Amusing Items

[RobH1]

What's the cure for water on the brain?

Spoiler

A tap on the head.

Jeez, that's as old as me!

 

[Black Hole]

"Admissions" isn't much better.

We pay for admission to somewhere. In the old days, there would be a sign reading "Admission £1" (or whatever. I don't have any problem with that.

 

[prpr]

Jeez, that's as old as me!

Well Orac liked it when Vila told him/it. "More Vila, more".

 

[mumble_myopia]

Why would you want to cast flowers?
(Yes, I'm reasonably sure it was a deliberate play on words. )

It was

 

[mumble_myopia]

If you'd seen an interview this morning on Good Morning Britain with a young Australian woman who lost part of an arm and leg to a shark attack you might not find that so amusing. Particularly as she made the decision to give up her left arm, because she is right handed, in a successful bid to fight off the shark.

wow! that is clear thinking in a more than slightly dodgy situation

 

[prpr]

<bad taste>
Esther Rantzen isn't going to have a funeral. They're going to turn her straight into...

Sausages.

</bad taste>

 

[EEPhil]

Esther Rantzen isn't going to have a funeral.

Certainly getting wall-to-wall coverage. Trying to watch the news hour on ITV - ER, switch to BBC -ER, Sky News - ER. Off switch and check this site and sausages. Argh!

 

[prpr]

It amuses me that folks are still trying to sell stuff like this:

ADSL Signal Filter | Toolstation

An adaptor converting a BT4311A plug to an RJ11 socket and BT4311A socket. For filtering combined broadband and telephone signals.

www.toolstation.com

 

[EEPhil]

I hate the modern world. I'd be very happy to go back about 20 years, the future looked much brighter then.

A little further back and "The future's bright, the future's Orange" (A reference to a mobile phone provider, for those too young to remember).
Yeah, we got an orange future and it ain't so bright -Trump!