I was given this today by one of my students.
I am posting a link to a web site for you to try. Have a go at answering each question before revealing the answer and then go on to the next. See what you score.
.... I thought it was quite funny and can imagine using it with my kids.... but the Americans seem to have gone one further, because I found this
It is a management tool for sale called "How Do You Fit A Giraffe Into A Refrigerator? Video Purchase" and it being sold for $759... which is about £400! HOW MUCH?????!!!!! That's a lot of money to see stupid animation of some jungle animals
hehe Still, Management tools for management tools

I ave just watched that item on Watchdog about that bastard ticket website Londoncitytickets.co.uk who have been selling tickets to customers and not sending the tickets- and afterwards not then being unwilling to refund the money. One guy on the show said he paid £1300 for Led Zeppelin tickets.
Now I hate the way that concert tickets are sold in this country. Tickets for big shows are only ever released on a weekday at 9am! Being a teacher I am half way through my first class and am never available at that time... and then tickets sell out in minutes. I never have a bloody chance. Which is why I have to resort to other sources. I have recently seen the Spice Girls and saw Take That last year also seen Kylie and the Scissor Sisters. But I normally have to buy tickets from ebay. And I normally have to pay over the face value price And then I am never entirely sure if I will get the tickets

Is there a better way to give everyone a better chance to get hold of tickets? It seems to me that companies/touts pay dozens of people to be on the phone exactly at 9 on the day they are sold so as to get as many as possible. Gives us normal folk no chance!

Can you spot it?

{Neither did the Goalie}

I mentioned a while ago about this past Greek evening where the Boss- My OH's Boss said he accidentally undercharged us (well we think he didnt accidentally undercharge us, but was generous on the night and then his wife found out and made an issue of it). Well it sounds like the wife is asking for the extra £10 a head. Now really they should ask me for our money seeing as I was the one that paid it- not my OH. Well it sounds like the Boss's wife (whom I shall refer to as Godzilla) is suggesting that she take the £20 out of my OH's wages.

I think this is illegal. Is it?

I was reading Znethru's blog yesterday and I found out that he has never seen any Star Wars movies. And I was listening to the radio on the way home and some guy had never ever seen a Bond Movie! And I was talking to a sixth former at work who has never seen a Monty Python film. And I have never ever seen a Godfather movie!

So my question to you is... is there a movie series, which is considered to be unmissable, that you have never seen....

A meme borrowed from I am Xenon. A snapshot of time
Now: 6:15pm Sunday

48 Hours Ago: I was getting ready to go out to the Greek evening in town

36 Hours Ago: I was just stirring a my OH had to get up and go to work

24 Hours Ago: I think I was watching the Choir which we recorded on Friday night

18 Hours Ago: Asleep

12 Hours Ago: Asleep

6 Hours Ago: I was cooking my lunch - Chile and rice

3 Hours Ago: Playing Oblivion

2 Hours Ago: My OH had just come and and we lit the fire

1 Hour Ago: Surfing t'internet

Now: Blogging whilst watching dancing on Ice

1 Hour from now: Dancing on ice will probably still be on. Maybe eating dinner- meatless burgers

2 Hours from now: No doubt watching TV- possible Antiques Roadshow

3 Hours from now: Probably the dancing on ice

6 Hours from now: Asleep - I hope

12 Hours from now: Ignoring my alarm clock

18 Hours from now: Teaching velocity time graphs

24 Hours from now: Hopefully back home after a hard day at work- unless there is a meeting I have forgotten about and then I will be stuck in traffic

36 Hours from now: ignoring my alarm clock again

48 Hours from now: opening a bottle of wine....

So Friday night's greek evening went really well. WE went with some friends and had a really good night out- down several bottles of wine (between us) and enjoyed some lovely food. And the owner (my OH's boss) undercharged us- we thought it was a bit of a friends discount
When my OH went to work on Saturday, he said to her- I think I made mistake and undercharged you- my OH thinks he was hoping that she would agree to make up the balance for us two. Is he allowed to do that? He made up a bill and we paid it- can someone add another twenty quid after the event? It doesn't matter to me too much but I think he is playing my OH's good nature a bit too much- he couldn't do anything about it with a 'normal' customer.
Anyway- we got back at about midnight and we were very tiddly- and Saturday morning was a touch... raw
Today I haven't done too much = played Oblivion. I managed to solve a glitch that had occured where I had to kill someone off where I was trying to keep my infamy at zero. I enchanted a mages hood with a shock spell and reverse pick-pocketed the NPC's. Those dumb computer characters didn't realise that there was a strange hood in there possession, put it on and when it started killing them- they didn't even take it off! (Okay- do I win a geek award?)

