Look at how relaxed a tomato is in its natural environment. A human does exactly what a tomato does but the tomato is in bliss because it does not need to make things up.
Sep 112009
Jul 082009
Jun 102009
Every now and again the daily chore of deleting the stuff is enlivened.
This wins the Hook Prize for subject line:
Open it or get constipation.
And here’s a pseudonym Thurber could have used:
Elvera Fulp.
Perhaps we could strike back.
Now that I’m off life-support, I’m writing to thank you for the green pills.
OK it works, but now my cock gets caught in my shoelaces.
Dr Gillard, not content with his Belloc quotation, has come up with this quatrain (see his comments on our previous post).
Writing verse using words of two letters
Is a thing that?s not done by my betters.
But I must here have something to show -
So it is up to me to do so.
Nine two letter words! The Wordability judges deliberated long past their bedtimes: was this an actual English poem? Some said no, others didn’t hear the question. But the oldest judge pointed out that it was (a) unquestionably a poem (b) in English, even if (c) line 3 resembled something he once saw on a Serbo-Croatian desk calendar.
We do not expect to see a better entry or a wittier last line. If Dr Gillard would forward us a stamped addressed envelope his prize will be on the way.
May 112009
Therewith ye ben so mery and jocounde
That at revel when I see you daunce
It is an oyntement unto my wounde,
Though ye to me ne do no dalliaunce.
The refrain of this bit of Chaucer’s ‘Rosemounde’ contains six two-letter words in a row.
Find a line of English poetry with seven.
May 112009
Spatial common reasoning is strongly related to sight sense. Many times we reference our position with what we see, although we don?t be exactly in that place. ? We call this the source-target problem and we have added a new spatial relationship, hasNiceViewsOf, to model this problem.
Geoconcepts Ontology v1.2 & v1.2_swrl
A Song
Would’st thou once view Celia’s charms
Freed from fear of Love’s alarms?
Then be thou source, and target she,
NiceViewsOf her will ravish thee.Tho’ thou be near, and she be far yet
Cupid’s dart will find its target
Which, striking true, then hath such force,
It turneth target into source.What’s reason then? what then is sight?
When source and target merge by night.
Let spatial reasoning others chuse -
This far excels the Nicest Views.