Category Archives: Funny and Weird Stuff

Of Giraffe Tests and Swan Meat

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Foxworld

Besides Fox’s World, since 2007 I have also maintained a blog called Stormhorn.com dedicated to storm chasing and jazz saxophone. Ironically, two of that blog’s perennially favorite posts have nothing at all to do with either storms or jazz. Both are … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny and Weird Stuff | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Of Giraffe Tests and Swan Meat

Chain Letter Madness

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Foxworld

Remember chain letters? You’d receive one in the mail, unsolicited, and it would request that you make ten copies of it and mail them to people you knew. There were incentives for doing so, some positive and some negative. If … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny and Weird Stuff | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Chain Letter Madness

Grrrls Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Vowels: A Curmudgeonly Rant about Modern Words

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Foxworld

In his August 1, 2012, post in mental_floss, Lucas Reilly lists “35 Modern Words Recently Added to the Dictionary.” The dictionary in question is the British Oxford English Dictionary Online, and after looking over Reilly’s sampler of its newer members, … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny and Weird Stuff, Style and Grammar, Writing and Copywriting | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Grrrls Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Vowels: A Curmudgeonly Rant about Modern Words