There are very few TV shows that I look forward to- {Doctor Who and Torchwood aside} but I have to say that I am really looking forward to the next series of the Choir. We watched it last year and last night there was a 'one year after' program about it. We went out so we recorded it and have just watched it! And it has really got me in the mood for the new series

From the BBC Website

Featuring the highs and lows of ever-patient choirmaster Gareth Malone, the series follows Gareth as he tackles, in his usual head-on way, the task of teaching choral singing in Lancaster School – a large boys'-only state school in Leicester.
Gareth has dreams of involving the whole school and leading a 100-strong, all-boys' choir out on the stage at London's Royal Albert Hall.
The problem is, at Lancaster, singing in assembly was abandoned in the Seventies, and most of the boys who attend think singing is definitely best left for the girls.

It's on next Friday folks

It's been one of those days.....

OH: So have Liverpool played today?
Me: Yes
OH: Who'd they play?
Me: Havant
OH: They Haven't played?
ME: Yes
OH: So have they or haven't they?
Me: Both
OH: So they haven't played?
Me: Yes they have
OH: The have?
Me: Yes Havant
Oh: Go Away, you stupid man

It is Friday night.
And we are going out... It's another Greek Night, IN fact it was just over a year ago that we went to our first one

This morning my journey to work annoyed me. Not only do I have to negotiate this roadworks just outside my house, but they closed one of the main roads I take- I had to find another route Grrrr!
But I ay moan now- at least I am indoors. Which is more than I can say for tomorrow night- because there is a parents evening. I am booked solidly from 5:30 to 8:30. Grrr.
An please- this is a note for all parents, we cannot always give you the time that you want!
Kid: Have you got anything near 7 o clock?
Me: I am fully booked from 5:30 to 8:30- I have no gaps
Kid: What about 6:30?
Me: I am fully booked from 5:30 to 8:30- I have no gaps
Kid: SO there is nothing between 6 and 7 left at all?
Me: I am fully booked from 5:30 to 8:30- I have no gaps. No gaps at all
Kid: Can I see what time's you've got left?
Me: Okay
Kid: So you've got no gaps at all then
Me: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

SO another tiring night ahead

ONe good thing.... I have started applying for jobs
One bad thing''' I got a rejection today. PAH! They were smelly anyway!

There's a bonus if you can pull off a big one! {Word that is}

How did we ever survive without Sky+ before. Tonight we watched Strictly come dancing on ice with celebrities on ice dancing and recorded antiques roadshow. But AR finished at 8pm wheras SCCOIWCOID finished at 7:50. but with the technology of the little magic box, you can start watching a recorded program before it has finished recording. WOOHOO! I bet the Betamax never did that!
Talking of SCCOIWCOID, I am liking Suzanne Shaw and and Chris Fountain- I think one of those will win. I am surprised Greg Rednecks-ski isn't doing better. And what is this 'poo on a stick' that the judges mentioned? Sounds like a piece of Iceland party food as promoted by Kerry Katatonia!
I am having trouble with Oblivion. Anybody out there played it? Anybody finished the Mages guild quests? I am trying to get through without murdering anyone but I have come to a quest where I may have to {information at a price}. Damn! I may have to forego this set of quests! I certainly don't want to restart- It has taken me ages to get to level 34! OH I know what I could do- I could ask that person at work- start a conversation!

