Despite never being published in the paper, the following brief letter — sent to the offices of The Times in 1946 by the famously eccentric Lt. Col. Alfred Daniel Wintle — was so adored by staff, it has apparently been preserved ever since. It’s easy to see why.
Tag Archives: humour
Bacon Ipsum
I was mocking up a web design one day and needed a few words to fill out a link. ‘Lorem ipsum bacon’ popped into my head, so I plugged that into my HTML. Later that day, it hit me. Make a lorem ipsum generator but use types and cuts of meat.
I would like to point out…
The following note was written by Eric Idle to fellow-Python Graham Chapman in the late-1970s.
A Git Guide to Dating
1. Go to bar
2. Find hot girl, git checkout
One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot
A gay man tried to poison his lesbian neighbours by putting slug pellets into their curry after he was accused of kidnapping their three-legged cat.
Greatest headline ever. Mail Online: One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot
Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
Still, bad though it is, I vaguely prefer the clumping, clueless, uncool, crappiness of Microsoft’s bland Stepford gang to the creepy assurance of the average Mac evangelist. At least the grinning dildos in the Windows video are fictional, whereas eerie replicant Mac monks really are everywhere, standing over your shoulder in their charcoal pullovers, smirking with amusement at your hopelessly inferior OS, knowing they’re better than you because they use Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard. I don’t care if you’re right. I just want you to die.
How Long Does Bill Murray Spend in Groundhog Day?
According to Harold Ramis, on the Groundhog Day DVD commentary, Bill Murray spent 10 years trapped in his own little corner of hell… But this seems like an arbitrary number. We can do better than that.
Wolf Gnards: How Long Does Bill Murray Spend in Groundhog Day?
Give Up and Use Tables
We’ve scientifically determined the maximum amount of time that you should need to make a layout work in CSS: it’s 47 minutes. When your time is up, we’ll even give you the table code you need. Take three minutes to build a table. And ten minutes to get a donut. Bill the client for an hour. Done.