Following on from various threads on LJ regarding DPOW (aka the PP), here are a couple of posts you might have missed at the Daily Mash site:

first this

then this.

After which what more is there to be said?

The other day I was listening to my CD of Mahler's Fifth Symphony through headphones. It must have been the first time I'd done so, because I was highly amused to discover that the conductor (the late Giuseppe Sinopoli) sings along with the orchestra in loud passages (though not, to my relief, during the Adagietto ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted with slight modification from Eine Kleine Nichtmusik.)

Here are the first lines from 20 randomly-picked tracks from my collection, where the first line does not itself contain the song title. Your guesses are solicited as to the song titles and artists. I shall score the lines out as they're guessed. (You might want to check the ( Read more... )

Just to make it plain: if I don't post here very often it isn't that I'm being rude or neglecting you guys on LJ, it's simply that I already have a well-established blog over in the terra incognita (from whose Bourne no Jason is returned, with or without golden fleece) that is Blogger. The puns are no better there, I assure you, but should you wish ( Read more... )

The title of this journal (Head On A Stick) was inspired by discussion on the Feedback page of this week's New Scientist about misprints inspired by copy taken down over the telephone. For example, a software product was described as having a "dragon drop interface". Apparently back in 1999 Feedback reported on a Sheffield newspaper's personal ad ( Read more... )