Autumn Zebra

Two videos I found quite funny. An Engineer's Guide to Cats , by engineers. Suitable for other non-engineer people as well. (approx. 7 minutes) Something from an Australian TV Program(?) - Who will receive the Trojan horse ? Features real wooden horse. (approx. 2:45 minutes) EDIT! More from the Australians - why you should dress like an American rather than "a crude Arab cliche" if you want to film or take photos of landmarks or nuclear power stations.

There were two fish in a tank . One fish said to the other fish , "How do you drive this thing?" That is all. :D

We got a letter from the council telling us that our hedge was encroaching vegetation, and that encroaching vegetation, in general, can be a danger to pedestrians and motorists. Our hedge wasn't encroaching much. It had blocked some of the pavement in one section, but the pavement is rather narrow there in any case, and there is a metre or two of grass beside the footpath before you get to the road, so I think it was fine. This is our hedge before: And this is what G did to the cable of the hedge trimmer. Luckily, we had an outdoor surge protector thingy, otherwise bad things might have happened. His confidence was shaken initially and he wanted me to finish the hedge ;) but he went and got another cable and then resumed cutting. G did the road side, and I did the house side and most of the top:

So anyways, onto the makings! Here are my 3 materials; first person to spot the joke, nay, pun, gets.... umm, to be really great. From left to right, outer "fashion" layer, strength layer, lining. Here's the lining by itself, because it is cool. Isn't it cute? I wish it was the outside now, but how wearable is it, really? Ha ha, short entry. But it had pictures.

A lot of people aren't going to get some of these.... This totally made me laugh: These could be said about various instruments, just like Irish jokes can be made about any nationality. Why do so many people take an instant dislike to the viola? It saves time. How can you tell when a violist is playing out of tune? The bow is moving. How was the canon invented? Two violists were trying to play the same passage together. Why is a viola solo like a bomb? By the time you hear it, it's too late to do anything about it. Oboe jokes: How do you get an oboist to play A flat? Take the batteries out of his electric tuner. What's the difference between a SCUD missile and a bad oboist? A bad oboist can kill you. Random other ones: There's nothing I like better than the sound of a banjo, unless of course it's the sound of a chicken caught in a vacuum cleaner. What's the least-used sentence in the English language? "Isn't that the banjo player's Porsche?...

When I was looking at some .net programming documentation on the web the other day, I got this message on the page: Ok, that's dumb. ;) The formatting seems to be the same in each "English (United States)" phrase, making it slightly less likely it is due to, say, a dual entry in a database. I'm just glad I got to see it in English (United States), and not, for example, Spanish (Spain), English (Spain) or Spanish (United States), but it is a pity it doesn't seem to display in REAL English, English (Real English). :)