How is everyone this fine evening? Are we all happy? Are are we all getting that "That's Life" feeling.... {I wish I hadn't mentioned it now}

Oh and I really must get my Bloscars form in

Last night I went out with my mate for dinner and a drink. We went to one of our locals which is now under new management. In fact it has changed hands several times over the past few years. When we got there, there was only two other people in the bar! It was dead! The menu was sparse.... there was no Lamb on it! I always have lamb when I go out! So I had to make do with Steak and Ale pie- which in it's defense was very nice- and there was a nice portion of chips with it, which is more than could be said for my friend, who ordered steak and chips- and the chips that he had were those poncy pretentious 'Jamie Oliver' Nouveau Cuisine style chips where you only get nine of them and they are stacked like chunky Jenga Blocks!
Through the evening we were becoming increasingly aware of some Banjo music! "That sounds like live music" I thought "Surely it has to be. After all, no-one is actually going to choose to play this as a CD" And sure enough, there was a folk band! And the pub had filled out slightly. In the end it turned out to be not such a bad night

Andy Warhol said in 1968: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

Have you ever appeared on TV?
I was in the nativity on broadcast Sunday Morning Worship one year when I was at school. More recently my leg was on a quiz show

Ever been on the radio?
Nope. Although I think my name was once read out when I wasn't listening

Do you have a friend who is famous?
No. I don't really have many friends

Have you ever had your name in the papers?
Just a local rag, and it was work related.... and they spelled it wrong

Have you ever been in trouble with the law?
Never, although my sister did once pretend to be a policeman (!!) to try and score me into owning up to something. She went upstairs and phoned downstairs

Any school friend gone on to be famous?
Well, I was at school with Katy Hill from Blue Peter and I ang in the choir with the girls from Alisha's Attic. But that's it.

Tonight is last Friday.... because last Friday I was supposed to go out for a meal (which really means drink) with my mate, but due to me being on anti-biotics, we postponed it. Well I'm not going to waste a good night out by not drinking, am I?

And who knows- when I'm out, I may spy Espee's OH. Although I am having a lot of trouble with female attention of late..... due to the dancing. Last week Mary was thrilled that I was there as she was a single woman. "Well if you;re going to be here I can come again. We can be partners" She said. I just smiled nervously. Because just before Christmas it was Storming Norma "Perhaps if you want to go to a dance on your own and I am on my own, perhaps we could go together"
And before that was the shaky lady whose name I have forgotten. What would happen if they all came to the class at the same time? I may be in too much demand for my own good

I'd never have thought I would say this but..... I miss the Tiger Lady. At least you know where you were being mauled stood. (Normally by an open window!!!!)

Something odd happened to me today... Someone in the staffroom spoke to me and we had a conversation that lasted for about twenty minutes.... about the game Oblivion! I think that's the longest convo I have had with someone from work about a non work related topic.

Maybe in another 15 months I may have another one

So, the dance classes have started again.... why do they make women so short? The Partner I had was tiny. Where is Penny Lankylegs Stewart when you need her.....{Hold in I have just slipped into a daydream)
We did the tango again today- well we tried. I got pushed around from pillar to post. "Stand straight. Bend back. No forward, no back. No forward at the top back the the middle.... Now you're all twisted!" I tell ya, my body looked like some type of deformed twiglet!

ON a different clown related note. I was forced to be a clown once. I hated it!

taken from the show as sent to me by a friend

This news report is stating something that I have known for ages. Children do not like clowns

The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found all the 250 patients aged between four and 16 they quizzed disliked the use of clowns, with even the older ones finding them scary.

But still, the balance is restored after a survey of 100 clowns showed that they really didn't like kids!

Now there is this woman at work who has put on a little bit of weight. I have noticed today that there were a few other staff making a bit of a fuss of her today, so perhaps she is pregnant. Now I don't want to be rude and be the only one not congratulating her, but should I?
After all, I could be expressing pleasure when all she's done is get fatter!

