π Humour
π129/366 Siri For MidWesterners π
ππΌ Enjoy. … via Chris Lockhead.
π π Letters ‘by’ Shaun Usher
Funny, worth a click through - unless you donβt think this is funny …
Last weekend, the drive up to London was improved by listening to a Sherlock Holmes audiobook on the car’s CD player. I was amused by my inability to follow the plot as closely as I would have liked, and put this down to middle age. It was only when I arrived at my destination that I realised the CD player was on “shuffle” mode.
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ποΈ Me - in the middle of April - but had been having the problem (an out of control mouse) for a lot longer.
Cracked the issue this morning.
Sidecar.
It seems recently that I have not been closing my iPad, and so my Mac believes that I have a second screen.
Issue resolved.
π122/366 Not dissimilar jobs when you think about it …

π119/366 Not everything on the βBook of Faceβ is bad.
Consider this that was just sent to me (reproduced in full so you donβt have to sully yourself).

β’ An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
β’ A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
β’ A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
β’ An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
β’ Two quotation marks walk into a βbar.β
β’ A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
β’ Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
β’ A question mark walks into a bar?
β’ A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
β’ Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out – we don’t serve your type.”
β’ A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
β’ A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
β’ Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
β’ A synonym strolls into a tavern.
β’ At the end of the day, a clichΓ© walks into a bar – fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
β’ A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
β’ Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
β’ A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
β’ An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
β’ The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
β’ A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
β’ The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
β’ A dyslexic walks into a bra.
β’ A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
β’ A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
β’ A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
β’ A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

π π Letting βMarketingβ have a βseat at the tableβ
Truth in humor from Tom.
On a business call this morning, we took a sidetrack down the path of ‘the problem with flying’. Flanders and Swann were mentioned - and specifically the ‘bit’ they did about excess baggage. I know their stuff - this one didnβt ring a bell.
π Fell on the floor laughing.
Suella Braverman Launches A Small Boat.
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Seriously β watch to the end - A truly well-deserved award.
π΅ The venom of people writing how they hate Waterβs new take on DSOTM is quite extraordinary. Not going to bother engaging with them … but, for the record π I think it is quite brilliant … And the videos allow you to truly let those amazing words sink in.
Jax at the bar, tasting a glass before commitment .. local siddles up asks her if itβs any good, βcos if it is .. me and my mates would like to buy you a bottleβ β¦ βI donβt knowβ she says - turns to me - βwhat do you thinkβ? βUp to youβ I said. She turns back to the local, he was back with his mates π