OddThinking

I once saw this fantastic balloon-artist perform. Well, actually, he wasn’t a balloon-artist, but really a mime artist.

When you order an ice cream, always specify your favourite flavour first.

She whispered down the phone, “Quick! Julian, I am ringing from your father’s house. What is the name of the tip of a shoelace?”

Do you remember the opening scenes of The Matrix, when Carrie-Ann Moss acts like an android; running and fighting almost robotically, while her face remained calm and completeless emotionless?

Were you distracted by some guy in the cinema laughing riotously during this dramatic opening?

I’m sorry, that was me.

The poor kid was trying to be a gentleman and look in the opposite direction to the mass of perfectly-formed young female bodies each trying to get hurriedly changed from one swim-suit to another.

I thought this he was missing a great opportunity.

Meantime, I started negotiating a deal. Grace would persuade Ben to give up the secret to the binary trick…

I listened to a lecture by Bertrand Meyer on the subject of Ariane 5 about eleven years ago. It made me mad.

John explained that he had a novel way of looking at the problem of climate change, and that no-one he had showed it to had been able to find a flaw.

Let me have a go.

I’ve noticed that my ability to get changes made depends on my mood. Conversely, my mood is determined by my ability to achieve change.

My sense of direction is all but non-existent, so I have wanted a working Satellite Navigation system for my car for years.