an exercise in percussive maintenance
Tag: humour
This is too funny not to reblog. It’s funny, mostly because it is true. Oh, so very true…
It is my sincerest hope that reading my blog has made at least one or two people out there think of visiting South Africa. Should such a wonderful thing come to pass, I feel that I have a bit of a responsibility. 23thorns is not a travel brochure. It is not here to create some utopian wonderland full of bunnies and people who say “Have a nice day” like they mean it.
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I’ve been watching on jealously for a while now as some of the bloggers I follow periodically post some of the more interesting search terms that have led potential readers to their sites. I also have been perusing my stats page regularly hoping for some wacky searches, but to no avail – they’ve all been depressingly boring and related to the topics I am writing about. But at last I have a few that I consider worth sharing with you (though some of them are merely shameless self-promotion of some of my older posts). Continue reading “Search term shenanigans I”
Today is a big day in The Flat Overlooking The Vals River. It is the wife’s birthday today, ushering the twenty-nine days of the year where she gets to say that she is older than me. For the next month I have to lay down my mantle of patriarchal authority and defer to her in all things because, you know, we have to respect our elders and all that. (For reasons of health and safety (mine) I can’t tell you how old she is (she actually reads this rag), but I can tell you that I am thirty-one.)
As I watch my dearly beloved advance in years I sit back and once more appreciate the fact of my youth. Some embittered old person once said that youth is wasted on the young. I have decided to stop wasting mine. I am going to follow the wisdom of the book of Ecclesiastes which says, “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes…” (Eccl 11v9, KJV). Continue reading “On enjoying one’s youth”
The temptation is very big to write something about the new Doctor (especially since I see none of my fellow Whovians on my blogroll has done so yet), but that’ll have to wait for tomorrow as it’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.
This week there’s a twist: After my previous piece, Bumblepuppies remarked that he (or she – it’s never really come up) is going to give me a title with no potential fantasy or sci-fi connections (if you’ve been reading my fictional pieces you would know that’s what I tend to write – not so much by conscious choice, though; it’s simply what comes out). I immediately accepted the challenge. The terms are as follow: I have to write fantasy or SF on anything Bumblepuppies throws at me. If I succeed, I win Bumblepuppies’s eternal respect (until the next one). If I fail, Bumblepuppies gets to laugh at me (which is okay as there’s an entire ocean between us, so I won’t hear it).
But I’m expanding the side-challenge also to you, my other readers: From today, if you suggest a title, you will have the option of also giving me the genre in which the piece must be written. I’m going to limit it to the standard genres (and no cross-over) because there’s only so much one can do in 300 words, but that may very well change in future.
As always, you’re welcome to take part. Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.
If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.
This week’s song is Dirty Laundry by Don Henly and the genre is Fantasy/Science Fiction. Thank you to Bumblepuppies for the challenge.
Continue reading “Song Title Challenge #11: Dirty Laundry – Don Henley”
I would like to welcome four new spam-followers to If all else fails…use a hammer. They joined yesterday and, while I know they won’t be reading any of my posts, at least they’re helping me towards my milestone of 100 followers, so good for them.
But that made me think, I haven’t written about spam in ages. To remedy that serious oversight I give you,
It all started with this guy:
Hang on! Sorry. I meant THIS guy: Continue reading “On Spam – A History”
if all else fails...use a hammer 