Posts Tagged ‘funny’

Cars need decorations, don’t they?

Yesterday was my first day back at work.  It didn’t start well.

As I was reversing out of the garage, I heard a thwang, and then noticed the aerial on the car waving at me through the windscreen.  CRAP, I thought.  I stopped the car to view the damage, thought about cutting it off as it was only held on by a piece of copper wire, but decided that a piece of tape or two would hold it.  Upstairs, I went, but on the way, decided to close the garage door.  CRAP, I didn’t reverse out far enough probably because I was disconcerted to see a piece of my car waving at me.

I nearly had an extra stripe across the bonnet with a matching contour.  Tape retrieved, I proceeded to ‘fix’ – in the loosest definition of that word – the aerial.  It seemed like it would hold, and in fact did, but I’ll keep you posted on that.

The new decoration on my car

The new decoration on my car

So then I moved the car back far enough to close the garage.  Garage closed, I proceeded to start the car, again, but as I was doing that, the gate, which is a very large, very hard, very wide gate swung outwards towards my car (you can see it in the picture above).  Oh CRAP! I thought. And had to get out of the car again!

So my first day, I broke my aerial and nearly dinged my car twice and that was before I got out of the driveway.  It does not bode well for the year.

But then, it can only go uphill which is the direction of the driveway.

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Frock Up!

I don’t usually like putting photos of myself online, but this is a special occasion.  My sister graduated today so i took the opportunity to Frock Up in academic regalia to commemorate the event.  Now there are two doctors in the house (well, to be honest, we live around the same neighbourhood, so two doctors in the hood, er bonnet!)

Dr Silly and Dr Surprised!
Dr Silly and Dr Surprised

Just to be clear, I am not Dr Surprised in this photo!

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Overcoming writer’s block

For your reviewing pleasure, I give you lolresearch!

The wiki way: It’s way

Alisun and Luck

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Wiki is way, thinking and problemz it’s solushun for cats. If you haz problem u need collaborashun of peeps with wiki cause its way for makin peeps work in grops. You can haz max sharing and learns with peeps who haz noa collaborats wit u. If peeps collaborat you haz max experiuns wit good peeps and do moar. Much moar than you can do if u are alones. This paper argues for peeps to be wiki way. Way is good.

(Actually written by Luck, not Alisun.)

(Also, actual paper we’re trying to write.)

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Snakes … in a car!

The news sweeping the world over the last 12 or so hours reminded me of an incident a few years ago (previously posted elsewhere but worthy of wider posting).

I was living in a nice, rural area, about an hour north of Brisbane, Queensland. I have a cat (Roo Frack) who delights in bringing me presents, generally still alive. Most of the birds he caught flew away, once we saved them. However, one day he dropped a snake just outside the front door which I noticed as I was seeing my daughter off for school – barefoot. Anyway, I rang the local reptile park and asked if they could come and retrieve said injured, live snake, which happened to be black with a light red underbelly.

Now I ask you, would you pick up an injured snake of that description? … No, I thought not.

Anyway, I had to take the snake to them as they didn’t do pickups. So, I got a pillow case and, with the aid of my daughter and the ubiquitous Aussie implement – the stick, carefully placed the snake in the pillow case. Being paranoid about having a snake in my car, I put the snake in the pillow case in a big plastic cube, and taped a huge hunk of cardboard over the top. Being petrified of snakes, I placed the box in a doona (quilt) cover. and tied it in a big knot.

I then drove 5 minutes to the reptile park with said bundle in the boot (trunk?) of my car, got out of the car and went into the reptile park so someone could retrive the snake. So, this fellow comes out, kinda looking at me funny and requests that I bring the snake inside. After retrieving said snake in pillow case in box in doona cover from the boot of my car I re-entered the establishment holding the whole kit and kaboodle at arms length and dumped it on the counter.

Picture, if you will, the look of complete bafflement I got about being so scared of snakes. There were numerous more baffled and disbelieving looks passed my way as the fellow opened up my packaging. By the time he got to the snake, he actually thought I was a complete drongo. So he pulls this snake out of the pillow case and went into raptures about it. Apparently, it was a small-eyed snake (not too poisonous), gravid (pregnant), and ‘it was a beudy’. I was then asked, as said fellow played with this snake, where it came from. Being quick witted, I gave an address at the opposite side of Beerwah as the snake slithered around being held onto by … have you guessed yet?

Beerwah Reptile Park is now Australia Zoo.

Steve Irwin thought I was an idiot.

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Key words?

So, I was talking to J today, and finally, she has succumbed to the beast that is LJ. *bwahahahahaha*

I also talked to the wonderful people in the learning development unit about my application for the fellowship to play with wikis. (I really must chase up that new server that supposed to be going online soon.) They were suitably impressed and gave me all the key words that I should be including, although I think they used a different phrase. I let them play with the tiddlywiki and two hours later they were still giggling at some of the new words they were learning.

*note to self* post a list of wiki learning sites*

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