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1. 10 days ago on In the Sticks

   That must be why he doesn’t know the difference between “everyday” and “every day”.

2. 11 days ago on The Elderberries

   This reminds me of a famous incident (and probably, like most famous incidents, an apocryphal one too) that involved the Russians, the Americans and quite possibly the beginnings of détente.

   The received story is that the CIA set up a computer to enable them to quickly and automatically translate to and from Russian. Searching for a suitable phrase to test the machine they came up with “Out of sight out of mind” (that, to digress, surely says a lot about the shortcomings of the CIA). They fed this into the computer which duly spat out some Russian (exactly what that was isn’t recorded, which surely says a lot about the shortcomings of language instruction in the English Speaking world) which they then fed back in. Out came the perfectly well-formed English phrase “Invisible imbecile”.http://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_more.php?sid=14

3. 17 days ago on Pooch Cafe

   Who ws it said “If my dog had a face like yours I’d shave his ass and teach him to walk backwards.”?

4. about 1 month ago on Bad Machinery

   I take it that Zardog is Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling’s dog??

5. about 1 month ago on W.T. Duck

   I should hope so! I don’t seem to be able to part with mine: I even have my first serious (well serious-ish) Nikkormat bought around 1970!My wife calls me a hoarder, no idea why…..

6. about 1 month ago on W.T. Duck

   I’m not that weird. I have a ground glass WITHOUT grid lines!! :-)

7. about 1 month ago on W.T. Duck

   TTV. I’ve done a lot of that with my old sinar!

8. about 2 months ago on Joe Heller

   That nice Mr Abbott having just FORBIDDEN us to wear masks, it’s time for all TRUE TEXANS to prove they are RED-BLOODED FREEDOM-LOVING TEXANS by wearing a mask ALL THE TIME.I know they’ll get my mask when they TEAR OUT THE STAPLES FIXING IT MY COLD DEAD FACE!

9. about 2 months ago on The Knight Life

   Back in the C18 the great Dr Johnson reported, as a ludicrous saying, about the runaway success of the Beggar’s Opera (written by John Gay and somewhat reluctantly produced by John Rich) that “It made Gay rich and Rich gay”.That sounds so much racier now-a-days!

10. about 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

    According to Wiktionary (I’m feeling lazy and it’s easy)HedEtymology 1Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.Noun

    hed (plural heds)

    (journalism, slang) The headline of a news story.Archaic spelling of head.