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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Haywood Jablome strikes again...


Anyone who watches The Simpsons will be aware of Bart’s regular calls to Moe at Moe’s Bar where he asks for someone whose name ends up having a double meaning. Example:

Bart: Is Oliver there?
Moe: Who?
Bart: Oliver Clothesoff.
Moe: Hold on, I'll check. (calls) Oliver Clothesoff! Call for Oliver Clothesoff!

Readers may also remember the classic scene in the movie Porky’s where the young guys ask the waitress to have someone named “Mike Hunt” paged.  See it at:
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Sir Archibald Clark Kerr

Warning:
The following post contains risqué language.

Back in June I posted an item about names which, when spoken, can sound quite rude. I mentioned the prank by the young people at Heathrow, the practice of giving the name Haywood Jablome to journos (and subsequently having that published)  and the paging of names by Bart Simpson. Read the post at:

I am indebted to my father in law, Noel, for bringing to my attention a similar item concerning a letter sent by Sir Archibald Clark Kerr many years ago. A little bit of research on the internet revealed the details.

Archibald Clark Kerr (above), 1st Baron Inverchapel, was born in Australia in 1882 and died in 1951. Having become a British diplomat, Sir Archibald served as the Ambassador to China 1938 to 1942, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union between 1942 and 1946 and to the US between 1946 and 1948.

Despite his many years of loyal service to Britain, his friendships with Stalin during WW2 and the Kaiser’s sister before WW1, and the fact that he was a disappointed suitor of the Queen Mother, he is today best remembered for a letter he wrote to Lord Pembroke in 1943 whilst he was Ambassador to Moscow.  The handwritten note on the letter indicates that the letter was released under the Freedom of Information Acy in 1990:

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Monday, April 6, 2015

Monday Miscellany: Odds, Ends and Personals

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Email from Rosie J about the Sojourner Truth post:

What a wonderful Bytes! Can't believe things were the way they were. We are so lucky! The story actually made me cry. I think there's no greater love than between a parent and child and to see that child being sold or just taken away is incomprehensible. 

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From Charles D:


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And a couple I came across on the net:


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You know those made up names that Bart Simpson uses to torment Moe by prank calling him at the bar and having him page the name (Hugh Jass, Amanda Hugginkiss, Seymour Butz), or that have appeared in news reports courtesy of unsuspecting journalists (the most well known being Heywood Jablome)?

The latest sucker to be caught was Channel 7 during its Good Friday Telethon to raise funds for The Royal Children’s Hospital. 

Mr Hugh G Rection promised a donation of $32.38 and Channel 7 duly showed the pledge on screen:


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In the news last week was the story of the Justin Bieber roast.

For those who don’t know what a roast is, it consists of a dozen or so celebrities making jokes, often cruel, vulgar and tasteless, about that evening’s guest “roastee”, who is then given the opportunity to respond.

Bieber’s roasters were host Kevin Hart along with Shaquille O'Neal, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Natasha Leggero, Hannibal Buress, Martha Stewart, Chris D'Elia, Jeff Ross, Pete Davidson and a special appearance from Will Ferrell as his Anchorman character Ron Burgundy. 

Most of the comments were entirely forgettable or offensive, but I did like the one about Martha Stewart, the well known 73 year old author and TV personality who was convicted of conspiracy relating to insider trading, obstruction and making false statements to federal investigators. In 2004 she received a 5 months jail terms and 2 years supervised release.

Martha Stewart at the roast

Natsaha Leggero at the roast

Most of the jokes, comments and utterances were tasteless and offensive, but the one I did find amusing was by Natasha Leggero:

"All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time." 
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Cakes and Buds



Driving home I was wondering what to post on Bytes. Contrary to what you might think, I don’t have a giant stockpile of items, although there are some longer items for future posting as a result of brief items having kept growing during writing. 

It was then that I received a text message from Byter Gabrielle: 

“I have a question I hope you can answer. I have heard many people use the term “he wants his cake and eat it too”. Of course I would want to eat the cake, who wouldn’t? Nip it in the bud is another one." 

Good point, Gabrielle – what is wrong with wanting to eat your cake once you have it. What else are you going to do with it? But to understand the proverb, you must go back in time and see how it has changed in the present. 

