workwordnamemadnessmashup

Louis Lewis?! Why would you do that to your kid? Why!?

Chocolate Consultant. Best.Job.Ev0r!

Doctor Hittman! His initials are disturbing too: GBH. Hope he wasn't into nominative determinism..

P. Ong! That stinks..

King Sze Ho. Ok, to my initial cursory glance that was hilarious.

There's a place called Mad in Hungary. I think I need to visit..

This guy was Batman! Greatest job description ev0r! (yes I know it's an Army thing.. let me have my delusions, ok?)

Sweetest thing anyone's said to me lately: "Hope your Friday is kind to you. Tell me if it's not and I'll slash it's tires."

top 10 capital city names

Ulaanbataar
Adis Ababa
Tashkent
P'yongyang
Ashgabat
Havana
Paramaribo
Rjekyavik
Damascus
Khartoum

Best Batman Joke Ever

Monkeys!

(props to Linkmachinego)

top 10 albums 2005

In no particular order:

Mesmerize - System Of A Down
Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes
Arular - M.I.A.
Frances The Mute - The Mars Volta
In Case We Die - Architechture in Helsinki
Guero - Beck
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations - Eels
Welcome To Jamrock - Damien Marley
A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets

Best Rediscovery Of An Old Album (A Tie):
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Shadows on a Flat Land - Darktower

Best Album That I Haven't Heard Yet:
Based On A True Story - Fat Freddy's Drop

Most Overhyped Twaddle:
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Most Eagerly Awaited 2006 Release:
The Life Pusuit - Belle & Sebastian

back at the coal face..

There were only three of us on this floor all of yesterday and I fondly assumed that the rest of the week was going to be similarly blissfullyquiet.

How wrong I was.

Typical really: the first person to come back from holiday is the guy with the persistant hacking cough.

I can't help but wish Santa had stuffed a Christmas stocking down the fucker's throat...

*gobsmacked*

You really may not want to look at this..

Why? Oh god, why?!

names roundup

Elefant! Great name. But very unfortunate if you happened to be morbidly obese..

Evelyn M Barrass: E.M. Barrass.. Geddit? *chortle*
Yeah, I'm easily amused.

Great first name: Wolf. Shame he was a chartered accountant.

Oh dear: Joe Semaan.
Still, it could have been worse - like his brother Chuck Semaan...

Dirk Spek - and he was married to Wilhelmina Owiehand. Sometimes names are just too bizarre..

For all those who remember the Goon show: Ying Tong.

Coxhead! *snigger*

Peter Kriss! Does the rest of Kiss know? Or care?

Vader?!
Who knew Darth's real name was John? How boring.. no wonder he changed it to Darth.
I wonder if it was a speech impediment and he really meant to say his name was 'Darcy'? Rumour has it he was a big Jane Austen fan..
Heh, his dad's name was Rudolph which adds more credence to the Darcy hypothesis..

Finally, a brilliantly Antipodean name: Tim Tam.
Well, originally from Vietnam but I'm sure he was made most welcome in Australia. And only occasionally had both ends bitten off and coffee sucked through him (if you're not from these parts you wont get that but hey, just go with it)

tedium

God I'm bored..
Freakin' bored.
Boredy boredy bored..
So bored that if my screen wasn't so visible from the door I'd be playing solitaire.
I'm that bored.
Did I mention how bored I am?
Well I'm bored.
On a bored scale of 1 to really bored I'm so bored I can't even measure it.
Well past the boiling point of boredom.
Off the Boredchter scale of boredness: the scale developed by Heinrich Boredchter, an accounts clerk grade IV in a rubber band factory who first isolated the smallest particle of boredom known to Man.
Commonly known as the boron.
Known to be closely associated with the densest known particle: the moron .
In fact morons are known to emit large quantities of borons.
Making everything in the immediate vicinity boronactive.
If only this source of boredom could be harnessed and used for good not evil...

God I'm bored.

dawn chorus

Songs that have lept, unbidden, into my mind upon waking recently:

Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine - Spoon
Sky Saw - Brian Eno
Alone Again Or - Calexico
Decepticon - Le Tigre
Sideways - Aimee Mann
The Specialist - Interpol
Loyal - Dave Dobbyn
Squares - Beta Band
This Charming Man - The Smiths

Jungian hell

Have you ever gone to work on a Monday morning and encountered a workmate you really don't like much then had the awful realisation that she figured prominently in a rather vivid Roman-style orgy dream you had the other night..?
Anyone?
No?
Just me then..
*shudder*
I feel like I need to shower and scrub all over with steel wool..