I think for me, ‘thinking outside the box’ has become the new ‘why did the chicken cross the road’. So many opportunities for a fun and quirky interpretation.
But back to our humble chicken… Yet again I’ve troweled the internet to find the best of the best chicken jokes (by the way, Google provided me with a choice of 3.68 million options). So, rather than providing you with bog standard, Top 10 best ever why did the chicken cross the road jokes, I’ve found a highly intellectual take on the subject in question. Drum roll please…
Harvard University physics department has dedicated a page to answering the question through the mouths of famous physicists. From Einstein, to Sagan, to Pascal – they’re all in there. Enjoy!
So what’s your favourite chicken joke?
I declare today, the day of fish!
In honour of fish everywhere, here are a few tributes
- One Fish, two fish… (Warning: contains toilet humour)
- Fish evolution, Take 1
- Fish evolution, Take 2
- Take 3, and 4 and 5
And a few of my favourites.. The wishing well – perspective on life through the eyes of a wishing well fish
And to top the celebrations is our one of most loved freebies, Go Fish
What day would you like to declare?
If Google is the source of all knowledge, then Wiki must come in as a strong second… OK, only joking, but as you all know I do enjoy a bit of surfing as part of my research for cartoons. This time I tackled Wiki on the topic of forbidden fruit and was presented with more disclaimers than content, including the need for: possible rewriting of the article, copy editing for grammar and style, more citations and verification and finally tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.
So, now that the disclaimer is out, you can take the following information as you will…
Apparently, the forbidden apple might not have been an apple after all. Up until the 17th century, the word apple meant all fruit other than berries but including nuts. Historical references, have described the fruit as: pomegranates, figs, grape, wheat and even mushrooms.
The Cambridge dictionary definition for daydreaming is “a series of pleasant thoughts about something you would prefer to be doing or something you would like to achieve in the future”
Lately, I’ve been daydreaming of winning Tatts and thinking of all the things I would do with the prize money.
What do you daydream about?
Normally I find Wiki a quick way to learn about something that I have no idea about (at least as a starting point). But this time I was presented with the opposite; having played the clarinet for 5 years I knew what B flat was. However, Wiki’s definition challenged my modest brain matter.
B♭ (B-flat; also called si bémol) is the eleventh semitone of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C). It lies a diatonic semitone above A and a chromatic semitone below B, thus being enharmonic to A♯ although in some musical tunings, B♭ will have a different sounding pitch than A♯.
Every now and then I dare to check Google to see if my cartoon is already out there. It’s a cartoonist’s worst nightmare (or close to) to publish a cartoon that someone else has already done – similar in notion to inadvertant copying. If you find out afterwards, it’s a bit like going through the seven stages of grief, starting with disbelief and shock (I mean, how could someone else possibly come up with my great, unique idea before I even had a chance to put pen to paper?). Luckily, this time I was relieved to find nothing similar. I found an article titled ‘Fifty shades of blue’, where my heart momentarily skipped a beat. However, it was short lived – It was a blue hair colour dye trend article.
Ever had your great idea trumped by someone else?
PS. If you find a cartoon along a similar vein, feel free to not contacting me with the information 🙂
Some of you might remember this cartoon from four years ago. I’ve always wanted to redraw it in my current vector drawing app to prevent pixilation and sell as a T-shirt on my online Cafepress store. I hope you like the new version; let me know.