Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-15-2010

[anuran]

• The Shirt
  Folding a note into a little shirt
  (tags: origami fun money howto)
• NHS Tayside sack 500 staff, advertise £68k homeopath post
  (tags: wtf doom homeopathy)
• English As She Is Spoke
  In 1855 a little book was published in Paris to little notice - a Portuguese?English phrase book. It was nearly 30 years beore it was discovered to contain a rich deposit of pure hilarity. Carolinho, who knew no English, had constructed it by taking a Portugese/French phrasebook written by Da Fonesca and translated the French word for word into English using a dictionary. A masterpiece of unintended humour
  (tags: language pdf funny history book)
• YouTube - Calendar Countdown Pilot - Never Before Seen On TV - Part 1 Of 3
  How did this not only get comissioned, but as Channel 4's flagship show?
  (tags: tv countdown amazing history)

Comments

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

If you come this weekend I will make you some wigs!

[marrog.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that (if memory serves) in the UK only the old £1 note is the right width:height ratio to do this.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

really? cos I've managed to do it fine with notes from 8 different countries

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Huh. Maybe it's one of the other folding thingies you need the right ratio for and it doesn't matter for this one...