Showing posts with label english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label english. Show all posts

Thursday

Clear as mud

This was sent to my friend James from Australia. It appeared in a local newspaper.

From deep in the bowels of the Australian Taxation Office, new staff instructions regarding emails:-

Quote: "Some emials can be classified as unclassified, and in the process of classifying an email as unclassified, the unclassified email has been classified. But an email that has yet to be classified is not technically unclassified, or classified."

PS - "Clear as mud," means that something is not understandable.

Wednesday

America's Next Top Model Spoof



French and Saunders are very well known in the UK. Here Jennifer auditions for an overly tall "Tyra Banks" played by Dawn French, in a parody of America's Next Top Model. Taken from "A Bucket O' French and Saunders".

Saturday

Creative Writing Contest - the Winning Entry

A university creative writing class was asked to write a concise essay containing these four elements:
- religion
- royalty
- sex
- mystery

The prize-winning essay read:

"My God," said the Queen. "I'm pregnant. I wonder who did it?"

Sunday

The definition of "annoying"