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December 31, 2011I won’t take the standard 20,896,443 words to go into why James Joyce’s Ulysses is such a spectacular book, but...
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February 13, 2011How do you take one of your five serves of fruit and veges a day and make it unhealthy? Chocolate...
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October 20, 2010The humble office stamp is around to make your life easier, by producing difficult-to-write words like “COPY” in bold, red...
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August 9, 2010“…we just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice…”
Tony Abbott, Melbourne, 16/02/10. Can I please have cancer...
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April 13, 2010While on my nightly trek to the bottle shop I noticed a rather oddly named drink. Can you guess the...
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March 28, 2010Number 7. Learn how to play poker better. You never know when the gambling addiction will take hold of you-...
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January 30, 2010The jokes are there with the Los Angeles Times tech blog asking, “Yes, the iPad is small, lightweight and slim....
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January 16, 2010Yes it’s goat-frog. You know that cheese, no pair of jeans, no massage service…. Whatever it is, it’s doing a...
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January 2, 2010What better way to bring in a new decade than by reminiscing about the old one? And nothing symbolises the...
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December 19, 2009Chocolate is pretty high on my list of things to murder a swan over, so I thought what better way...
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December 2, 2009The real estate agent must have told a few porky pies when selling these blocks of land. Noisy neighbours isn’t...
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November 19, 2009What’s inside the kitty. And better still, you can wear this specimen of dressed-up offal on a T-Shirt ...
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November 12, 2009What I miss about the UK nicely summarised. ...
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October 31, 2009Unit Man won’t jump tall buildings in a single bound, but he will will rescue consumers from the confusing perils...
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October 25, 2009In a pickle about how to tell that special someone in your life that they mean a lot to you?...
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October 24, 2009In what may look like a cheap attempt for me to generate hits with my keyword-rich title, I’ve decided it’s...
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October 4, 2009Courtesy of the McDonald’s marketing department, you can classify: Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun as the longest word. Try Tweeting that to your...
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September 16, 2009Travel writing isn’t just about making people desirous of palm tree-lined beaches or hammocks strung from precariously bendy branches, if...
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September 1, 2009I’m always happy for an excuse to cook up something interesting, and this one happens to be a pretty good...
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August 29, 2009Found this on Amazon when I wasn’t searching for anything remotely pig-related. If you’re wondering what else people bought, look...
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August 26, 2009For whatever reason, these interesting bits of punctuation almost made their way onto a QWERTY keyboard, but somehow missed out....
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August 25, 2009If a food item can land you in court for saying it incorrectly, then it’s definitely worth a mention. This...
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August 24, 2009The leg bone’s connected to the knee bone,
the knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone,
the thigh bone’s connected to the...
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August 21, 2009Fusion food is interesting. But does it make up for lack of quality? I think yes, if it’s really, really...
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August 20, 2009This has been doing the rounds on the web today: Total Eclipse Of The Heart Flowchart I thought all I...
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August 19, 2009Poetry is one of those ideas that can evoke in you a hazy understanding about words that sound quite nice...
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August 18, 2009If there’s something that speaks for a nation’s identity, it’s food and hairstyles. Because I’m the kind of person who...
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August 17, 2009I realise this post is largely an exercise in stereotyping, but as such, it’s going to be a good one....
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August 16, 2009Deconstructing literature may seem like an awfully high-brow way to start of on a blog, but this is actually more...