Wednesday, 16 October 2013

What I learned in school today

Mrsgunka sent us this joke. Thank you, MrsG.

A kindergarten class was given a homework assignment to find out something exciting and relate it to the class the next day.

When the time came to present what they'd found, the first little boy the teacher called on walked up to the front of the class. He picked up a piece of chalk, made a small white dot on the blackboard and sat back down.


Puzzled, the teacher asked him what it was.

"It's a period," he replied.

"I can see that," said the teacher, "but what is so exciting about a period?"

"Darned if I know," said the boy, "but yesterday my sister was missing one, Mom fainted, Dad had a heart attack, and the boy next door joined the Navy."

Monday, 14 October 2013

Seven years in France

Today is the 7th anniversary of our move to France. Here are some pictures of various places in lovely Correze, taken over the years. We're very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of France. Enjoy!

Chamberet

Collonges-la-Rouge

Collonges-la-Rouge

Madranges

Masseret

Meyssac

Meyssac

Pompadour

Pompadour

Segur-le-Chateau

Segur-le-Chateau

Treignac

Treignac

Tulle

Tulle

Uzerche

Venarsal

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne

Lestards

Correze

Sunday, 13 October 2013

I'm sorry, but blonde jokes are funny...

View sent us this joke. Thank you, View.

A young ventriloquist is touring Sweden and, one night, he's doing a show in a small fishing town. With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blonde jokes.


Suddenly, a blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and starts shouting, "I've heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype Swedish blond women that way? What does the color of a woman's hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It's men like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community, and from reaching our full potential as people. Its people like you that make others think that all Blondes are dumb! You and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes, but women in general ... pathetically all in the name of humor!"


The embarrassed ventriloquist begins to apologize, and the blonde yells: "You stay out of this! I'm talking to that little sh*t on your lap."


Friday, 11 October 2013

Having fun with codes

The other day Amy tried to explain how to do hyperlinks and it didn't work very well because the explanation itself turned into a hyperlink! It's all to do with html codes. You write something in code and it gets reinterpreted, appearing as normal text, but modified to italic, bold, hyperlink, etc, depending on the code you use. Examples:

italic

bold

strike

Text appears small.

Text appears big.

click here


The Blogger interface looks like this:


There are buttons on the top that apply the code to any highlighted text. When you click on HTML, the box changes and the html codes appear:


I had to take a screenshot of the html codes, because if I had tried to copy and paste it, it would be immediately reinterpreted and appear exactly as in the list of examples, minus the codes.

The last example is a hyperlink. If you want to make any text appear as a clickable link, all you do is write everything exactly as above, but instead of "http://whattimeisoclock.blogspost.fr/" you paste the address of the site you want to link and instead of "click here" you write what you want to appear in your comment, such as "Cool site" or anything you that takes your fancy.

The codes for italics, bold, strike, etc, are quite easy, but must be applied exactly as they are above. Simply use your own words instead of italic, bold, etc, between the opening and closing tags.

Try these simple codes in your comments. It should be fun!


Thursday, 10 October 2013

Old age etiquette

My sister Dora sent me a video by email, saying she was sure I would enjoy it. I replied that she had shown me the video when she was here last July.

I loved her reply:

"Well, if I forgot I had already shown it to you, the very least you could have done was to forget that you had already seen it!"


Tuesday, 8 October 2013

I love you, birthday guy

Today is my wonderful husband's birthday. He's a busy guy, crossing oceans and continents to deliver prizes to our competition winners. Yes, I know, I know, he stops for pie and loses the plot. Still, I love him!



Peter likes his tea, so this is the perfect cake for him:


Go on, make a fuss of him, he deserves it!

Monday, 7 October 2013

Sunday, 6 October 2013

Who are they? - The results

Here are the identities of yesterday's little children:

David Beckham

Harrison Ford

Courtney Cox

Madonna

Johnny Depp

Marylin Monroe

Hillary Clinton

Katie Holmes

Pierce Brosnan

Eva Longoria

I don't know how he did it, but Pallottine got them all right on his first attempt. Now he'll have to wait for Peter's prize delivery service, which is normally severely disrupted by the temptation of pie along the way...

Saturday, 5 October 2013

Who are they?

Hey peeps, it's time for another silly competition! Just identify these famous people from their old pics. Remember, no googling... [At last two of them are fairly easy.]

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[In case you haven't seen it, there's an extra post today. Please read it and take action!]