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Opening Absurdity

The distinguished sergeant said something… it was important… it might have been about cabbages… I can’t remember…

Quote of the Day

"A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive." (Albert Camus)

A Saying That Has Probably Been Said

When all is said and done, nothing is said and done

A Cruel and Absurd World…

An Australian woman has died on Australia Day after choking on a lamington in a lamington-eating competition and suffering a seizure.
“This lady shovelled the lamington into her mouth with no restraint….inhaled the coconut and arrested”, a witness reported.

Book Title You Will Probably Never See…

Things to Do While Groaning in The Fields


Thanks For Coming White T-Shirt Front

A Possibly Foolish Question…

How much do the birds and the bees get paid to appear in a feature film?

The Meaning of Life?

The birds and the bees drunk on wine
Said No One, Probably Ever….

“That tasted like the green grass of Ecuador, December 11, 1913”

A Statistic That Probably Never Was or Will Ever Be…

Only 3% of people born in 1811 have so far died in 2020

From The Great Woman Leonora Carrington

“Then it seemed that a cloud formed itself into an enormous bumble bee as big as a sheep. She wore a tall iron crown studded with rock crystals, the stars of the underworld.

All this may have been a collective hallucination although nobody has yet explained to me what a collective hallucination actually means.”


“Yes! I’ve got it! my 99 years of life have taught me that the world is a cliché and that everything is clear as mud!”
man lying on green grass soaked with mud
Modern Wank

When an organisation, corporation, institution, or whatever, advertises for the “newly created role of Change Manager

Go Absurd! Exercise:

While standing on a busy train platform excitedly announce, “I’m about to catch a train with my mommy/mummy to the circus!”

A Sign You Will Probably Never See…

DRIVING
IS
OVERRATED
(Go Home!)

Remember

Absurd responsibly. The Buddhist no harm principle applies here. Do not harm yourself or others when going absurd. (Maybe what I have just written is absurd?)

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