A Stranged Coloured reptile...

Following on from Scarlets post about the English language and rhyming [or not] words, doesn't 'Purple' rhyme with 'Turtle' after all its only a P for T swap?!? And yes those of you the may have lived or visited Reading may also notice that this is the name of a well know drinking hole, or at least it was when i worked there.

In Other completely unrelated news I stumbled across this page on the net... it doesn't do much but i think it's fun!

Dust

DIO - Doing It Ourselves...

Well after only a few days visiting houses we have found 'the worst house in the best street' to coin a well known frase. If all goes to plan we have decided to buy and renovate a house desperately in need of it, both of us were dubious about jumping into this project but it looks good so far... We may have gotten a little carried away as were already planning the furniture before our offer is even accepted! Lets just hope for 'Grand Designs' not 'DIY SOS'!

Intresting Useless Facts..


· Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

· The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing

· A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

· There are more chickens than people in the world

· All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20

· No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

· An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

· Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

· And last But definatley the most important, An average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

Girls & the Offside rule...

well, I'm sure i'm one of many girls that likes football & watches the football.. But can't seem to quite grasp the offside rule... I thought I'd take a challenge upon myself and try and explain to a bunch of men in the pub, hoping it would be a great pulling factor.. however it went horribly wrong...
so Just for us girls that have the same problem.. here's a link that you may find useful should any embarrasing moments occur.. Everything you need to kno about footie! C'mon Liverpool!

Off-Side rule

It's good to talk..?

Saturday morning started so badly, I always check to post and normally it's only junk mail... quite often bills [but we all expect them] trouble is that this bill was a correction by BT that they have made. Turns out due to their error I owe £200! and they want me to pay asap, no 'Sorry' or 'We apologise' just 'pay up'! British Telecom.. or is it Billing's Terrible? Only one thing to do now, lose myself in the online fun Scarlet has posted below.

Helloooo All.. Im the Scarlet the Newbie Postess, adding some friendly Light fun into Nogginism.... I found some wicked web sites that contain games to pass the time away for when your bored, Or Just when your Ultimatley wishing to Misuse work time.. feel free! Trust me there addictive! Enjoy!

Yeti Darts
Yeti Baseball

Interesting Junk Mail...

Well I normally hate junk emails and chain letters, but this one time proved different, I guess the sender really thought I'd enjoy it, they were right! The email contained a list of many things that prove humans come up with the strangest of rules and are suprisingly funny to us. What do i mean well...

Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a corpse. This also applies to undertakers. The sex organs of the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of wood at all times. A brick of all things!

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores. [But of course!]

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. [Who volunteers for this stuff?]

If you can prove or dis-prove ANY of the above, get in touch I have to know why or how you know!

What Cat in what Hat..?

Well for some reason I seem to be in the minority with my childhood stories from Dr Zuess, Cat in a Hat & Green eggs and ham were 2 of the most memorable books from my childhood. Don't try and find out why, all I know is a remember them. I'm guessing the Author Dr Zuess is infact American ... one quick Google search later and still no answer! What ever the answer what I do know is that the stories although funny and quite strange have some deeper meaning, even some Buddists seem to think the same. What ever the meaning I was happy to see my son pick up the stories and books also and then to top it all off they've made Cat in a Hat into a film, starring the ever funny Mike Myers. Doesn't look like it has been released in the UK but with the great power of the interent it's coming to my DVD player soon!

To eBay or not to eBay...

Well as me and my better half are saving desperately for a deposist on a house and because I'm constantly being pushed to get rid of most of the junk I tend to hoard... eBay was there to save me! I have always known of eBay and the huge following it has, but I had never really thought of trying my hand at it until recently. Now I have a vast collection of things that I always say 'might; come in handy one day... granted that day probably never comes. But in some way it did, after all if I didn't hoard all of it then i wouldn't have had it to sell! I am now a fully fledged eBayer and have some how managed to sell everything I auctioned, combining my web designing skills and the sales background I have certainly has paid off!
Trouble is now I've run out of things to sell... anyone have an attic full of junk please let me know!