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 » Humanised Trufood

Saturday 6 April 11:49:00 UTC 2024

Make sure your food has been humanised…

Daily Telegraph – Jan 28, 1937

Post-Graduate Medical Journal – June 1935 [Link]

Weird Universe » Purple Earthquake

Saturday 6 April 9:59:00 UTC 2024

Their Wikipedia page.

[Link]

Futility Closet » Insight

Saturday 6 April 7:01:35 UTC 2024

“Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.” — La Rochefoucauld “After investigating a problem in all directions, happy ideas come unexpectedly, without effort, like an inspiration. So far as I am concerned, they have never come to me when my mind was fatigued, or when I was at my working table. … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons