Saturday 19 December 2009

why binky is the best

Binky may refer to:
  • A stuffed animal or similar toy for small children
  • A brand name for a pacifier, used to comfort infants or small children
  • A blanket, used to keep infants or small children warm
  • A kind of twisting jump made by a rabbit at play
  • Binky (polar bear), a bear formerly in an Alaskan zoo
  • Binky (Harry Potter), a fictional pet rabbit in the Harry Potter series
  • Binky (Discworld), Death's horse in the Discworld book series
  • Binky, a fictional character in the Life in Hell comic strip series
  • Binky the Clown, a minor character in the comic strip Garfield
  • Binky the Cheerful Winking Paperclip, a fictional character in the comic strip Help Desk
  • Binky Barnes, a fictional bulldog and a virtual band on the TV series Arthur
  • Binky Abdul, a fictional character in the animated TV series The Fairly OddParents
  • A fictional "cute" monkey represented in the 'Anything but Cute' Ad campaign for the Dodge Caliber, stating "it scares the out of me".
  • A Simi Valley manager whose primary name is Vibeke Hansen

via wikipedia, dear.

Thursday 26 March 2009

Black Books

Customer: Those books, how much?
Bernard: Hmm?
Customer: Those books. Leather-bound ones.
Bernard: Yes, Dickens. The collective works of Charles Dickens.
Customer: They real leather?
Bernard: They're real Dickens.
Customer: I have to know if they're real leather because they have to go with a sofa. Everything else in my house is real. I'll give you two hundred for them.
Bernard: Two hundred what?
Customer: Two hundred pounds...
Bernard: Are they leather-bound pounds?
Customer: No...
Bernard: Sorry, I need leather-bound pounds to go with my wallet. Next!


In 2000, 'Black Books' was first aired on Channel 4. The sitcom about a miserable, unsociable, drunken book shop owner Bernard Black was the original idea by Dylan Moran and helped brought into existence by co-writer and fellow Irishman Graham Linehan. Series 2 was televised in 2002, and series 3 (quite possibly the last series) which aired in March 2004 on Channel 4 was greeted with great enthusiasm by critics and fans alike.

http://www.dylanmoranrules.com/menu1.htm

Sunday 15 March 2009

word of the week

recondite
(ree'-kon-dite, ri-kon'-dite) adj. 1: not easily understood, incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; abstruse. 2: concerned with or treating something abstruse or obscure. 3: concealed; hidden. [from Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere "to put away," from re + condere "to put together, preserve."]