Random things
Dec. 24th, 2007 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyThe local newspaper has a bee in its bonnet over the City by the Sea's nickname of "Windy Warrnambool", saying that the name is completely untrue and that the paper has the research to prove it. Unfortunately, it chose to publish this story (on the front page, no less) on the same day as the strongest summer gale in many a year hit town.
The complete text of an advertisement for insurance in today's paper: "You'd be puffin muffins to buy insurance any other way." What?
I got the second-last trolley in the supermarket this morning.
When I was waiting at the checkout, the woman in front of me finally got some space to put her goods on the counter. She said to her toddler daughter, who was sitting in the trolley, "Can you pass something up to Mummy, please?". The little girl carefully put down the jar of pasta sauce she was holding, then took off her shoe and passed that to her mother.
I've been reading an omnibus collection of Agatha Christie novels, including a story in which the whole world (in 1927) is threatened with takeover by a group comprising: a Chinese political mastermind, an American millionaire, a French scientist and (my favourite) an obscure but talented English actor. The novel doesn't go into how this group got together in the first place, but I like to think it was in the user forum at diabolicalplans.com.
Over the past few weeks, the weekly World Wide Words newsletter (do read it, it's brilliant) has been discussing intriguing book titles, so as a festive treat here are some of the ones that grabbed my attention:
- Baking With Kids
- Cooking With Pooh (a Disney cookbook)
- How To Hold Up A Bank (a book on soil engineering)
- Everything You'll Need to Remember About Alzheimer's
- Letting It Go: a History of American Incontinence
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
The complete text of an advertisement for insurance in today's paper: "You'd be puffin muffins to buy insurance any other way." What?
I got the second-last trolley in the supermarket this morning.
When I was waiting at the checkout, the woman in front of me finally got some space to put her goods on the counter. She said to her toddler daughter, who was sitting in the trolley, "Can you pass something up to Mummy, please?". The little girl carefully put down the jar of pasta sauce she was holding, then took off her shoe and passed that to her mother.
I've been reading an omnibus collection of Agatha Christie novels, including a story in which the whole world (in 1927) is threatened with takeover by a group comprising: a Chinese political mastermind, an American millionaire, a French scientist and (my favourite) an obscure but talented English actor. The novel doesn't go into how this group got together in the first place, but I like to think it was in the user forum at diabolicalplans.com.
Over the past few weeks, the weekly World Wide Words newsletter (do read it, it's brilliant) has been discussing intriguing book titles, so as a festive treat here are some of the ones that grabbed my attention:
- Baking With Kids
- Cooking With Pooh (a Disney cookbook)
- How To Hold Up A Bank (a book on soil engineering)
- Everything You'll Need to Remember About Alzheimer's
- Letting It Go: a History of American Incontinence
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification