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Children you have been betrayed. Ok, so maybe that's laying it on a bit strong, but, I did find out a curiously trivial and random fact about two famous childerns authors today, you see, I noticed a new book in the book store, and thought, hey I read them when I was a kid, the author can't still be writing, he must be dead now. Cast your minds back to childhood... can you remember the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew? They were really popular when I was a kid, don't know if anyone else remembers them? Anyway, their authors, Franklin W DIxon and Carolyn Keene don't exist, never did, nope, neither are they psudonym's, it turns out that the books are written by various different people and that the authors names were just invented by the publishing syndicate... as I said, Children, you have been betrayed! Yes, its random, yes its trivial, yes the information is of no use to anyone, but, I am inbetween lectures and I have to write something! |
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16.10.03 14:16 |
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It's all about the food... Every so often an invention comes along which has the power to revolutionise everything... the wheel, sliced bread, the automobile, spam... you know the sorts. Well, one of these occured at the start of the 1970's... Concorde. Sure it could travel at Mach 2, on the edge of space, it could travel ten miles in the time it took to pour your champagne, but that wasn't all. You see, you travel concorde from London to New York and you arrive before you have left, think about that slowly... it not only adds two hours to your day, but it allows you to have two breakfasts. What a great invention... think about it... Sure it was an extremley elegant aircraft, it was the fastest, it handled like a jet fighter and took more technology than it took the americans to land a man on the moon, but lets not lose site of the cullinary implications... two breakfasts y'all! We are english, we love our breakfast, what are we supposed to do now? Get on a trundling old 747 and take 8 hours to do the same flight? How ridiculous... you miss out on the extra breakfast and on the champagne. Someone needs to sort this issue out, the dawn of a new era in breakfast consumption has been reversed, and I blame the USA... See the story goes that because they couldnt make it work and we could, they didnt like it, but that ain't the whole story. It's obvious when you think about it. You see, while it enabled us to cross to America and have two breakfasts, those glutonous yanks worked out... "if we are five-hours behind, and the flight takes three hours... We miss a meal... Those Limey's are trying to make us eat less!"... And so, America went with her stomach and rejected the greatest aircraft the world will ever see. Concorde, we will miss you, New York Bagel's, we will miss you to! Grrrrrrrrr.... |
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25.10.03 12:45 |
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