Starting- the road works just outside my house on the road I have to take to work. Thankfully tonight it didn't seem too bad. I just hope that continues
Ending- my anti-biotics. I have done the complete course, a whole week. And has it cleared up my man flu? Has it buggery! I will just have to hope that it goes of it's own free will. Maybe in a month if I still have the symptoms I will go back to the doctor and try again.
Also ended- Silent Hill Origins. I finished that PSP game. It was good fun, I love the puzzles in it, but not so much the monsters that jump on your groin and wiggle 'til you bleed- I get enough of that at home!
Never ending- PS3 game Oblivion. I have been playing it for months. I keep finding loads of quests. Luckily my character is quite powerful now.
Non-starter- my job hunting. I really should pul my finger out (However it got stuck there I will never know)

... in fact the ask for help came from my boss, the HM! Which is odd because he never really talks to me.
He approached me this morning and we had a brief chat about Liverpool's performance.. Blah Blah Blah. Then he said "In fact, there is something I would like you to help me with"
My interest was piqued.
"I am looking for an ex Arsenal player that is doing really badly"
EH?
Well apparently he has a fantasy football league team made up of ex players of Arsenal- his reason being is that he was hoping the team would do badly and hence prove the point that when players leave Arsenal they get worse!
So here is my question for you....
can you think of any Ex Arsenal (midfield) players that are performing really badly this season. He may be impressed with me and make me honorary 'person you can now approach' in the staff room!

I was flicking around the web (as you do) and I came across this site

Now this web site is dedicated to selling big pants! But it is the pledge I was interested in. It says "If we can't sell knickers in size 6XL then it's not on this site"

Is that an odd pledge? Surely if it's not on the site, which is their web site which sells their products, then they don't sell it! Therefore if they don't sell it then it's not on the site! Is that a pledge?

PS: Don't ask me how I got to this site- suffice to say that it was an eventual link from someone else's posts. I won't name names!

And now for one of the most ridiculous and pointless questions ever asked....
"Is that what I think it is?"
How on earth are you supposed to answer that?
"Well considering that I am not a mind reader it is impossible for me to answer that question"
so the only thing you can say is "Well what do you think it is?"
And then they have to tell you..
"Is it a --insert name of bizarre object here-- "
Well why didn't you just ask that in the first place? It kind of makes the original question redundant and pointless...... a bit like this blog post.

We have been packing tonight. Just a few bit and bobs- mostly books and DVD's. Why don't they make boxes just the right size to fit DVD's in? There's always a little bit of a gap at the side... and DVD packaging of different sizes doesn't help!
And Brown tape- I am sure that was stickier when I was younger. But the tape doesn't like sticking to the boxes! Booooo!
I had a letter from a company that I have a monthly subscription with. They have had trouble accessing my bank account because I changed my details due to the fraud. I suppose I may be getting more letters like this soon. I just hope they come before I change my address!

We have been planning for the move next month. We have got a moving date (15th Feb) and have started to sort out the packing. We have got some boxes and some vacuum packed plastic bags. THe idea of the latter is to store clothes and linen in a sealed bag and then to suck the air out of it. We tried it with a duvet of ours and it looks really weird with all the air sucked out- all small and wrinkled and hard (Stop making up our own jokes)

Anyway, out dining room is looking a mess with all sorts of packing materials. Not looking forward to the next month and a bit- I hate living out of boxes

... the heatings gone off

I have decided to write a poem. In fact I have decided that you bloggers have written the poem
I have put together the last few blog post titles in order and they have formed this literary masterpiece.

I call It Bloggers Go Crazy

Christ You facecake, what a shitty result. A grave situation
Dafters weight loss tip number 2: You know the world is going crazy when medical alert- contagious disease.
Conan the Barbarian! Boo! What File extension are you?

It's Saturday Evening, nearly time for bed. Today I didn't do much. I am still trying to get rid of this bug. I was hoping that the antibiotics would have kicked in by now, but no . I think the Doctor hated men, because she gave me the worst tasting and least effective tablets possible- and they made me feel nauseous last night. But I least I haven't had the black hairy tongue.
Tonight we watched the new series of Primeval. That looks like its going to be a good series. Nice to have something to watch on a Saturday again (that and Harry Hill's TV Burp)

on the PS3 I have been playing Oblivion (still). At the moment I am trying to collect the artifacts belonging to the knights of the nine, whilst trying to avoid those bloody oblivion gates which are cropping up all over the place.
ON the PSP, I have been playing I have been playing Silent Hill Origins. Good scary stuff! I have just worked out how to work the washing machine (Actually didn't sound that scary then did it)

Oh well, I have to take 2 more tablets before bed- perhaps those ones will work.

Anyone fancy a job? This could be for you. Fresh air and great views