IN THE EYE of the beholder

The Devil's Dictionary

If I was his hairdresser I'd need a good one of these.

This guy needed six of them and still they couldn't help him.

DEFINITION:

One skilled in circumvention of the law. (Devil's Dictionary)

One whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise as to legal rights and obligations in other matters (Merriam Webster Online)

IT AIN'T WHAT YOU DO ...

Do NOT translate Dutch documents here. When translating legal documents, an eye for detail is desirable. I would assume that the person who made this sign is not employed as a sworn translator by this firm, but the translators who are employed there walk under this sign every morning and every evening. I must admit I had used them twice before noticing this. I shall think twice before using them again.

ONE SCARED CAT

See the cat on the chair with my daughter? Look closely at the tiles. Listen until the very end of this very short video and you will hear one very scared cat indeed. What do you think happened to 1. the house? 2. the cat? Post as comments please.

MORE TO LIFE THAN FUN

A BAD CASE OF RISING DAMP
Well, I must say it makes a change for me to be taken so seriously.
Actually, the only time I get taken seriously is when I'm joking... or so it seems.
O well, there's more to life than fun, as my dear old grandma would probably have said, if I'd ever met her, that is.

Or is there? Maybe it's the Kesey in me that likes to poke fun, to cock-a-snook at things.Or maybe it was my education. Grammar schools in the 60's were frightful places, where you only survived if you cultivated a healthy disregard for almost everything except yourself.

Anyhow, I am of course indebted to my school for its wonderful libraries, which fed my brain far more than the hapless teachers had ever intended to. For those facilities, and the fact that I was educated in England, in English, I am truly grateful.

I'd like to add a little more recent background at this stage. I must point out that my wife is an Indonesian, and my daughter enjoys dual-nationality, aged five. When she's eighteen, she'll have to decide which nationality she'd like to hang on to, if any of that still matters by then, of course.

Thinking of Coming to Indonesia?

Fancy a constant 33 degrees C, all year round?

Come to Indonesia!

Fancy cheap accommodation?

Come to Indonesia!



Fancy growing webbed feet?

COME TO INDONESIA!