Author Archives: odeboyz

Too much expertise to be comfortable

Posted on August 5, 2021 by odeboyz

A wine merchants chief wine taster died and they advertised for a replacement. A drunk applied for the job. The HR director gave him the standard tasting test beginning with a glass of wine. The drunk sniffed it, rolled it … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour | Tagged , | Leave a comment

The Unflappable Harold MacMillan: Athens 1944

Posted on August 5, 2021 by odeboyz

“MacMillan seems to have taken the daily risks with a mixture of unflappability and almost enjoyment. He and the Ambassador insisted, as a matter of principle, on using the official study, remarking in his memoirs only that ‘bullets came through … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Politics, War | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Chicken and Egg

Posted on August 2, 2021 by odeboyz
Posted in ecology, Humour | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Victor Hugo on Sewage

Posted on August 2, 2021 by odeboyz

Violating every rule of narrative, Hugo interrupts the climax of his great novel Les Misérables (1862) to hector the reader for fifteen pages about the Parisian sewer system. The city’s sewers discharged vast quantities of excrement into rivers, which carried … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Health, History, Literature | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

A Woody Allen Quip

Posted on July 29, 2021 by odeboyz

Interviewer: What do you think people will say about you in a hundred years? Woody Allen: He looks very good for his age.

Posted in Film, Health, Humour | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Immigration: Conservative Hypocrisy 1903, 1938, 2021

Posted on July 29, 2021 by odeboyz

1903 IMMIGRATION OF DESTITUTE ALIENS. HC Deb 26 February 1903 vol 118 cc938-77 Sir Howard Vincent (Conservative)1 In the first place, I should like to say most emphatically that this motion has nothing whatever to do with any religious question. … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, History, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Why exercise when you can photoshop?

Posted on July 26, 2021 by odeboyz
Posted in Health, Humour, photography | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Coco Chanel: Nazi Collaborator

Posted on July 26, 2021 by odeboyz

Chanel1 had always had a series of influential lovers of various nationalities, so it was natural that during the German occupation the lover should be German: Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, a diplomat with intelligence connections. After the war, Chanel, … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Paris, War | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Dying like Jesus

Posted on July 22, 2021 by odeboyz

As a preacher lay dying he thought he’d like to die like Jesus. He sent for his accountant and lawyer. When they came he held out his hands and motioned them to sit on either side of his bed. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Religion | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Book Review: Curtis Sittenfeld ~ American Wife (2008)

Posted on July 22, 2021 by odeboyz

This book is 635 pages long and a long read. Is it worth it? Unfortunately as I began this review I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t. This makes me feel stupid. The book isn’t a novel it’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Review | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment