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Going back in time

I have just completed possibly the finest and most beautiful game I have ever played on a PC. The game is enormous and seems to last forever. The looks are stunning with small shrubs gently swaying in the breeze and birds of paradise gliding overhead in a unnaturally
(for a computer anyway) natural way. Even the enemy are intelligent as they determine your location and come at you from all angles using
all manner of high-tech weapons.

The game is FarCry an I urge everyone with a monstrous PC and an internal DVD drive to play it.

After such an epic, I returned to reality and remembered I hadn't long ago had a birthday and there was this little yellow book I got with a very sepia styled front. The name was Shite's Unoriginal Miscellany. Sounded cheeky so I thought I'd have a flick through.

I have to say that never have I enjoyed a book so much as this. It's not even a book for the lads. It's a book for anyone and I guarantee it will make even the most serious of you laugh at it's pointlessness.

Stuff that makes you wonder, why?

Some questions that should be answered:
  • What if they were no hypothetical questions?
  • Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
  • If Barbie is so poular, why do we have to buy her friends?
  • How deep would the ocean be without sponges?
  • Why does Christmas come when the shops are so busy?
  • Is French kissing just kissing in France?
  • What was the best thing before sliced bread?
Abandoned trade names for instant mashed potato:
  • Spudget
  • Bombardier (= pomme de terre)
  • Powder Potty (USA)
  • Pol Pot-8-Eau (Kampuchea, 1976-9)
  • Drypot
  • Pot-'n'-Tate
  • Wundaspud
  • Pomme-POM! (France)
  • Instamashic
  • 'I find it difficult to believe that this is not real mashed potato' (Unlanched)
  • Mash-een (Eire)
Exciting Countries:
  • Canada
  • Finland
  • England
  • USA
  • Belgium
  • The Low Countries
  • New Zealand

Seriously important things to know:

Ways to end a romance:
  • Send a 'Dear John' letter to yourself
  • Have a sex change operation
  • Put on three stone (female)
  • Refuse to believe he isn't gay
  • Become a prostitute
  • Write yourself a letter from the local STD unit requesting a test
  • Send your partners photo to an S&M dating service
Cumulative effects of alcohol on the system: milligrams of alcohol to millilitres of blood
  • 20mg/100ml: Feeling of slight wooziness; not unpleasant
  • 40mg/100ml: Could drive dangerously if too fast
  • 60mg/100ml: Driving would now be wreckless
  • 80mg/100ml: Coordination may have disappeared; reckless driving at any speed
  • 80mg/100ml: (drink drive limit - crazy isn't it)
  • 100mg/100ml: Loss of sexual control; may knock over drinks (even your own)
  • 160mg/100ml: May become aggressive; may not remember later what you did under the influence
  • 300mg/100ml: Could be spontaneously incontinent and/or slip into a coma
  • 500mg/100ml: Could die without medical attention
If this is your thing, then it's ISBN 1-84317-064-7 (no amazon links here, pick your own retailer). Shouldn't cost more than a tenner and may even win you that pub quiz, impress your mates in front of that girl/guy you fancy or even save your life...

That's me for today. I'm off to locate a nearby chiropracter to sort my lower back out. I might have overdone it in the gym recently and it's giving me real grief. Later...

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