”slip of the click” (Google Search) Just now, a colleague accidentally hit “reply all” instead of “reply,” and immediately sent out an apology: “Got you all by a slip of the click.” I’d never heard that term before, but I like it. A quick search of Google reveals only 5 references on the internet.
A group of Buddhist monks in Malaysia is appealing for help to solve a problem with ants. Buddhism forbids devotees from harming any living creature. So the monks are looking for a creative and non-violent solution to deal with the insects, which are biting worshippers. —Malaysian monks face ant dilemma (BBC) Rosemary, who sent me the…
The music-master of George III said to his royal pupil, “There are three classes of violin players; those who do not play at all, those who play very badly, and those who play well. Your Majesty has already succeeded in reaching the second class.” —Constructive Exercises in English (Boogle Books) Now that’s tact.
Then they tried to do a documentary of their own about him — and ran into the same sort of resistance Moore himself famously faces in his own films. The result is “Manufacturing Dissent,” which turns the camera on the confrontational documentarian and examines some of his methods. Among their revelations in the movie, which…
Then how the pussy-cats did mew What else, poor pussies, could they do? They screamed for help, ’twas all in vain, I So then, they said, “We’ll scream again. Make haste, make haste! me-ow! me-o! She’ll burn to death,- we told her so.” So she was burnt with all her clothes, And arms and hands,…