The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Jesper:

A customer enters a fruit shop.

Mr. Praline: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.

(The owner does not respond.)

Mr. Praline: 'Ello, Miss?

Owner: What do you mean "miss"?

Mr. Praline: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!

Owner: We're closin' for lunch.

Mr. Praline: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this plum what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique, and what I was planning to save for breakfast.

Owner: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Plum...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?

Mr. Praline: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's eaten, that's what's wrong with it!

Owner: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting.

Mr. Praline: Look, matey, I know an eaten plum when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

Owner: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable fruit, the Norwegian Plum, isn'it, ay? So cold and so delicious!

Mr. Praline: Cold and delicious don't enter into it. It's just the stone left.

Yet another lurker hoping for a speedy recovery. My thoughts are with you both.

A useful rule of thumb: your main reference for a field should not be written by someone whose expertise is in an unrelated field. (Yes, this should be obvious, but it seems not to be.) If you're unlucky, the author has decided that since the experts in field X are obviously wrong, they can invent a better version of X themselves.

(Lomborg is a very good lecturer in his field of expertise, I'm told.)

#14: Many of the comments to the Times article were awful, but I liked one.

"How can we put faith in an article where the writer's do not even know how to spell defense?"

Only one sentence, yet it says so much.

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