John H
explains Statistics 101:
Mean is the meanest of averages. It's the average you get when you add up all the averages and divide them by themselves. "Mode" is French and means "the most fashionable number". "Median" means "strip of grass in the middle of the road" so you just pick the most boring number.
BHP
(especially funny, since she said it days ago):
Oh, the Sofitel, which is French-themed to the max, has stopped flying the French flag out front in order not to offend guests. I sometimes top in at the Sofitel to buy croissants. I hear they're being renamed "Liberty cholesterol death-bombs."
John H. in Natter, amidst cute wildlife stories. Some mockage of the English, all due respect to my homie Tony Blair, et alia.
This never would have happened if the wedding had been inside the church with God and not out here in the cheap showiness of nature.
I was once in the bush, on Stradbroke island, eating salami sandwiches, and this goanna about half the size of a crocodile climbed down out of a tree.
I threw him some salami. He liked it.
He came closer. I threw him some more. He liked it.
I thought it would be cool to see if he would eat out of my hand.
I held out some salami to him.
He would eat out of my hand, it turned out. Except it was not so much with the "out of"...
That's not the funny part. I'm nursing a bleeding finger and swearing, and this eight-year-old kid walks by.
"What's the matter with him?" he says.
"He tried to get a goanna to eat out of his hand" says my girlfriend.
"Oh" says the kid "is he English or something?"
Words to live by, from Hec in Bitches:
I've got some forward motion in my life now. Crap still happens, but it's hard to get knocked down if you're moving forward.
No. you can -- a good forward defensive kick to the st...
Hmm. I suspect I might be missing the point.
