Tag: nonsense

Bicycles of Life: a poem

  • February 24, 2012 at 8:01 pm

  • As I posted a silly poem the other day I thought I may as well post more, for posterity. This one is from 1994 and started life as a song(!). About three years ago I added two more verses but forgot to write them down; I spoke them into my phone and then the phone [...]

Puffin Poem

  • February 22, 2012 at 6:15 pm

  • I just composed this in the time it takes to write a tweet. Don’t ask me why or where it came from. I am a puffin Munchin’ on a muffin But I can’t get enuffin ‘Cos I’ve got a small mouth.

Wherefore art Romeo and Juliet on Twitter?

  • March 10, 2009 at 11:22 am

  • The Times Labs have joined the ranks of those pushing Twitter to its limits. It's tweeting the entirety of Romeo and Juliet over the next month: with cats. There are 15 accounts – one for each of the main characters – and a line from the play is tweeted every 15 minutes.

    Good to see that the same paper which throws scorn upon Twitter is testing it with such intellectual rigour. Not.

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If half the world had buildings

  • November 26, 2007 at 8:13 am

  • Based on a friend’s fear of the world becoming unbalanced and slipping off its axis: If half the world had buildings And the other half had none, Would we fly off at a tangent And crash into the sun?

Time Window and Sandbox

  • November 26, 2007 at 12:08 am

  • Obviously time travel is impossible: if I were to go back in time, how on earth would I be able to remember a future that hasn’t happened yet? I’d be stuck with no memory of who I was or where or was, and probably of what I was. Besides, I wouldn’t be there anyway because [...]

New cliches in old bottles

  • November 23, 2007 at 2:19 pm

  • Tired of old cliches? Want some new ones? The Cliche Rotation Project has come to the rescue, with its compilation of alternatives. This is brilliant, I wish I’d thought of it.