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Signs to make you think

By That's life

Sign with double meaning

In the interest of research for this cartoon you’ll be pleased to know that I wasted my time, not yours, with the sole mission of finding the best of the very best in street signage.  And I’m not talking about the bog standard funny signs you get when you simply type ‘funny signs’ into Google. No, I’m talking about witty, thought provoking signs, that you would have to trawl down to page 23,459 of Google, because that’s where you find the true gems of the internet.

What makes this find a bonus (at least for me), is that it’s by an Australian artist, Michael Peterson. Not only is his street signage clever, but it is a wonderful example of Australian humour…So, are you now just a wee bit curious?

If you want a smile the instant you click on the link, then this is the link for you.

PS. Share your thoughts. It only takes another click and few keyboard letters.

May 5, 2017
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Lights on

By That's life

Lights on, no-one homeI think in recent weeks I’ve been playing too much in the four quadrant concept that all businesses seem to love…So I thought I’d flip it around.

So tell me, do you think it will catch on?

 

March 24, 2017
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Half full

By That's life

I love to see what Google has to say on certain topics, so today I asked ‘Is the glass half full or empty?’ and I found this website, Businessballs.com, that dedicated a whole page to this concept. Here are a few thoughts on the topic:

  • The computer programmer says the glass is full-empty
  • The actor says, “Whatever the director wants it to be – or not to be…”
  • The Buddhist says don’t worry, remember the glass is already broken.
  • The realist says the glass contains half the required amount of liquid for it to overflow.
  • The inventor says: I can invent a new glass that will put an end to this ridiculous misperception.
  • The millennial says: I cannot make an informed decision about whether the glass is half-full or half-empty before I have checked all the reviews on Yelp and Trip Advisor.
  • The entrepreneur sees the glass as undervalued by half its potential.
  • The computer specialist says that next year the glass capacity will double, be half the price, but cost you 50% more for me to give you the answer.
  • The call-centre operator asks if you’d mind holding while she finds out for you. (Your call is important to them…)

So tell me, what’s your glass like? 

 

March 17, 2017
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First encounter

By Space and Aliens

We come in peace alien invasion

I’ve been inspired by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s recent discovery of 7 new earth-sized planets within the habitable zone around one star.  And what names did they give these beautiful babies of the Milky Way? An uninspiring: b, c, d, e, f, g, h – not even capitals!

But wait, it gets better. The star these planets are revolving around is named TRAPPIST-1 (short for Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope); but that name was created for commoners such as myself. It’s astronomical catalogue name is 2MASS J23062928-0502285. No wonder they ran out of imagination by the time they reached the planets.

I’m sure you could do better. What would you call them?

March 10, 2017
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I’ll trump your fake news

By That's life

…with a fake orange

Donald Trump fake news joke cartoon

Don’t you find it amazing how only last month, the phrase fake news was but non-existent, but now it’s everywhere you go. We’re probably living and breathing the beginnings of a future etymological study over 500 years from now; where etymologists will dive into our popular culture and history to understand what was going on at the time that resulted in the phrase fake news.

And as I stand here today before you in pixel format, I prophesize we’ll see a logarithmic escalation in the use of the term fake news, as captured within tool such as Google Ngrams. If you aren’t aware of this neat little program, it’s an online search engine that charts frequencies of a word or string of words (such as a phrase) as documented within printed sources between 1500 and 2008. Below is the ngram I created for the use of the phrase real news versus fake news. 

Fake news vs real news on Google ngram

Now, let’s sit back and watch fake news rise above and beyond the real news.

PS. If you want to find out a bit more of the serious side to this Google tool, watch the TED talk What we learnt form 5 million books.

 

February 21, 2017
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Apples and science

By Science, That's life

Newton's law of gravitation

Those of you who know me, realise I enjoy science. So it’s hardly surprising that I create an odd cartoon or to on the subject matter. In this instance, I Googled ‘gravity’ to find out more to share with you all. Wiki provided the following definition,

‘Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that a particle attracts every other particle in the universe using a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.’

Quite a mouthful. No wonder the expression ‘What goes up, must come down’ was coined.

What’s your favourite expression or idiom?

 

February 17, 2017
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