A quote from an article about Warren Buffet's philanthropy:

As well as donating to the Gates foundation, he also
pledged shares for his three children and a substantial gift for a
foundation named for his late wife, Susan Thompson Buffett.

All I could think about was George Costanza working at the Susan Ross Foundation!

"Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of education is ( Read more... )

I thought the Bible had some vague passages but this Koran entry is in a league of its own:

And when it is said to them: Believe as the people believe they say:
Shall we believe as the fools believe? Now surely they themselves are
the fools, but they do not know. And when they meet those who believe, they say: We believe.
What can I say but ...

From an article about The DaVinci Code movie:

The Christian Enquiry Centre planned yesterday to distribute ( Read more... )

I think of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Nintendo Wii and I touch myself.


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The new first grade students at my junior high school who are studying English for the first time use a workbook called Enjoy Writing to practice the alphabet. A student couldn't find his workbook, so went up to the teacher and said:

"Sensei, I never got my copy of Enjoy LifeIt's heartening to imagine that a student might possibly think an ( Read more... )

When Lines of Communication Cross!

Neighbour: "So anyway, I better get going. I hope that your bicycle's OK."

Me: "Dont worry, it's a sandwich."

There's an explanation but .. let's just enjoy the absurdity.

I misread this sentence:

She is a plump, pleasant-faced woman.

as

She is a plump, pheasant-faced woman.

Spent a lot of time at work going through a lot of the junk at my desk and stuff in the store-room left by the previous ALT. I had thrown out or shredded about half the Amazon by lunchtime ( Read more... )

Rice and Straw arrive in Baghdad

I'm sure that poor Baghdad needs supplies to rebuild itself, but is rice and staw really the best that the international community could muster?