Economics (of) humour

Price: £2.25

:)

I was on at least my fourth Sony Ericsson phone before I noticed that the default text settings start again in lower-case after a colon.

Can I assume that American handsets do differently?

It's National Book Week

... and - as far as Facebook is concerned, anyway - the rules of the game are as follows:

1) Pick up the book closest to you.
2) Turn to page 56.
3) Copy the fifth sentence as your status (without mentioning the book [which raises some context-based questions about the whole point of NBW, surely?] and also appending the above rules).

A dilemma. Page 56 of the book I am currently reading (The Summer Without Men, by Siri Hustvedt) begins with 'Boris wrote back:' followed by a lengthy - and indented - quotation.

Under normal circumstances, of course, I would not consider a colon an impediment to the accurate enumeration of whole sentences. But here, somehow, it seems to upset the applecart.

Worse still, if I count the colon-ised pre-sentence, the fifth (full) sentence on that page comes out as 'There was no love to my love' - and I ain't having that.

If I don't, it is, simply, 'Boris.'

Solutions sought.

Mate's gf on Geoff Boycott

Who is this fucking moron Yorkshire twat?!

InDefinition - 27

queens' Singlish, n. lingua franca of Colombo chat-shows

Curiouser

The magic of authority, money, penises.

- Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men

(Still, one-and-a-half out of three ain't bad.)

Snodland

Anyone know why?

Not porn (alas)

Earn Fist Million Quickly
futuremillionaire.ijts.org
How nice if some one can earn the first million before the age of 22 starting from the beginning. Read many stories about such youth.

How nice indeed. Ijts.

[With thanks to Googleads.]

C'est ma vie

This morning I got myself out of a French accent error... with another French accent error. (It was a grave one.)

Nobel-winner can't punctuate for shit

It came from nowhere like the river, and like the river it would not be denied.

- William Golding, The Inheritors

Change ‘Holloway Road’ of North London to ‘Chuck Norris Road’

And other public petitions rightly rejected by 10 Downing St.

Also seen, last afternoon

AMBULANCE - patient transport service

Well... yes.

Seen, on a pub toilet wall

It hurts because you love her, no that's gonorreagh

For the record, gonorreagh [sic.] is not a town near Belfast. I checked.

The Facebook comment I SO wanted to Like

Surely "Pak 'n Save" should be "Pa'k 'n' Save"? Or do they do that so they can pass the savings from the two dropped apostrophes onto we canny consumers?

[With thanks to AH, who didn't give his permission for this in any way.]

Gardeners - question time

It would be an anomaly to find a student of nature addicted to the vices that cast so many dark shadows on our social life; nor do I remember among the sad annals of criminal history, one instance of a naturalist who became a criminal, or of a single gardener who has ever been hanged.

- Shirley 'a man' Hibberd, Rustic Adornments

To which I can only think to ask: 'What about Fred West?'