OddThinking

What would a Venusian think about zippers?

At what age did boys make model airplanes? At that tender age, I had never been so mortified – it absolutely horrified me what this young sales assistant thought.

Here’s another story of coming out wrong… wait, wait… let me re-word that.

Hey Mr. Windows Application Install-Script Developer, can I have a chat with you for a moment?

I am encountering a weird networking problem.

There’s an advertising campaign at the moment showing a blonde model wearing nothing but white underwear. Every day, I pass this image on a billboard. Every day, I double-take and look again in shock. Finally, I shake my head at the standards of today’s advertising.

“I will read your mind!” boasted the mentalist. “You can pick a colour, or a flower, or an element of the periodic table, write it down, show it to the audience and seal it in an envelope. Then I will read your mind and predict what it says! In fact, you could write any English word, and I will predict it.”