Postprandial Math Joke
Q: Why do mathematicians, after a dinner at a Chinese restaurant, always insist on taking the leftovers home?
Humor
Getting the Idiom Wrong, And More
In an email from a friend, I received the following list of butchered idioms, historical references, names, and sayings (sometimes the correct word, name or …
Measurement Humor
I received this in an email from a parent of a student I have tutored: New IEEE standard values: Non-Conventional Units of Conversion Ratio of …
Ingenious Spam Bots
Two items in my recent collection of blog spam: I inclination not acquiesce in on it. I think nice post. Particularly the designation attracted me …
A Speech, In German, by Mark Twain
In an “ADDRESS TO THE VIENNA PRESS CLUB, NOVEMBER 21, 1897, DELIVERED IN GERMAN [Here in literal translation],” an address entitled “DIE SCHRECKEN DER DEUTSCHEN …
Oh, no!! The FBI is on to me!!
In an email from ROBERT SWAN MUELLER III, FBI DIRECTOR, but, mysteriously enough, with this heading information: From: jrantonio@scu.edu Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF …
Cat Humor
Simon’s Cat in “Fly Guy:” a funny 2 minute, 23 second, animated video. Love it. HT: Anne on Facebook.