TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

  The audio of this video is NSFW - and perhaps inappropriate for the 12-year-olds who visit this blog.  But since I have so many Spanish-En...

I discovered this last summer: paint and wood fiber disappearing from the base of a structural element next to the garage door.  I didn'...

The Divergent Association Task challenges you to select ten words that are "as different from each other as possible, in all meanings ...

"Although in ancient times Britain bore the name of Alba, she was by no means alone in doing so. Tens of scores of place names derived ...

Excerpts from The Farfarers , by Farley Mowat (also published as The Alban Quest ): Up to fourteen feet long, superbly muscled, clad in...

YouTube link . You either like George Carlin or hate him. If the former, you have probably already heard this rant. If you're in the ...

Yes, yes, I know - this is totally politically incorrect and unworthy of insertion in TYWKIWDBI.  That's why I've closed the comment...

Scanned from the bottom of a column of advice in a catalogue of a dahlia merchant.  I remember being advised to cut flowers while holding th...

 Posted for the large group* of librarians who are readers here.   Via . * I don't know the venereal term used for librarians.  Addendu...

Although a comment at the discussion thread says that "The Taco Bell turned into a Subway, and now is Bon Appetit. There's also 5 ...

Discussion of this "kleptotrichy" and a couple other videos (including harvesting from a human head) at The New York Times .

"Never pile mulch against the trunks of trees.  The dreaded “volcano mulch” so often seen is damaging, Ms. Janoski said, trapping moist...

Kudos to this flight attendant.  I hope he is appropriately rewarded .  And I hope the airline sues the shit out of the malefactor who was y...