8 January 2006

Good morning to you all and be prepared to share in a fantastic discovery which I have recently unearthed and one which will undoubtedly bring fame and fortune to us all. (Well, I can see how it will bring fame although I must confess the “fortune” bit may not be so obvious at the moment but I am sure that the more financially astute amongst us will find a way of converting this discovery into hard currency). I am already preparing to write it up for New Scientist and other leading scientific journals but I thought I should let you all in on the news before it becomes more widely known. Continue reading “8 January 2006”

8 January 2006 – Amusements

A man is lost in the desert. He used up the last of his water three days ago and he’s lying, gasping, on the sand, when in the distance he suddenly hears a voice calling “Mush! Mush!”

Not trusting his ears he turns his head and there it is again, closer this time — “Mush! Mush!”

Propping himself up on one elbow he squints against the sun and sees, of all things, an Eskimo in a fur coat driving a sled with a team of huskies across the dunes. Thinking that it’s a hallucination, he blinks and shakes his head, but it’s for real! He painfully lifts one arm and in a cracked voice calls, “He-elp!”

The Eskimo pulls the sled up by him, the huskies panting in the heat, and he says to the Eskimo, “I don’t know what you’re doing here, or why, but thank God you are! I’ve been wandering around this desert for days, my water’s all gone and I’m completely lost!”

The perspiring Eskimo looks down at him and says, “You think YOU’RE lost!” Continue reading “8 January 2006 – Amusements”