I went to an traditional church Christmas Pageant this year…
This version would have been much better. ^_^
During my week-long extended birthday celebration last week, honestly, nothing put me more in the “party mood” than this brilliant video advert. Thank you, Japan, for all the joy you bring, and for making me actually want to consume a giant flan-pudding-like gelatin mold… Commercial gold. ^_^
Many thanks to the friends who treated me to such a lovely birthday dinner last night. ^_^
If only we had studied this video, in advance, to properly prepare ourselves!
(It’s like the Japanese version of Look Around You…)
Professor Elemental - Fighting Trousers
‘Firing off the first shot’ in a “chap-hop” battle?
And I thought Pirate-rap was funny… this little niche-genre nerdcore feud is well-nigh hysterical!
How To Write Good
by Frank L. Visco
My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules:
- Avoid alliteration. Always.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
- Employ the vernacular.
- Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
- Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
- It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
- Contractions aren’t necessary.
- Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
- One should never generalize.
- Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
- Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
- Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
- Profanity sucks.
- Be more or less specific.
- Understatement is always best.
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
- One-word sentences? Eliminate.
- Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
- The passive voice is to be avoided.
- Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
- Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
Radioactive wild boars are on the rise in Germany, where they have attacked and frightened residents, even snarling traffic when they gang up on roadways, according to Spiegel International Online and numerous other media reports over the past couple of weeks.
Their radioactivity stems from Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, which happened way back in 1986, but contaminated much of Europe. Apparently the nuclear contamination is still detectable in some animals, including Germany’s wild boars.
The Spiegel report mentions that German government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive wild boar meat have quadrupled since 2007. Last year alone, $555,000 was paid to hunters who found themselves with inedible boar meat, due to its radioactivity. The hunters would have otherwise sold the meat, but it was deemed unfit for human consumption…
