Friday, August 28, 2009

Various Laws, etc...

If you don't know these, you should.

Clarke's Second Law
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible



Baker's Law
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.



Axiom of the Pipe (Trischmann's Paradox)
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.


And my favorite:

Clarke's Third Law
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


Link to the rest.

And this one from Robert Heinlein. As we look at our Brave New World of ObamieCare we need to consider......................

TANSTAAFL
There aint no such thing as a free lunch.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

I would have been posting more but I have been torn

between a fake homily to Teddy and asking the following.

What do you think Teddy said to Mary Joe on his way by?

"I thought you could swim better than that."

"I should have let you drive."

"Sorry about that."

"Ooops!"

Some punnies

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .

3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.'

14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then, it hit me.

15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said, 'Keep off the Grass.'

16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'

17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

18. It's not that the woman did not know how to juggle, she just didn't have the balls to do it.

19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

20. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

21. A backward poet writes inverse.

22. In democracy, it's your vote that counts. In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

24. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!


Hat tip to Don H.

Monday, August 24, 2009

So Obama wants to worry about waterboarding..

I think these guys would have been happy to have been waterboarded...



Hat Tip to Jim M.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Gordon Brown and Obama and terrorists

Thanks Mum!



We'll try and return the favor sometimes!

Between Obamie, US judges and British politicians the Muslim terrorists don't need arms.

You know, I can't figure out which one of the above pair looks the scariest.

Oh...wait....I think we have a new winner.

Aint it the truth...


The woman applying for a job in a Florida lemon grove seemed to be far too qualified for the job.

The foreman frowned and said, “I have to ask you this; “Have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?”

“Well, as a matter of fact, I have!” she replied. “I’ve been divorced three times, owned 2 Plymouth’s, and I voted for Obama


Stolen from Mostly Cajun and Opionated