No, I'm not talking about 'Funniest Home Videos' - although Grandpa copping one in the Ritz Crackers after choosing an especially bad place to stand while the piñata game is in full swing is indeed comedy gold.
I'm talking about the 43 minutes and 55 seconds of jazz flute infused musical splendour that is Jethro Tull's 1972 progressive rock epic 'Thick as a Brick'.
I'm not even going to try to defend this.
Friday, 23 March 2012
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Oh dear
(C) AJD and Wondersar 2012
If you don't get this joke, I'm sorry. If you do get this joke, I'm really sorry.
Drawn for me by a very talented friend. She has her own blog which showcases her flair for fashion illustration (and which, I hasten to add, is completely untainted by my sense of humour) here.
Saturday, 24 December 2011
The world's least useful phonetic alphabet
Welcome to Random Access Blogging. As a warning in advance, this blog isn't about anything. I'll post things as they occur to me and its sole purpose in life is to amuse me. If it amuses you too, that can't be helped.
As a first post I offer a community service: the world's least useful phonetic alphabet. I got the idea for this while dealing with a call centre dude on the phone. His lack of helpfulness really ticked me off, so when he asked me (for the fourth time) to spell something out, I decided that 'M for mnemonic' was a good place to start - that kept us busy for a while...
Usually there's a silent first letter, but where there isn't, a little creativity is required to make something truly confusing. Homonyms are our friend in this endeavour.
If you have a better idea, let's hear it. I'm not entirely happy with V, but it at least has the merit of being a word that no-one has heard of and which sounds a bit like 'resemblance' .
A - Aisle
B - Bdemium
C - Czar
D - Django
E - Eff
F - For
G - Gnome
H - Honour
I - Isle
J - Jarlsberg
K - Knight
L - Left
M - Mnemonic
N - Night
O - Ouija board
P - Pterodactyl
Q - Queue
R - Rite
S - Say again
T - Tsar
U - Umm
V - Vraisemblance
W - Wright
X - Xenophobe
Y - You
Z - Zsa Zsa
As a first post I offer a community service: the world's least useful phonetic alphabet. I got the idea for this while dealing with a call centre dude on the phone. His lack of helpfulness really ticked me off, so when he asked me (for the fourth time) to spell something out, I decided that 'M for mnemonic' was a good place to start - that kept us busy for a while...
Usually there's a silent first letter, but where there isn't, a little creativity is required to make something truly confusing. Homonyms are our friend in this endeavour.
If you have a better idea, let's hear it. I'm not entirely happy with V, but it at least has the merit of being a word that no-one has heard of and which sounds a bit like 'resemblance' .
A - Aisle
B - Bdemium
C - Czar
D - Django
E - Eff
F - For
G - Gnome
H - Honour
I - Isle
J - Jarlsberg
K - Knight
L - Left
M - Mnemonic
N - Night
O - Ouija board
P - Pterodactyl
Q - Queue
R - Rite
S - Say again
T - Tsar
U - Umm
V - Vraisemblance
W - Wright
X - Xenophobe
Y - You
Z - Zsa Zsa
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