At least the maple syrup supply is well guarded!
Maple Special Forces? The Syrup Seals?
I saw this at a shopping mall in Bahrain today.
Re: Placenta in aisle 10.
Well, how was it?
11 minutes to tell us japanese pencils are superior?
Here is an odd thing, and a mystery. I found this little guy, about six-inches tall, in a charity shop in the UK.
Anyone got a clue as to who he is or what he represents?
There was a faded, unreadable sticker on the front, but now the only clue is the “Join Now” wording on the base.
Pls ignore the Eat Frazzles bit. I can’t remember the joke for the life of me.
I always used the pointy end of the pencil to engage with the gear teeth and wind the tape, or failing that, maybe a scissor blade or the clip of a pen cap. It slipped sometimes, but it usually worked well enough. I never stuck the whole pencil in the hole. (Guess I never read that part of the manual either.)
It’s funny how this joke travels. I said something to a very close friend of mine–a gay male–about him always flirting with me “like you don’t already own a toaster.” And he just looked at me like “what on earth are you talking about.” He’s pretty plugged in to cultural stuff, but even after I explained it to him he said he’d never heard it.
Leave that sentient AI alone a mo and fix those racist chatbots first
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I notice the company lawyer has now wandered off down the corridor where he couldn’t possibly hear this conversation in sufficient detail to replay it in a courtroom …
Maybe someone from a famous speech at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London?
To be fair, I liked it, but honestly don’t get it.
I thought you were simply being deliciously abstract.
A friend of mine suggested speaker’s corner.
That’s as far as we got before the frazzles joke, which I still can’t remember.
I tried a Google Reverse Image search, got nothing.