This Is Quite Interesting

The latest of Burger King’s interactive sites allows you to get “Simpsonized”

Simply upload a photo (there is no need to register if you don’t want to), make a few adjustments (it is a computer program, so not perfect), then download your photo or send it to friends by email.

Here is me after my SimpsonizeMe visit.

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I received this in an email today. I thought it so good, instead of forwarding it on to the others in my address book, I would upload it here to share with all the readers of my website.

Look at the picture below (if you click on it, you will get a larger image).

You can see where the man drove through the guard rail (where the people are standing on the road). His van travelled from there & flipped end-over-end crossing the drainage outlet and landing on the left side of it.

When we zoom out of the scene…

Click to see why I have called it a Lucky Escape

I’m sure someone (or something) was looking after the driver that day. What do you think?

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We have phrases that look perfectly normal to us:

• The bandage was wound around the wound.
• The farm was used to produce produce.
• The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
• We must polish the Polish furniture.
• He could lead if he would get the lead out.
• The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
• Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
• A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
• When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
• I did not object to the object.
• The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
• There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
• They were too close to the door to close it.
• The buck does funny things when the does are present.
• A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
• To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
• The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
• After a number of injections my jaw got number.
• Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
• I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
• How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

In what other language:

• Do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
• Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
• Can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
• Can you have a nose that runs and feet that smell?

It just goes to prove that English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why:

• When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
• There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
• English muffins weren’t invented in England nor French fries in France.
• Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
• Your house can burn up as it burns down, you fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm goes off by going on.

Finally:

• Why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?
• If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese, so one moose, two meese?
• If you have a load of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?
• If teachers have taught, why haven’t preachers praught?
• Doesn’t it seem crazy, that you can make amends but not one amend?
• If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Adapted from a page I found HERE

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I have just joined a site called YouGov. In my spare time I answer a few questions about current affairs and I get paid for doing it!

From the YouGov website:

As a member of the YouGov Panel you will be invited from time-to-time to participate in surveys on topics ranging from from politics to painkillers to pensions. Each time you take part in a survey, you will have your virtual YouGov account credited with cash amounts depending on the survey’s length, or you may be entered into a prize draw. When you reach £50 in your account, YouGov will send you a cheque for that amount.

Simply click the YouGov.com link below or in the menu on the right, fill in a questionaire about yourself and you will receive £1.00 in survey credit just for signing up!

You can do as few or as many surveys as you choose, there is no fee and no minimum term to subscribe for. Most importantly (for me at least) is you complete surveys at a time that suits you, not when the the market researcher stops you in the street or calls whilst you are eating dinner.

YouGov.com

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For those that are young (or old) enough to care, Britney Spears has finally gone topless! Of all the places to do it, she has done so on her official website!

Ms Spears is creating a “new official website”. On the temporary front page is a message of thanks to her fans for sticking by her “during this trying time”. Along with the letter is a picture of the pop star dressed only in a blonde wig and white gloves.

She’s only 25, but it seems like ages that we (well, some people) have waited for this moment. How long before she is posing for Playboy (contains adult content)… only time (and media pressure) will tell. I, for one, am not holding my breathe. Nor will I be rushing out to buy a copy if/when the time does come.

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