Cat Burglar
I have posted this before but I just love it! My one cat always senses when I am about to move and chooses just that moment to jump onto my lap and nest.
View ArticleBadly designed logos part 2
My regular readers will know I love badly named products and misworded signs. One of my favorite blog posts is this one, on badly designed logos. I have just been alerted to three new ones, which I am...
View ArticleGynaecologists…
Me at 18 (left). Naive? You betcha! I wrote a few weeks ago about embarrassing moments but somehow forgot this one…. I mentioned in the previous article that I was such a country bumpkin that I drank...
View ArticleFunny Cat Story
Grumpy Cat My husband and I were dressed and ready to go out for a lovely evening of dinner and theatre. Having been burgled in the past, we turned on a ‘night light’ and the answering machine, then...
View ArticleLost in Translation
Find the rest in this article (there are some real doozies in there!) – thank you so much Steve!
View ArticleHow Do Court Recorders Keep Straight Faces
These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying...
View ArticleWhen auto-correct is not your friend
Tong would have sounded more appetising wouldn’t it?
View ArticleLost in Translation Part 1
English may be international, but it certainly is not multi-cultural, if these product names are anything to go by! I find this one really funny because it is fish. Nope, not going to explain why!
View ArticleFunny announcements on the London Underground
The following announcements were all heard and reported by visitors on London’s Underground : Heard at Earl’s Court: “The train at platform three is not going to Parsons Green but to Richmond. The...
View ArticlePoorly Named Products
Most of them are due to ‘Lost in Translation’ syndrome. Others didn’t predict how it would sound out loud, or did not keep pace with development of the language. Generally speaking anything with Dick...
View ArticleStupid Signs
In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We takeyour bags and send them in all directions. In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk. In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift...
View ArticleI love doing this!
I hate my feet sticking out of the bed – probably because both my cats when they were kittens used to love pouncing on any toes sticking out from under the blanket. They must look like little twitching...
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