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.”

Weird Universe » Worst Easter Pageant Ever

Sunday 31 March 11:38:00 UTC 2024

Somerset Daily American – Apr 8, 2004 [Link]

Weird Universe » Happy Easter 2024!

Sunday 31 March 10:13:00 UTC 2024

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Futility Closet » Spuds Illustrated

Sunday 31 March 7:03:47 UTC 2024

Image: Wikimedia Commons I just found this visual explication of the potato paradox — if potatoes are 99 percent water by weight, and you start with 100 pounds of potatoes and let them dehydrate until they’re 98 percent water, what’s their new weight? The surprising answer is 50 pounds. Blue boxes represent water, orange non-water. So to double the share of … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons