Archive for October, 2007

My apologies, but there seems to have been another hiccough with the email subscription feed here on The Word. I hopefully have it fixed now. Although it does fall over on occasion, the email subscription is a good way to keep up to speed with things here – you’ll get a short email digest...
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In my day job as a Martial Arts instructor, I teach classes in various locations around Sydney. Some of those are in schools and universities, where I rent space after hours for classes. In one of the primary schools that I teach from, the younguns have obviously been learning about the evils and dangers...
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It’s true. The town of Yass is about sixty kilometres north of Canberra, the nation’s capital. McDonald’s, however, should have thought a bit harder about their sign before putting it up beside the highway.
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This is a sign made by more of those signwriting idiots that we’ve seen here on The Word before. This one truly denies all logic and any attempt at understanding. I don’t want to go in anyway, as the place must be full of idiots.
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So, Albus Dumbledore is gay and Christians are idiots. I’m not telling you anything you didn’t already know, I suppose. It seems that J K Rowling has posthumously outed Dumbledore. In a fan Q and A at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Rowling was asked if Dumbledore had ever enjoyed passion in his life. She...
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Apparently. What’s even more surprising, and surely some kind of mistake, is that the foul, arrogant and completely talentless Liam Gallagher is among the top ten wittiest men. This all comes from a digital television channel called in Britain called DaveTV, so make of it what you will. Though Baroness Thatcher, the Iron Lady...
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Here are a few reasons to think that humanity has a limited time on this planet. There are so many intelligent, artistic people out there that could help to turn humanity into something truly wonderful. Trouble is, there are that many more complete Idiots. Remember Mr Moran a couple of posts ago? He’s not...
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Here at The Word we know the Washington Post’s competition for creating new words by combining two existing words, such as Foreploy (n): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid; or, Ignoranus (n): A person who’s both stupid and an asshole. Well, The Washington Post has also run a competition for...
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I think this guy shows the education and eloquence required for the White House. After the precedent set by good old Dubya, this guy has to be a shoe in. Yeah, Go USA!
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What’s the harm in having a little light-heartedness in traffic control? The small suburb of Oak Lawn in Chicago is tired of people not stopping at Stop signs and the Mayor, Dave Heilmann, has come up with a way to make them more noticeable. “I thought it might make people smile,” he said. Mayor...
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