Babes at the LSE
Whenever I return to my old university, it seems as if nothing has really changed. OK, they've done the place up and expanded a bit. But everything is still kind of in the same place.

Anyway, I was killing time between two top-level meetings in London today and popped into the Economist Bookshop and the LSE student shop. I found, to my astonishment, that amid the merchandise aimed at American alumni and over-eager undergraduates, there were girls' t-shirts emblazoned with the legend "lse babes". Lower case. lse babes. I was wondering what my alma mater had come to. In my day, any young lady sporting such an item would have been frogmarched off the campus by well-meaning feminists. Presumably this doesn't happen any more? I'm not sure whether this is a good or bad thing.
03.20.06 @ 05:19 PM PDT [link]

Mrs W's theory on the cold weather
She reckons that the Gulf Stream has switched itself off due to climate change, but they haven't told us yet. By the time we get to July, things will be fairly obvious and they'll have to fess up.
03.20.06 @ 05:12 PM PDT [link]

Websites you'll probably never need to visit 005
http://www.ehow.com/how_10965_compete-roping-event.html

Why do I have this feeling that if you were tempted to compete in a roping event, you wouldn't actually learn the ropes from a web page?
03.19.06 @ 04:05 PM PDT [link]

Food for thought 003
Marks & Spencer Belgian Milk Chocolate coated Californian Raisins. A deceptively simple and decidedly delicious combination of two of the world's best ingredients; sinfully smooth and rich Belgian milk chocolate, hiding some of the sweetest raisins there are, from California.

I'm sorry, but the copywriter who wrote this stuff really needs to be taken into a dark alley and force-fed sinfully smooth Belgian chocolate until they vomit. And even then, they may not vomit quite as much as the reader of the packaging.

Two of the world's best ingredients? What exactly does that mean? Taken from the list of the world's Top Twenty ingredients perhaps? "At number eighteen, we have the ever-versatile sugar. And creeping up the hit parade to number twelve, we find scrag end of mutton."

Another point. There's a time and a place for alliteration. But a 'decidedly' in front of 'delicious' is definitely dodgy and a don't-do, darling. Especially when you're lining up 'sinfully smooth' half a sentence later.
03.19.06 @ 04:01 PM PDT [link]

Food for thought 002
Rakusen's Matzos.

The big snack, low fat cracker for healthy appetites.

Matzos are ideal for those who prefer low fat diets.

With no added salt Matzos can help reduce your sodium intake.
03.19.06 @ 03:51 PM PDT [link]