Ouch! Your four toes watching how you hit the little one on the corner of a piece of furniture.
Ouch! Your four toes watching how you hit the little one on the corner of a piece of furniture.
Bad fiction awards
The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest calls for entrants to “compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels”. This was a dishonourable mention. “The clouds resembled an endless roll of runaway toilet paper that unspooled itself into a massive fluffy pile, the sound of the lightningbanged like hundreds of inadvertently dropped toilet seats, and the rain quickly flooded the street and spilled over the kerb like a toilet clogged with who-knows-what,” reported eyewitness to the sudden storm and flash flood, Steve Talbot of Steve’s Plumbing. (Mark Meiches, Dallas, TX)
Marriage is...
“Just told my sleeping husband I lost two kilos, to which he replied, with his eyes still closed, “I’ll help you find them. We’ll look later”. With no help from my husband at all, I did, in fact, end up getting the two kilos back, thanks to my friend French Fries.”
The International OCD Foundation has a helpful nine-step photographic rating of household clutter as a way to diagnose hoarding disorder. Level 3 is “standard household clutter”, while level 7 “poses significant safeguarding issues”.
Level 7.
Nothing will come of nothing
Japanese convenience store chain Lawson recently launched a rather intriguing new product — flavourless candy that apparently tastes like emptiness.
Whether it be sweet, sour, salty or even spicy, candy has always been associated with a type of flavour.
Well, at least until now, because flavourless candy is a thing these days. Lawson, one of Japan’s largest convenience store chains, is currently testing a number of products, including the aptly-named Aji no Shinai? Ame (Tasteless? Candy), which apparently tastes like nothing.
