Posts archive for: 25 November, 2007
  • Funny mistakes supposedly made by schoolchildren

    As well as being funny, some of these comments are very clever and make a lot of sense.

    SCHOOL DAYS
    We had a longer holiday than usual this year because the school was closed for altercations.
    All teachers at our school are certified.
    The headmaster caned me only on rear occasions.
    Our school is ventilated by hot currants.

    • BOOKS AND WORDS
    A fairy tale is something that never happened a long time ago.
    In lbsen's Ghosts, Oswald dies of congenial syphilis.
    Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, but he mostly lived at Windsor with his merry wives. This is quite usual with actors.
    John Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
    An epitaph is a short sarcastic poem.
    Poetry is when every line starts with a capital letter and doesn't reach the right side of the page.
    Polonius was a mythical sausage.
    Letters in sloping type are in hysterics.
    Emphasis in reading is putting more distress in one place than another.
    An abstract noun is one that cannot be heard, seen, touched or smelled.

    • GEOGRAPHY
    A consonant is a large piece of land surrounded by water. Britain has a temporary climate.
    In some rocks there are to be found the fossil footprints of fishes.
    The Dutch people use water power to drive their windmills.

    • HISTORY
    King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery.
    The wife of a duke is a ducky.
    Joan of Arc was burned to a steak.
    Another Greek myth was Jason And The Golden Fleas.
    Joan of Arc was Noah's sister.
    The King wore a scarlet robe trimmed with vermin.
    In the middle of the 18th-century, all the morons moved to Utah.
    Louis XVI was gelatined to death.
    Hitler's instrumentality of terror was the Gespacho.

    • POLITICS
    When Caesar was assassinated, he is reported to have said "Me too, Brutus!"
    King John ground the people down under heavy taxis.
    President Carter faced the "Iran Hostess Crisis".
    The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. became global in power, but Europe remained incontinent.

    • SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
    Methane, a greenhouse gas, comes from the burning of trees and cows.
    A phlegmatic person is one who has chronic bronchitis.
    A circle is a figure with no corners and only one side.
    Al Chemy was a man who discovered chemistry.
    Crude oil is a vicious substance.
    To germinate is to become a naturalised German.
    The Earth makes a resolution every 24 hours.
    If teeth are not cleaned, plague is the result.

    • RELIGION
    The Jews were a proud people, but always had trouble with unsympathetic Genitals.
    The seventh commandment is "Thou shall not admit adultery".
    Solomon had 300 wives and 700 cucumbers.
    The Papal bull was a mad bull kept by the Pope in the Inquisition to trample on Protestants.
    The Philistines are islands in the Pacific.
    The natives of Macedonia did not believe in Paul, so he got stoned.
    Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican.

    • ANIMALS
    To keep milk from turning sour: keep it in the cow.
    Marsupials are poached animals.
    The adder is a poisonous snack.
    An octogenarian is an animal which has eight young at birth.
    The largest mammals are to be found in the sea because there is nowhere else to put them.

    • GENERAL STUDIES
    As he walked through his room he heard the sound of heavy breeding.
    In the Middle Ages people lived in mud huts with rough mating on the floor.
    The 19th-century was when people stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.
    Madame Pompadour gained in power while being placed under the king.
    Merchants appeared and roamed from town to town exposing themselves and organising big fairies in the countryside.
    The Mona Lisa was the most beautiful woman ever to be laid on canvas.
    A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population.
    Gonads are a tribe of wandering desert people.
    Adolescence is the stage between puberty and adultery.

  • The real reason why England lost at Wembley last week

    Croatia rose to the occasion in their crucial Euro 2008 defeat of England - after an apparent X-rated gaffe by an English opera singer at Wembley.
    Tony Henry belted out a version of the Croat anthem before the 80,000 crowd, but made a blunder at the end.
    He should have sung 'Mila kuda si planina' (which roughly means 'You know my dear how we love your mountains').
    But he instead sang 'Mila kura si planina' which can be interpreted as 'My dear, my penis is a mountain'.

    Now Henry could be one of the few Englishmen at the Euro 2008 finals in Austria and Switzerland as Croatian fans adopt him as a lucky omen.
    They believe his mistake relaxed their chuckling players, who scored an early goal in the 3-2 win that put Croatia top of the group and knocked out England.
    The singer, who hails from St Albans in Hertfordshire but now lives in Inverness, Scotland, has performed at stadiums around the world.
    He was once known as the Voice of Arsenal after Gunners fans were impressed with his rendition of Abide with Me before the FA Cup final in 2003 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
    Henry came unstuck when he sang Lijepa Nasa Domovino (Our Beautiful Homeland) at a rain-swept Wembley on Wednesday night.
    "I can't even defend myself at the end of the day. It was apparently the last line on the second verse which I made the mistake on," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
    "Coming to Wembley and the stadium, it must have got to me, is all I can say.
    "It was the last thing that I would intentionally do, and all I can say is if I have offended any Croatians, then they have my deepest apologies."

    On the contrary, Henry is becoming a cult hero in Croatia, but denies he played a part in England's exit.
    "I can't take the blame for that. The last thing I would do is brag about my parts like that - especially to make it so public," said Henry.
    BBC TV presenter Adrian Chiles, whose mother is Croatian, acknowledged the language could pose problems.
    "As a speaker of poor Croatian, I have a proud record of getting things calamitously wrong," said the Match of the Day 2 host.
    "My personal best was telling a campsite owner that I had a small rat (mali stakor) rather than small tent (mali shator). However, Tony's put all my lifetime's efforts into the shade now."
    Zeljka Tomljenovic, secretary of the British-Croatian Society, added: "I don't envy the guy at all because the pronunciation is so difficult.
    "He had a big challenge, to sing the national anthem in a language he knows, I assume, nothing about."
    Henry's agent Douglas Gillespie said it was a genuine mistake, but admitted the publicity could boost his career.
    "He's been given the lyrics correctly, but he has enough trouble with English, never mind Croatian," joked Gillespie.
    "There were 80,000 people in the crowd and millions of people watching. It was just the pressure of the moment.
    "He did sing it very well and made a very, very small mistake for someone doing his best and singing in a language that is alien to him. If you've ever tried to speak Croatian, it's very difficult.
    "The Croatians think it's great, and they've invited him to come over and sing at Euro 2008, and asked if he will be their mascot."

  • Don't get sick in South Africa

    South African Health - Pelonomi Hospital

    "For several months, our nurses have been baffled to find a dead patient in the same bed every Friday morning" a spokeswoman for the Pelonomi Hospital (Free State, South Africa) told reporters. "There was no apparent cause for any of the deaths, and extensive checks on the air conditioning system, and a search for possible bacterial infection, failed to reveal any clues." "However, further inquiries have now revealed the cause of these deaths. It seems that every Friday morning a cleaner would enter the ward, remove the plug that powered the patient's life support system, plug her floor polisher into the vacant socket, then go about her business. When she had finished her chores, she would plug the life support machine back in and leave, unaware that the patient was now dead. She could not, after all, hear the screams and eventual death rattle over the whirring of her polisher.
    "We are sorry, and have sent a strong letter to the cleaner in question. Further, the Free State Health and Welfare Department is arranging for an electrician to fit an extra socket, so there should be no repetition of this incident. The inquiry is now closed."

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