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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Words of the year

Some highlights from the BBC's E-cyclopedia's glossary of 2003. Governator - term for the new governor of California. Kippers - kids in parents' pockets exhausting retirement savings. Mark 7 and 8 Mammal Marine Systems - dolphins, as used by Allied forces. Sitcom - single income,

Politically Correct Christmas

(Posted to alumni mailing list, author unknown) Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular

Rubber chickens

Inspired by Fred. After this post asking for titles, Fred challenged me to come up with something involving rubber chickens and toilet plungers. This was the result. (Note: what follows is a big fat lie, I made it all up. No chickens were harmed in the making of this post.

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Exchange:: currency, UK pounds to US dollars, £1 equals about $1.65. 2. Parental Advisory:: Guns N Roses as the voicemail "on hold" music. 3. Blowout:: tyre, Firestone, Ford Exploder. 4. Spider:: brown recluse spider, rumours of houses infested with them.

Recipe: English scones

Speaking of baking scones, this is my English scone recipe. It does work, I'm baking it on Wednesday for Christmas dinner at a friend's house. Makes about 15 scones and one runty little test scone * 1 pound of flour (I used half wheat flour and half

Free Association

Unconscious Mutterings game of free association. 1. Warning:: bottle of sleeping pills, label says "Warning, may cause drowsiness." 1. Aspirations:: to go, New Zealand. To do, try to draw, finish Hubby's sweater. 2. Starvation:: Ethiopia. 3. Lid:: baseball cap. 4. Sketch:: Art class, compulsory fifteen pencil

Pepys Project

I've mentioned the Pepys Project before, it's a blog listing by country and city, maintained by Mike of aka cooties. Pepys is a jolly good list. So if you're not signed up on Pepys, go get listed. And if you have a burning curiosity

TV shutdown

Go Italy! Italians urged to switch off TVs . This is a great idea. Could you go without TV for a weekend? Television networks in Italy are facing a nationwide weekend walkout - not by staff, but by unhappy viewers. Instead of spending Friday, Saturday and Sunday glued to primetime TV,

Canadian research

Wonderful paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: Head injuries in nursery rhymes: evidence of a dangerous subtext in children's literature. In the case of Humpty Dumpty, we question whether "all the king's horses and all the king's men" were capable of

Titles needed

Several blogs I've read have recently asked people to send them a list of questions to answer. I like the idea, and please leave questions in the comments of this post, but I have another idea. It's been a while since I added to the Humour

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