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 » Dr. MacDonald’s Astrological Dream Book

Saturday 20 April 13:01:25 UTC 2024

Read the whole thing here, and see what fate has in store for you!

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Weird Universe » Astronaut Space Suit

Saturday 20 April 8:55:57 UTC 2024

Spacemen – July 1961 [Link]

Futility Closet » Namesakes

Saturday 20 April 7:09:27 UTC 2024

Image: Wikimedia Commons The color fuchsia is named after the flower of that name, which was named after 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. And Fuchs is German for fox. So the color is named after a plant named after a man named after an animal. The color orange is named after the fruit, rather than the other way around. Canaries are … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons