With a proper southern accent, I present you with I Like Dicks, Happy Dicks and Clawed Dicks: {and the uncomically named Billy Florence, of course.}  My thanks to the UGA Chemistry Department newsletter for keeping me abreast [heh-heh] of happenings back home (see, guys, I DO read this thing). It really makes you wonder, though, [...]

I went to the Home Base to buy some suet balls to attract migratory birds to shit on my clothesline, and got a nice chuckle when I found them on this shelf:

Sometimes if you use Google you are glad you have the adult filters turned on.  A few years ago I tried to find something for Jamie’s birthday because she was a big Roy Rogers fan as a kid, but “Roy Rogers” as an internet search can deliver you some wild gay porn.  Here’s another Google [...]

At Tesco, how could I resist this product:

Fish and chip shops in England almost always have some sort of clever name, like the one above I spotted in a village near York. Here are a few more: “The Frying Scotsman” “A Fish called Rhondda” “Oh My Cod” and “Cod Help Us” and “The Codfather” and “Codrophenia” “A Salt ‘N’ Battered” “{owner’s name [...]

The recession can’t be all THAT bad if this is a viable business: Yep, that’s http://www.newmarkethathire.co.uk/ for all your hat rental needs in the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire corridor.

In America, there is a snack food of devil’s food cake with a cream filling and chocolate icing known as Ding Dongs throughout most of the US, but the makers thought better of it (considering the imaturity of the customer base and the likelihood of snickering and potential for de facto homophobia-related boycotting) and renamed [...]

This was the most blatantly touristy thing I have managed to do since moving here: I took the tube to Mornington Crescent. Mornington Crescent is the name of a game section on the long running (decades) radio panel quiz-esque show called I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.  Hosted for most of the run by the [...]

Not even nearly caught up with the Pub notes.  I’ll keep plugging away… Friday, I got to work extra early and skipped lunch so was famished on the way to do shopping for supper before catching the 4.10 pm bus to Stretham.  I found the Sainsbury’s grocery store up Sidney Street, but thought I could [...]

Most people don’t know why I find Bun Shop a funny name.  But, I went out of my way to have a beer here because of it. The River Cam was flooded and I opted to cut my run short.  I had worked up a sweat and only planned to down one quickly (which I [...]