"Cuius testiculos habes, Habes cardia et cerebellum" If you have their balls, you have their hearts and minds.   “If you’ve ...

(The following post is lengthy, I make no apologies for that. As always, click on the images to enlarge.  Not all will enlarge.)   Byter...

  Patient: Doctor, doctor. I've come out in spots like cherries on a cake. Doctor: Ah, you must have analogy. A letter from G...

   Thank you to Byters Doug and Diane, who sent me complimentary emails (ie containing compliments, not that they were free), in response...

  I am presently reading Eamonn Duff’s book Sins of the Father , which was given to me for my birthday.   It is, to quote the words on th...

Let me share with you three personal anecdotes which have a wider, symbolic significance: #1: A Card - Yesterday I received a late Chri...

Canned Heat Slang term for Sterno, a commercial jellied alcohol used to heat food, typically placed beneath metal pans on a ban...

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Byter Enid sent me an email which included the following: I was at the Men's Workshop at Bowden Brae yesterday and said that I had re...

  "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." -           William Shakespeare J...

  Today’s Funny Friday is dedicated to my doc, David, who is also a personal friend and a subscriber to Bytes.   He is, to use an expressio...

      Abba Abba is "father" in Hebrew but the band claims that to be unintentional - rather it is an acronym f...

Knowing of my interest in quotations, my wife’s gifts to me for Christmas included two books of quotations.   The first is a 2009 small red ...

  An Answered Prayer I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems ...

  News report, 1 January 2012: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-01/rex-jackson-dies-aged-83/3754114 Rex Jackson dies, aged 83   Rex Ja...

  As we enter another new year, I am reminded, surprisingly, of the words of John Wayne.   I know that it’s easy to send him up, to regar...

     Anyone who has seen the movie 2012 will know that: ·          2012 will see the end of civilisation as we know it; ·          the M...

  The priest was waiting on Saturday afternoon for his usual parade of people coming to confession. In comes a man so drunk, he is stumbl...

  September:   "As for me running for president, look, there's a guy in office who is smarter than anyone you know, and nicer, a...

  "I'm not religious at all. I think faith is something that gives you strength. I believe in fate and I believe that things hap...