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 » Tobacco Queen

Sunday 14 April 17:32:21 UTC 2024

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Weird Universe » Crying Artist

Sunday 14 April 10:32:28 UTC 2024

Controversy recently struck the General Theologial Seminary in New York after it invited an artist to perform in the college chapel. Details from Church Times:

The Episcopalian seminary had invited the artist Lia Chavez to perform Water the Earth, in which she intended to sit in the college chapel and weep for five hours, as part of an expression of … [Link]

Futility Closet » Good for the Gander

Sunday 14 April 6:54:32 UTC 2024

In the early days of Dada I received for review a book which contained the following ‘poem’: 'A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.' On which I commented: '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.' I still think … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons