As a mom, this definitely could have been I as we were raising our kids (sorry, Wordcrafters!): LinkThis message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh,
June 11, 2010, 09:20
Kalleh
My daughter, who works at a help desk in an IT firm, sent me this. Pretty funny!
When I used to teach computer classes in adult school back in the previous millennium, I noticed that there were two kinds of computer users: i.e., the abstract and the concrete. The former could fish the menus and extrapolate to solve their problem. The latter could (or would not) not. At one of the last computer shows I went to I LLOL at a fellow's T-shirt. It read, "No, I will not fix your computer!"
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
June 11, 2010, 13:43
<Proofreader>
Speaking of computer-illiteratcy, here is a funny example that is kind of cuter.
My daughter works for the Chicago school system, and one teacher called for help in fixing her computer. It seems she ran over her laptop with her car! (I am guessing, unlike the cartoon, it was an accident. )
In case you're not a "clicker," it is an example of "free verse" that he wrote for a class:
There is a loo in Sandburg Hall With random thoughts scratched in the stall. They have no flow; they make no sense, No point but minor prurience, nor rhyme; but this we must concede: They do not cost a dime to read.
June 20, 2010, 20:46
Kalleh
Ah well, I seem to be the only one enjoying comics here, but whatever.
The Pickles comic often is word related and today it highlighted one of my favorite words: flummoxed. Link
Found on Randy Cassingham's "Jumbo Joke" site, in a collection of comments by politicians: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --President George W. Bush
I bet he stole that line from Dan Quayle.
Geoff, soon to be living in Quayle country
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
I haven't worn a wristwatch for five years or so, since the strap broke and I couldn't be arsed to get it replaced.
At work and home there are plenty of clocks around, and I rarely need to know the exact time when I'm out. In any event, there are often clocks around on public buildings and in stations and so on.
I do sometimes check my mobile phone for the time like the woman in the cartoon, but, although I don't usually have to spend time searching for it in the depths of a handbag, I do sometimes find that I've forgotten to charge it.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
January 11, 2011, 05:28
<Proofreader>
Speaking of clocks, it appears the smallest person on Earth ever was, according to the Bible, the soldier who slept on his watch.
Originally posted by arnie: ... I couldn't be arsed ...
I've never heard that phrase before. I did find it in the OED Online, though, and it's first citation was from 1988:
quote:
arse, v Draft additions March 2001 trans. (in pass.). slang (chiefly Brit. and Irish English). To be willing to make the required effort; to be bothered. Usu. in negative constructions, such as can't be arsed (to do something).
1988 G. Patterson Burning your Own vii. 88 Don't forget who it was who organized the building of all this when you were too sulky to be arsed doing anything.
January 11, 2011, 20:42
Kalleh
It is an interesting phrase, isn't it?
January 23, 2011, 19:16
Kalleh
A solution for the "heaviest issue of our time"...
And this time managing to be BOTH maths AND word related.
Panel one is the one that always bugs me. That very sign is up in my local supermarket.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
March 09, 2011, 02:05
Guy Barry
I liked a cartoon that I once saw, possibly in Private Eye, showing two supermarket checkouts. The first was signed "8 items or less". The second was signed "8 items or fewer for pedants".
March 09, 2011, 02:27
BobHale
I've commented before about another sign in my local supermarket.
"Up to 15 items or less".
Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
March 10, 2011, 21:27
Kalleh
I can't tell you how many survey's I've received that say:
_1-20 _20-40 _40-60 _60-80 _80-100
Okay, what if you are 20, 40, 60 or 80? Which do you select?
One of you linked to this site (jheem?) but I lingered and looked around and found this very funny strip set to Gilbert and Sullivan!
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
June 01, 2012, 01:49
arnie
Yes, that's a favourite site for several of us, CW. Several people have posted links, the most recent being Bob on 25 April. I'm subscribed to it by RSS although I confess I've been rather remiss lately in not keeping up to date with posts for some weeks because of information overload.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
June 02, 2012, 04:51
wordmatic
quote:
Originally posted by arnie: I'm subscribed to it by RSS although I confess I've been rather remiss lately in not keeping up to date with posts for some weeks because of information overload.
Me too, on the recommendation of my son the programmer. Some of them are totally over my head, though.
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