Ade’s Notes

Spontaneous thought after mireading a headline in today’s “Bund” about rapping (German “Rappen”):

If you gather 100 rappers, do you get a franker?

I know, I know.

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Advert of an unspecified Airline. I wonder what exactly the tours they offer involve. It’s slightly disturbing that the image shows a camel, though…

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From TSA: Prohibited Items:

We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage.

Hmmm… I don’t have any gel filled bras. Better stock up before my next trip.

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Security leaflet on a Boeing MD-80. Hmmm…

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Some quotes by Jeremy Clarkson should not be read in the office, if you don’t want to puzzle cow-orkers by laughing out loud:

People often criticise her (Parker-Bowles) because she’s approaching 60, but they forget that Princess Diana was approaching 120 when she went into the tunnel.

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This picture shows — obviously — a glacier. What’s not so obvious is, that this glacier, like so many in Iceland, has an active volcano underneath it. This leads to accumulation of large amounts of meltwater under the glacier, which spills over and floods a large area of the southern coast every couple of years in a Jökulhlaup. The Lonely Planet guide to Iceland says that it was a couple of million cubic litres (sic!) in 1996… Wow… a couple of million m⁹ of water! That’s a lot!

Coincidentially, what exactly I was suffering from when I drove past there and thought to myself “Who had the stupid idea of putting the glacier on top of a volcano anyway?”, I don’t recall. I hadn’t even had Hákarl that day…

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