This is taken from a competition in a newspaper, in which it was proposed that English should have male and female nouns. Readers were asked to assign a gender to nouns of their choice and to explain their reasoning. These were the best submissions and very clever too in our […]
The Best Funny hammer
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You might not know this, unless you are familiar with Latin based languages, like French, Spanish or Italian, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples: FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through […]
In between jobs on the building site, Murphy decides to go and look at tools at the local building supply store. He stops and picks up a hammer, and appears to be examining it really closely. “Don’t make these like they used to”, he tells the man at the trade […]
Most people know what a screwdriver or a hammer is for, but there are many hand tools which the novice doesn’t understand, nor the expert at times for that matter. This is a list of hand tools and their uses, explained in simple terms for the novice. WHile you experienced […]
Old Doctor Carver had reached a ripe old age, but he was still practicing medicine, and what is more, he still made house calls to his patients. One afternoon, he was called to the house of old Mr. and Mrs Tuttle. Mrs. Tuttle was in her bedroom, where her husband […]