OddThinking

Julian makes a pointless pointed comment about the food served in typical US restaurants.

Thanks GIO Insurance for ringing me today. You saved me a lot of money!

At uni, my friend, Karen, ran up to me. “Come with us to the airport! Stephanie is coming back from a long trip to the UK, and we are all going to greet here!”

A note to the would-be pedant at Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

Lister really didn’t like Craig much, but that was no excuse for the dirtiest prank I have ever heard.

In which Julian re-discovers his masculinity – it was in the wrong place all along

… and then he loses it again

… and proves he can turn the most mundane act into a story.

Here’s a little puzzle for web-developers.

Netscape defined a number of colour names that, although not standard, are accepted by a number of browsers. Their definitions of some of the colours leave me rather confused.

I was called back angrily to fix the TV – when Position 8 was selected, Channel 2 was shown, rather than the VCR!

Huh? I fixed that yesterday? I re-tuned it, and scratched my head, and watched it for a while. It worked fine.

This repeated several times with my family getting more and more annoyed at me.

Wayne worked on a project installing a custom computer system onto an oil-rig. When the system was ready to ship, they packed it all up into boxes, took it down to the car-park. Then they ran one last test.

Many years ago – I was still a preteen – my grandparents were hosting a dinner for all of their children and their grandchildren. After dinner, we kids played some cards, while the adults talked. We were playing Pontoon – which is a gambling game – but rather than using matches for tokens, we borrowed […]