… is a twat.
Tom Cruise can command millions for his questionable acting skills in a movie.
He has frequently acted as a romantic lead.
I was talking recently to my sister-in-law (now don’t get me wrong here - I’m not carrying a clipboard and going round Manchester asking random women about the fanciability of Tom Cruise) but [...]
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Tom Cruise…
The IAF like girls.
84% of the children of Israeli air force fighter pilots are girls.
- The Science of Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
Explanations please!
Martin Gardner 1914-2010
I just heard that Martin Gardner died yesterday.
I used to love his Mathematical Games in some old copies of Scientific American I acquired. Well I say “love” but usually they tormented me. Due to a piece by him on fractals I taught myself complex arithmetic which was the thin end of a slippery slope [...]
Epicycle
My wife is apparently very good (for a starter) at “rotating around her own ring”.
What has she started doing?
And Sid James (that means you RAB) can stop cackling at the back!
What should Abdullah do?
There’s a big wedding this weekend in Gaza and Abdullah has been given the task of arranging the post-nuptial festivities. Abdullah takes this as a great honour and is a diligent man so he has a problem. It is of course traditional for the party to involve expending a fair few clips of AK-47 ammo [...]
Pineapple Rings
My wife introduced me to a new and strange sensation this morning. It involved pineapple rings.
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Right, now that the tittering at the back has ceased let me carry on…
Last night I had gammon with rings of the piney apple and very nice it was too. Thing is I had two rings from the tin and [...]
A Story
One lovely spring morn I was walking through one of the less salubrious parts of Leeds (as you can imagine there’s some pretty stiff competition on that score) and as I walked past an area of grass which boasted a passed out drunk snoring contentedly and clutching a 3l bottle of White Lightning cider the [...]
29/308,466,891
What’s that fraction about?
H/T Devil’s Kitchen - but don’t go there otherwise my game is up!
Puzzle
While since I posted a puzzle… I was thinking of that old chestnut - the Monty Hall problem - a simple weirdness in probability theory that I have seen floor professional mathematicians and as a student of mere physics who grokked it from the off that delighted me no end.
But now for something completely [...]
Card Counting Cats
Here we count cats. They also count us. And they also count cards…
H/T RAB.
Verbing Nouns
People verb nouns all the time… Especially American people who seem to trial them all the time. Such linguistic innovations always drag themselves onto these Britannic shores eventually. And I suspect we are hardly innocent ourselves though it’s dreadfully hard to tell who is really to blame in the age of the internet.
Anyway, most of [...]
Picture Puzzle
What is unusual about this image?
Human Resources
A thought experiment…
You run a small but growing business. As it is still quite small and you personally do the hiring and firing. You decide you need one more employee so you advertise and only two CVs make the final cut. So you interview both.
The first is well dressed black American who has the [...]
Puzzler
Purely in terms of numbers manufactured which company is the World’s largest manufacturer of tyres?
