Category Archives: weird

odd book title award

15 Sunday Apr 2007

Posted by in books & writing, humour, media, weird

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Trolley book wins odd title prize

A book titled The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification has been named as the oddest book title of the year.
Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Dagestan came second, with Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence in third place.
Other runners-up include How Green Were the Nazis? and D Di Mascio of Coventry – An Ice Cream Company of Repute, With An Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans.

A selection of past winners:

High Performance Stiffened Structures
Living with Crazy Buttocks
How To Avoid Huge Ships
The Joy of Chickens
Re-using Old Graves
Highlights in the History of Concrete

It’s hard to pick a favourite, isn’t it? 🙂

how fast is your brain?

09 Monday Apr 2007

Posted by in life stuff, miscellany, weird

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brain-cog.jpg Can you read this?

If you can, apparently this means your brain is 50% faster than those who cannot.

if yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe tuo fo 100 anc.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

 

Swiped from alji via this site…

oo-oo-ooo . . .

20 Tuesday Mar 2007

Posted by in health & happiness, life stuff, musings, rants, weird

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. . . I wanna be like you-oo-ooo! f_musicalnote.giff_musicalnote.giff_musicalnote.gif

Have you ever noticed that your online character/personality occasionally attracts people who think this is who you really are and then they make a massive effort to become your ‘friend’ when in fact they are actually wishing they could be like you? Except of course they have no idea who you are.

These people are kinda scary . . . because if you don’t respond in kind you go from being perched on a pedestal you never wanted to be on anyhow to being whatever sort of monster can be fabricated, usually something they are most afraid of that has nothing whatsoever to do with you, in order to justify whatever nastiness they come up with to knock you off said pedestal.

Ah, public life, eh? Next I’ll be shaving my head . . .