Rap!

Posted by Ade on Thursday, August 31st, 2006 at 10:16 AM

Spontaneous thought after misreading a headline in today's Bund about rapping (German “Rappen”):

If you gather 100 rappers, do you get a franker?

I know, I know.

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Erm... with a camel?

Posted by Ade on Monday, August 28th, 2006 at 4:37 PM
in the desert...
in the desert...

Advert of an unspecified Airline. I wonder what exactly the tours they offer involve. It's slightly disturbing that the image shows a camel, though…

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TSA: Prohibited (and compulsory) Items

Posted by Ade on Sunday, August 20th, 2006 at 1:12 PM

From TSA: Prohibited Items!

We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage.

Hmmm… I don't have any gel filled bras. Better stock up before my next trip.

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One band around what?

Posted by Ade on Friday, August 18th, 2006 at 2:29 PM
Boeing MD-80
Boeing MD-80

Security leaflet on a Boeing MD-80. Hmmm…

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Clarkson Quote

Posted by Ade on Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 9:31 AM

Some quotes by Jeremy Clarkson should not be read in the office, if you don't want to puzzle cow-orkers by laughing out loud:

People often criticise her (Parker-Bowles) because she's approaching 60, but they forget that Princess Diana was approaching 120 when she went into the tunnel.

Jeremy Clarkson

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Word of the Day: Jökulhlaup!

Posted by Ade on Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 at 3:09 AM
Myrdalsjökull
Myrdalsjökull

This picture shows — obviously — a glacier. What's not so obvious is, that this glacier, like so many in Iceland, has an active volcano underneath it. This leads to accumulation of large amounts of meltwater under the glacier, which spills over and floods a large area of the southern coast every couple of years in a Jökulhlaup. The Lonely Planet guide to Iceland says that it was a couple of million cubic litres (sic!) in 1996… Wow… a couple of million m9 of water! That's a lot!

Coincidentially, what exactly I was suffering from when I drove past there and thought to myself “Who had the stupid idea of putting the glacier on top of a volcano anyway?”, I don't recall. I hadn't even had Hákarl that day…

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