Tag Archives: humorous paradox

Landing on the moon

What are they going to find up there that they can’t get down here?

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Beware of chess playing boyfriends

“To Marcel Duchamp, chess was a higher vocation than art: on his honeymoon he paid more attention to the game than to his bride. In revenge she glued his pieces to the board; divorce ensued.” New Statesman 7th October 2022 … Continue reading

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Let’s move on and not dwell on the past

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Slacker philosophy!

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A scene from ‘The Likely Lads’

Bob: When it comes to women you’re hardly Omar Sharif. Terry: If Omar Sharif lived in Gateshead I doubt he’d be Omar Sharif. A TV show set in north-east Britain of two working-class men

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Why diets fail……

I say: “I’m going on a diet.” And my stomach laughs

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17th century snowflakes were protected

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A philosophical question updated

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A Geopolitical Joke

A worldwide survey had only question which was: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” The survey was a huge failure. In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what … Continue reading

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Vox Populi

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