here is a plant stand you can buy on Amazon
At first sight this seems impossible; how can the top magically levitate? Steve Mould explained it by starting with a 2-D version, something like this.
The black bars are rods and the red lines are wires. If you try to push the top down, the wire EF will be stretched and will pull the top part back up. If you try to push the top to the right, the wire AC will be stretched and will pull the top back into position. Similarly, if you try to push the top to the left, the wire BD will be stretched and will pull the top back into position.
The 3-D version in the plant stand follows the same principles. Although it has four radial wires it's still possible to build such structure with only three wires altogether and you can even buy a Lego-compatible version of this design.
My Introduction to Orzo
Sunday, 17 Jan 2021, 00:26
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I’ve just had some orzo, which for those who don’t know (I didn’t until this week) is a kind of tiny pasta shaped like grains of barley, which is what the word means in Italian.
I was curious about the origins of the word. It turns out it is from Latin hordeum and this from a root that means “bristly”, which an ear of barley famously is. The same root gives horrible, which originally meant “bristling”, urchin, and gorse.
Back to barley. This is from the same root as Latin farina “flour”, which is also the origin of farrago, a jumble of different grains all mixed together for animal feed. Also from barley we get “barn”, a grain store. It’s also found in place names such as Barton and Barley.
Heckler Joke
Saturday, 16 Jan 2021, 01:52
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It is said a lecturer once told an audience “A double negative makes a positive. ‘I ain’t got nothing’ would mean the speaker has got something. But a double positive can never make a negative.”
From the rear of the room someone called out, “Yeh yeh”.
On meeting a stranger
Friday, 15 Jan 2021, 02:42
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The stranger said “I am
From the same planet as you, and yet not the same planet.”
I found her words oddly comforting.
Heckler joke
Friday, 15 Jan 2021, 02:05
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The speaker said, “Making an audience laugh is a cheap trick. Anyone can do it.”
From the floor a heckler cried, “Go orn. Do it then!”
Very short liner
Friday, 15 Jan 2021, 01:48
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Piranhas. They’re fishes.
Dad Joke
Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021, 21:40
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I'm trying to teach my bloodhound to play football. But all he can do is dribble.
Dad Joke
Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021, 02:36
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Tonight I found a website dedicated to jokes about mining. Many were ore-full and some touched rock-bottom.
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