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May 10, 2009

How to Spot Symptoms of Swine Flu

Filed under: Funnies, Words and language — Jeremy @ 9:52 am
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My friend Briar Singleton has recently shared with me the following symptoms of Swine Flu:

Look out for any unusual blemishes or rashers.
Unusual behaviour: Doing things you would normally find a complete boar.
Bad temper: Things start to easily rind you up.
High temperature: Feeling that you are absolutely bacon hot.
Chills: Feeling like you need to hog the duvet or curl up in front of a crackling fire.
Developing a sty in either or both eyes.
Urgent cravings: For a large glass of swine or stuffing yourself on apples.
Wanting to fight: Shouting things like “Gammon, have a go if you think you’re hard enough”.
Having trouble with the truth: You’re always telling porky pies.

If any of these symptoms show, then immediately call a hambulance, and go to the hogspital for treatment. Smokers please note it is a non-smoking facility, so you won’t be able to have a snout. If it’s a false alarm, you can trotter off home, but if the symptoms return, you may need to go to your local farmacy for some oinkment.

Another treatment for Swine Flu: Spend the night in a smoky room and in the morning you will be cured.

FIFA has banned Mexican Waves at soccer matches to prevent the spread of infection.

With all the information we are receiving about Swine Flu from the media and the government, there is no danger of us being pig-ignorant about it!

May 6, 2009

Can Windows Error Messages Be This Poetic?

Filed under: Poetry, Words and language — Jeremy @ 7:24 pm
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In Japan, the impersonal and unhelpful error messages from Microsoft have been replaced by traditional haiku poetry:

The web site you seek
cannot be located, but
countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Windows XP crashed.
I am the blue screen of death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful
but now it is gone.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

Three things are certain.
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
but we never will.

Having been erased,
the document you’re seeking
must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

May 5, 2009

The Backup Song

Filed under: Funnies, Music, Poetry — Jeremy @ 8:50 pm
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A few months ago, in a blog post titled “To Buy or Not to Buy” my friend Vanessa Cobb bewailed the fact that her computer had been playing up so much that she had been forced to think about getting a new one. She did so through the eyes of Hamlet. If she had left it too late, and the hard drive had failed before she had backed up her files, she might have thought of this song.

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There’s not half the files there used to be,
And there’s a millstone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say.

Now all my data’s gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

May 4, 2009

Some Song Titles to Make You Laugh

Filed under: Funnies, Music, Words and language — Jeremy @ 8:18 pm
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My previous post was about my nephew’s rock band. They don’t play Country and Western music, so I’m sure they wouldn’t touch any of these classics, which are listed on the Freeman Institute website:

  • I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim Is Gettin’ Better
  • I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
  • Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
  • Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth ‘Cause I’m Kissing You Goodbye
  • Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure
  • How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?
  • I Don’t Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling
  • I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me
  • I Flushed You From The Toilet Of My Heart
  • I Keep Forgettin’ I Forgot About You
  • I Wouldn’t Take Her To A Dog Fight, Cause I’m Afraid She’d Win
  • I’m Just A Bug On The Windshield Of Life
  • If You Don’t Leave Me Alone, I’ll Go And Find Someone Else Who Will
  • If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
  • Mama Get The Hammer (There’s A Fly On Papa’s Head)
  • My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him
  • She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft
  • She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger

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