Email from Carolyn:
How about this one then: if you turn your right foot in circles clockwise then draw a number 6 in the air, your foot will be turning anti-clockwise.
Dammit, she's right!
Transit
Contrary to all expectations, I managed to view today's Transit of Venus. My improvised pin-hole telescope could see the sun, but didn't have enough resolution to distinguish Venus, so I resorted to a binocular image projected on to white card.
For those of you who didn't manage to see it, here is a scientifically accurate artist's impression of the momentous event. I bet you're kicking yourselves.
You're not from round these parts, are you?
Reuters: Yuppies find peace in hippie hub
If you're going to Hebden Bridge, you no longer need to wear flowers in your hair. Times have changed—but although the beads and incense have gone, the spirit that has made this town a hub of alternative Britain remains.
The beads and insense have gone?! Have you been anywhere near Hebden Bridge lately? Beads and insense is all they bloody well sell (apart from psychic crystals, wind chimes and pot pourri, that is).
Welcome to Hippie Central.
Pope meets Dope
The incomprehensible meets the inarticulate:
Seeing double
A couple of months back, Carolyn told me that, wherever she goes, she keeps seeing adult identical twins dressed in the same clothes. I told her she was imagining things.
Ever since Carolyn told me about this X-filesesque phenomenon, however, whenever she and I have met for our weekly coffee, she has pointed out adult identical twins dressed in the same clothes. They have been different identical twins each time.
I'm beginning to find it a bit freaky.
Weighty matters
Child next to the scales in the fruit and veg. section of the Co-op:
Hey, my hand weighs five pounds!
Sidekick
From an email to Stense:
Hey, Stense, something's been bothering me all week. You know The Lone Ranger? Well, why's he called The Lone Ranger when he's got a sidekick, Tonto? It doesn't make sense. That's like calling me Richard 'Small Knob' Carter. By rights, our hero should be called The Accompanied Ranger.
Voodoo
BBC: Sex offenders may face lie tests
Sex offenders released from prison could face compulsory lie detector tests, under new plans.
Sounds expensive to me. Why don't they use dowsing-rods instead? Just as trustworthy, by all accounts.
See also: De-fibulators (14-Apr-03)
Whey-aye, pet!
I'm in Newcastle. Canny day for it.
Clear as mud
Carolyn emails:
Howard saw a very young one in our garden once and rang and reported it to someone because he thought it must have escaped from somewhere. Whoever he spoke to said it was probably just a wild one and not to worry! I thought that was very odd too - do you think there is some mysterious experiment going on or something?
I hope that's clarified matters.