Some comments: 
  • The proverb was first recorded in 1546 by John Heywood in his “A Dialogue Containing the Number in Effect of All the Proverbs in the English Tongue.” Heywood (no relation to Heywood Jablome, the subject of previous Bytes items) recorded the proverb as “Would you both eat your cake and eat your cake?” 
  • John Davies in 1611 wrote “A man cannot eat his cake and have it still.” 
  • The phrase, as above, means “Do you both want to eat your cake and still have it afterwards? You can’t have both.” 
  • The clauses "eating one’s cake" and "having it too" became reversed in 1749, so that the proverb commonly became “have one’s cake and eat it too.” 
  • The meaning today remains the same, a modern equivalent being “you can’t have it both ways”. 
  • The pic above is of a birthday cake made by Byter Jess for my No 2 son Elliot. Jess does it as a sideline nad has made amazingly decorated cakes that are works of art. When it comes to Jess’s cakes, I do want to have them and eat them too. Anyone in Sydney who wants to engage Jess to make a cake that will be a unique centrepiece, drop me a line or post a comment. I will then get back to you. 
  • By the way moment: 
One Theodore J. Kaczynski (1942 - ) learned from his mother at an early age that the original proverb was eat/have, not have/eat. He used the eat/have terminology in an anarchist manifesto, which assisted the FBI to identify him as the Unabomber who, between 1978 and 1995 engaged in a US nation-wide bombing campaign that killed 3 and injured 23. 



As far as “nip in the bud” is concerned: 
  • The phrase comes from horticulture, referring to removal of buds from plants so as to stop further growth whilst the plant is still young. This then causes the plant to grow in other ways eg to become bushy. It has been extended to stopping or restricting development at an early or young state. 
  • The early use of the phrase used the word “bloom” rather than “bud”. 
  • In 1595 Henry Chettle's romance Piers Plainnes Seaven Yeres Prentiship contained the sentence "Extinguish these fond loues with minds labour, and nip thy affections in the bloome, that they may neuer bee of power to budde." 
  • The bud version first appears in 1607, in Beaumont and Fletcher's comedy of manners Woman Hater: "Yet I can frowne and nip a passion Euen in the bud." 
  • By the way moment: 
US author, poet, humorist and wit Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was once challenged to use “horticulture” in a sentence. 

She replied “You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
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Saturday, October 1, 2016

October 2016


Another month and Christmas coming closer.  As the northern hemisphere experiences Autumn, we in the southern hemisphere enjoy the delights of Spring.
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Each month Byter Brett R sends me a list of the special days for the coming month.

Just as Donald Trump said he was too much of a gentleman to mention certain things in the debate, with Huillary Clinton, which he then described as not having said, I will say that I am too much a gentleman to say that Brett heads his emails "That time of the month (again)." 

Brett's lists follwo, the daily ones being interactive, just click on.

Thanks Brett.

October, 2016 Bizarre and Unique Holidays

Month:
  • Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
  • American Pharmacist Month
  • Apple Jack Month
  • Awareness Month
  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month
  • Clergy Appreciation Month
  • Computer Learning Month
  • Cookie Month
  • Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  • Eat Country Ham Month
  • International Drum Month
  • Lupus Awareness Month
  • National Diabetes Month
  • National Pizza Month
  • National Vegetarian Month
  • National Popcorn Popping Month
  • Sarcastic Month
  • Seafood Month
Weekly Celebrations:
  • Week 1 Get Organized Week
  • Week 1 Customer Service Week
  • Week 2 Fire Prevention Week
  • Week 2 Pet Peeve Week
  • Week 3 Pastoral Care Week
October 2016 Daily Holidays, Special and Wacky Days:
1 International Frugal Fun Day - first Saturday of the month
1 World Card Making Day - first Saturday of the month
2 Oktoberfest in Germany ends, date varies
5 National Kale Day - first Wednesday of October
7 World Smile Day first Friday of month
10 Columbus Day - second Monday of month
12 Emergency Nurses Day- second Wednesday of month
12 National Fossil Day - Wednesday of Earth Sciences Week
12 Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day -Second Wednesday of month
14 National Dessert Day - take an extra helping, or two
14 World Egg Day  - second Friday of month
15 Sweetest Day Third Saturday of month
20 Brandied Fruit Day    
21 National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day find a recipe, too.
22 Make a Difference Day-  fourth Saturday of the month, neighbors helping neighbors.
23  Mother-In-Law Day - fourth Sunday in October
27 National Tell a Story Day - in Scotland and the U.K.
28 Frankenstein Friday - last Friday in October
31 Carve a Pumpkin Day - no surprise here

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Regular readers will be aware that I am a member of a weekly trivia team called Lazarus, although sometimes we change our name for that night for a bit of fun.  Recent examples: Ben Dover, Neil Down, Haywood Jablome, Far Kurnell (Kurnell is a suburb of Sydney), Far Queue and so on.

Trivia organiser and MC, Graham, aka Mr Trivia, also sends a monthly summary of events and his follows as well.

Thanks Mr T.

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