The Blog of Ross C Brown

Don’t Lick the Pages

My childhood has been something of a disappointment.  It was happy and all that, but I never experienced any of those ‘growing up’ conversations where ones parents would try to explain some strange fact of life, such as sexual reproduction.  The subjects were never mentioned, and my sexual education came from a very detailed and [...]

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Hyperforeignism

Today, it is my aim to slip the word ‘Hyperforeignism‘ into a conversation.  Here are the rules:
It must be in context.
I can not initiate the conversation.
A definition:
“When pronunciation and spelling of foreign loan words are erroneously based on rules that apply to other foreign words but not to those in question, the phenomenon is [...]

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Our Energy is Your Energy

Does anyone know the title of the music used on the Total Oil ‘Our Energy is Your Energy’ television ad?  If you do, please leave a comment as I would really like to know.

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OpenDNS rocks!

A while ago I wrote about a few problems I was having with OpenDNS.  Not because OpenDNS are in anyway a bad operation, to the contrary they are ‘law abiding’ eCitizens – that was the problem.

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