So its farewell to 2010,
A year which was good now and then,
Lets hope 2011,
Is as good as 2007,
Or is an even better year yet again.
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Category: New Year Resolutions 2010
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New Year in Estonia
It is the last day for the Estonian kroon,
As with euros they now make their fortune,
So like the franc mark and lira,
Its the end of another era,
And maybe other countries will follow them soon.
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December 29th – 31st
Wednesday 29th December (3 days to go)
Some stick insects can grow up to 13 inches (33cm) long.
Thursday 30th December (2 days to go)
Sepp Blatter is up for re election next year as chief corruptor of football (ie FIFA president). Lets hope he pays £15 million for his elecction campaign and only gets one vote maybe losing to someone from Qatar
Friday 31st December…
You need to ingest about 4.5 pounds (just over 2kg) of green potatoes before you will feel the effects of the toxins in the potato.
Incidently I think I established today that you really do learn something new every day!
Along with the other things I learnt this year I did learn that robins see magnetic fields using their right eye, so a robin blind in the right eye is not so hot on its navigation skills. Cannot remember which day I learnt that odd fact though…
Wednesday
The Bill is no longer recorded (and had its last episode showed this August). Never watched it so there is no reason why I should have known this before.
Thursday
Florence Nightingale’s rose diagrams showed by length of radius that most deaths were preventable during the Crimean War (not by area as I had assumed).
Friday
There were more than one species of tyrannosaurus (I assumed rex was the only one up until today!)
Saturday
A costermonger sells fruit and veg.
Sunday
The story of King Canute first appeared 100 years after his reign and is probably not true.
Monday
England last retained the ashes in 1986-1987, and now Australia have scored a record low of 98 they may do so again this year.
Tuesday
Onychophagia is the technical name for nail biting.
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15th – 21st December
Wednesday
As medicine advances the percentage of HIV carriers in a population tends to stabalise, so a reduction in this percentage could be a sign of poor health provision.
Thursday
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was based partly from ideas in Shada the unscreened episode of Dr Who.
Friday
White sandy beaches are actually made from the droppings of parrot fish.
Saturday
Great Britain is the third most populated island in the world (and the 9th largest).
Sunday
Horses communicate with their ears, and white horses are born black.
Monday
Flu symptoms tend to appear more rapidly than colds (if I had known this the previous Wednesday when my symptoms appeared between 6.30 and 7 I may have consulted a Doctor sooner). I learnt today that I definately had flu.
Tuesday
King Henri IV’s embalmed head was discovered redcently in a French attic.
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Christmas Eve
The day before christmas is here,
And I would usually go out for beer,
Maybe meet a mate,
And stay out late,
But flu has worked against me this year.
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Being Isolated
I am sure that everyone wants to know how I stop myself going mad being in my room for the 5th day (apart from 2 excursions into the outside world which exhausted me).
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When on my own in my room its so still, There is no noise and the world’s so tranquil, So I can at last find, That voice in my mind, Saying “kill kill kill kill kill laugh madly then kill”(or alternatively watch tv online)
I am sure everyone like me was curious as to the link between the pyramid bottle shape and the name prism, ruined it all for me…
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There once was a confused little prism Who caused somewhat of a schism Cross sections weren’t unique The bottle rose to a peak Creating a name full of unrealism
I think that I am getting a bit better
So 5 lines should be not so bad to do
Still too ill to rhyme
Maybe next time
I will rhyme more lines than the 3rd and the 4th
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Man Flu Limerick
Man flu saps all available energy,
So you just cannot be arsed…
Dont even care if it rhymes,
And cannot even be bothered to do 5 lines.