I saw a terrifying plush reindeer doll in Sainsbury’s last night. It was shaped like a egg. Why was it shaped like a egg? I do not know why it was shaped like a egg.
Here’s a page from the Sainsbury’s website that shows all their Christmassy characters in ‘print out and colour in’ form, including my friend, Eggdeer. They managed to get the Eskimo and the polar bear pretty normal, and although Father Christmas is slightly egg shaped too, at least he’s recognisable as Father Christmas. But the egg-shaped reindeer is just weirding me out big time.
Apparently these are some of the “worst analogies ever written in a high school essay“. But actually, a lot of these are exactly the kind of writing that makes people fawn over ‘real authors’ for their inventive comic way with words. Take this, for example: “The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.” That’s practically a Douglas Adamsism, that is!
Be careful if you’re playing this new UNO game, because you might get AIDS. (video)
Nothing groundbreaking here, but it amuses me that when I search for “Vangelis” in iTunes, it also finds all of the arias from Bach oratorios that feature the Evangelist.