Archive for the ‘Rules for life’ Category

Rules for life. Number five in an occasional series.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Sometimes expensive foods don’t taste better, they just hurt your gums more.

See Kettle Chips, crusty bread

Rules for life. Number four in an occasional series

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

As a game of Trivial Pursuit continues, the probability of a player accusing another of getting “all the easy questions” approaches 1.

(With apologies to Mike Godwin, author of Godwin’s Law.)

Rules for life. Number three in an occasional series

Sunday, September 6, 2009

There is no need to take seriously any country that has a fish* on its currency.

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Rules for life. Number two in an occasional series

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Take care to walk through the correct door in a crematorium.

Rules for life. Number one in an occasional series

Monday, August 13, 2007

Never engage your Tunisian barber in a conversation about capital punishment.