Instructions for cooking Maggi 2 Minute Noodles, if the instructions were read by US President Barack Obama

March 19th, 2009

Break noodle cake in quarters. Empty contents of vegeable sachet then noodles into a large bowl. Add 1 1/4 cups (312 mL) boiling water and cook in 850 watt microwave oven on HIGH for 2 minutes.
Stir in contents of flavour sachet.
Serve with or without broth as desired.

Icecream flavours that sound like adult movie titles

March 18th, 2009
  • Cookies & Cream
  • Raspberry Ripple
  • Turkish Delight
  • Banana Blitz
  • Vanilla Raspberry
  • Coconut Rough
  • Nut Crunch
  • Almond Joy
  • Neopolitan Sluts 23

Little known life facts

March 14th, 2009
  • Tongues blunt razor blades
  • Gorgonzola is what you get when you breed Medusa and 19th century French literary icon Émile Zola
  • Song 2 by Blur is actually the third track of their seminal 1968 double album known as The White Album
  • You can power a town of 10,000 souls by putting 8 bald men in a bathtub full of Gatorade and connecting them with extension cords
  • Writing humour based lists while at work counts as client billable hours
  • Everybody loves holocaust jokes, fewer people love Holocaust jokes
  • Puppy Love: cute song, terrible felony

Pun names for your pet hedgehog

March 13th, 2009
  • Pointdexter
  • Spike
  • Hogfather
  • Erin seen, eh?
  • Benson & Hedgehogs
  • Quilly
  • Frank

Failed haikus

September 21st, 2008
  • Puppies are scrummy
    I enjoy them with white wine
    And a Burmese
  • Spring has sprung it’s springiness
    Winter has wanted it’s wintingness
    Summer can’t be arsed
  • Have you considered
    That I’m not
    Wearing any pants?
  • One two three four five
    One two three four five six seven
    One two three four shit
  • Some haikus make sense
    Others are kind of kooky
    ALL HAIL EMPEROR ZOD
  • My dear beloved
    For my birthday, can I have
    Anal?
  • How do you suppose
    Binary words are pronounced?
    00100 1011101101 001010101 11101 010101 0111110010 11001100011110 01010101 10
  • To fail a haiku
    Can be much more difficult
    Than you realise

Signs you aren’t going to win a Webby Award

September 21st, 2008
  • Your website is called “Blowin’ Chunks On Spunky Hunks”
  • Your only visitor is your cat
  • Proposed five word acceptance speech – “You can blow me, nerdlingers”
  • Your blog is never updated, only published in printed form, has chapters, and is a novel
  • Site consists of nothing but muffin recipes containing lead
  • Has led to you being wanted by Dutch police for “publishing inappropriate material”
  • Your PC is actually a toaster
  • Your website is called “Guided By Charts”

Special guest post from Guided By Venn Diagrams

September 21st, 2008

Lies

September 21st, 2008
  • Ducks are made of 80% chutney
  • I once banged the Pope
  • Al Gore killed a man just to watch him die
  • If you listen to a radio inside a radio station, Google breaks
  • The Beatles song Eleanor Rigby is named after a transexual from Kent
  • The Pope once banged me
  • When trapped in a desert, you can easily escape into a banana split by adding an ’s’
  • Sticking a fork into a power socket doesn’t kill you unless the fork contains mashed potato
  • Anne Frank

Nom de plumes I rejected before deciding on Guided By Charts

September 21st, 2008
  • Franz Lists
  • Studs McSexalot
  • Miranda Otto
  • Excel In A Handbasket (*)
  • Number One With A Bullet Point
  • <li>ar
  • A Few Good Men, And Some Lists
  • Perez Hilton
  • Cheap Vi@gr@ & C1@l1s! Pleasure Her For longer!

(*) I may still use this one if I ever need to write a help column on Microsoft Excel

Special guest post from Guided By Scrabble

September 19th, 2008

Rejected titles for the novel "Les Miserables"

September 19th, 2008
  • The Not Terribly Happies
  • Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
  • 18 Pages Of Plot Development, 1242 Pages Of Character Development
  • Better Than Fucking The Count Of Monte Cristo, That’s For Sure
  • Crime Pays, But Only For A Bit
  • Javert You Been?
  • Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
  • Cosette Gets Fingered

Band names that could also be euphemisms for sex

September 19th, 2008
  • Talking Heads
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Earth Wind & Fire
  • ZZ Top
  • Pearl Jam
  • Simply Red
  • Englebert Humperdink

Signs you may be Franklin Delano Roosevelt

September 19th, 2008
  • You’re in a wheelchair
  • Churchill keeps calling you a ‘jackass’
  • Your wife keeps banging other women
  • Keep calling game show “New Deal Or No Deal”
  • You’re diddling your cousin
  • The only things you have to fear is fear itself, cerebral hemorrhage
  • Japan invades you
  • You’re dead

Things I Don’t Understand

September 19th, 2008
  • Everything by David Lynch, except for the bit of Mulholland Drive where the two girls make out
  • Why the Spanish insist on having two question marks around written questions. And one of them – the first one at that – is upside down. What’s up with that, Spaniards? Too good for just a single question mark hey? We should never have saved you people in World War II
  • How it is that using the line “Want to see my Large Hadron Collider?” almost never succeeds in getting women to sleep with me
  • How some people can make one of their arse cheeks move independently of the other
  • 1987
  • Why whenever a grocery bag breaks, it always contains the heavy glass items
  • Women – are you with me fellas?
  • The 3rd Gymnopedie
  • Why the word beret isn’t flat and hat-shaped
  • Vegetarians
  • I mean, a second question mark? Do they need to put a second exclamation mark in all their sentences as well? Wait, they do? Daft motherf…

Life lessons I have learnt the hard way

April 23rd, 2008
  • “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” does not apply to chlamydia
  • Wearing a sundress for “casual dress Friday” demonstrates a misunderstanding of the “casual dress” concept
  • Though most musicians are notorious liars, the title of the Streets album “Dogs Die In Hot Cars” is entirely factual
  • Unlike my outdoor dining table, you can’t “fix” a puppy with a hammer and rusty nails
  • Double check your e-mails when organising a romantic tryst with a co-worker called Ally Staff, as careless use of Microsoft Outlook can lead to embarassment
  • When drinking heavily with friends, do not exclaim “the new Governor-General is a bit of alright” – it will soon escalate to “I’d tap that”, to “I wish she were here right now so I could plant one right on her lips” to “Where does she live?” to two charges of rape
  • Though “keeping it real” is a reasonable explanation for many of my actions, a surprising number of Supreme Court judges feel that there is already an adequate level of reality in their lives and courtrooms.