Whittle It a Little, It’ll Fit

Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”

Futility Closet » Limerick

Friday 8 March 19:04:23 UTC 2024

A performative poet of Hibernia
Rhymed himself into a hernia.
He became quite adept
At this practice, except
For the occasional non-sequitur. — Tom Stoppard [Link]

Weird Universe » RIP Pigcasso

Friday 8 March 16:30:28 UTC 2024

The artist's Wikipedia page.

[Link]

Weird Universe » Flutist visited by Bach

Friday 8 March 11:40:02 UTC 2024

We posted recently about Rosemary Brown who claimed she was visited by the ghosts of famous composers such as Liszt and Beethoven who shared new musical works with her.

The flutist Paula Robison reported a similar experience. She was feeling nervous about her upcoming project to record all of Bach's sonatas for flute and harpsichord, when the ghost of Bach … [Link]

Futility Closet » Maverick

Friday 8 March 7:29:53 UTC 2024

The ancient Chinese philosopher Gongsun Long appeared to claim that a white horse is not a horse: Is ‘a white horse is not horse’ assertible? Advocate: It is. Objector: How? Advocate: ‘Horse’ is that by means of which one names the shape. ‘White’ is that by means of which one names the color. What names the color is not what … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons