Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.
No, sir. I mean to swat him [in] the head with it. Pursuant to Rule 32, I may use the deposition “for any purpose” and that is the purpose for which I want to use it.
Cloning is quite interesting, to be sure, but have you considered the evil twin problem?
is a chador the same as a burqa?
Kathy Kinsley relays a cheering rant from Iran.
(Link updated 2004 Oct 06.)
The BBC has won a legal dispute with Scotland Yard over the trademark of the blue box. (From Plokta)
and then there’s the Rule of Five
Just found again, by chance, something that crossed my mind the other day. The author of The Bible Code responded thus in 1997 to the obvious criticism that you can find anything if you massage random data enough: “When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I’ll believe them.” So, for those who haven’t seen it already, or misplaced the bookmark: Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick.
Hrodulf the Red-Nosed Reindeer: An Original Old English Poem
Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor–
Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas!
Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele.
. . . .
This came to me by mail some weeks ago, with the funny letters mangled beyond my ability to decipher. Here it is in all its glory.
John J. Miller alerts us at The Corner that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born eleventy-one years ago today.
Which reminds me of yet another of my oddball notions. I don’t like the word eleventy-first (or even twenty-first), because the root of first has nothing to do with ‘one’ let alone ‘one more’: it is related to foremost. Why don’t we say twenty-oneth or twenty-next?