Submersible Motorcycles

Is it me, or is there something just mildly amusing about this sign?

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Aye Eye, Captain

Being lazy, I always go for the easiest pronunciation of something, which is difficult when you find yourself saying words such as Bremsstrahlung, so I don’t understand why some people go for the long drawn out aye instead of plain old i (as in ‘Dan is a prick.’)
Aye-rack and ant-eye are examples, although, ant-eye gets [...]

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In Your Eye

Sports terms.
They're so enlightening. So overused. So curiously appropriate.
In basketball, we refer to shooting and hitting a three-point shot while someone guards you closely, "Popping a three in your eye."
You can also "blind them."
Or "light them up."
You can also "flush" the ball when you dunk it. Or "yoke" it.
Put a good move on someone and [...]

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(In The End)

At the end of the day, it's night…or tomorrow even.
Nothing else.
(I'm just as guilty) 

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Mind How You Go

A lot of villages have signs up just as you enter, telling you, "Please drive carefully."
What you don't see often is a sign on the other side of the village thanking you for driving carefully.
Is this because thanking you for driving carefully through the village implies that you can do whatever the hell you want [...]

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Hot ‘n’ Humid

Sorry for the lack of posts. It's just that I can be…even more lazy than usual when we get our nine days of annual unbearably hot weather.
We're ready for a good thunderstorm. Some neighbouring regions've had them already (lucky bastards) but oh no, not here.
Here're three words somtimes used to describe hot and [...]

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It Just Doesn’t Sound (Write?)

When we talk about writing letters, us Brits have a certain…overly long way about asking people to send us mail:
“Send a letter to me.”
“Write me a letter.”
Whereas some other nations are somewhat more economic with words:
“Write me.”
Call me old fashioned but I like the long-winded approach:
“Go forth and reproduce” is sometimes a better way of [...]

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Nick, nick: A verb AND a noun

Jim Davidson's (British 80's stand-up comedian) catch-phrase used to be "nick,nick".  You'd hear him say it more than a few times in a show.
You see, he often got nicked himself, and I don't necessarily mean with a razor blade.
When you get nicked, you get taken down the nick. 
Furthermore, some people get nicked for nicking things.
Usage [...]

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