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memes, words

Ten Things: January

This year our Ten Things each month are words with particular endings. Clearly this won’t be all the words with the nominated ending, but a selection of the more interesting and/or unusual.

Ten Words ending with -x

  1. hallux
  2. heterodox
  3. dominatrix
  4. meretrix
  5. codex
  6. prolix
  7. calyx
  8. phalanx
  9. phoenix
  10. crucifix

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to write a story in at most three sentences using all these words correctly. Post your attempt in the comments before the end of the month and there’s an e-drink for anyone who I consider succeeds.

amusements, memes

Ten Things: December

This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …

Ten Odd Names from My Family History
(direct relationship where known)

  1. John Crotehole (my 12th great-grandfather)
  2. Thomas Cuckow
  3. Brothers Absalom, Israel & Jabez Hicks, and their grandfather Farclay Hicks (Jabez Hicks was my great-great-grandfather, and Farclay my 4th great-grandfather)
  4. Spicer Marshall
  5. Turner Marshall
  6. Emma Mouser
  7. Langman Murfet (my 6th great-grandfather)
  8. Willson Gates Nowers (my 3rd great-uncle; right)
  9. Marrianna Odeyarne (my 9th great-grandmother)
  10. Philip Wildboar
amusements, memes

Ten Things: November

This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …

Ten Strange Ancient Jobs

  1. Nob Thatcher
  2. Bum Bailiff
  3. Fear-Naught Maker
  4. Fish Fag
  5. Gerund Grinder
  6. Gong Farmer
  7. Philosophical Instrument Maker (right)
  8. Prick Louise
  9. Rack Maiden
  10. Vaginarius
amusements, memes

Ten Things: October

This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …

Ten Organisations I Invented

  1. Badger and the Road Kill; third rate 70s rock group
  2. Beaver & Dyke; pub
  3. Blunder & Bust; accountants to the impoverished
  4. Forced Rhubarb; female barbershop singers
  5. Gortmore Mews; merchant bank
  6. Interbap; Russian state bakers
  7. Kidney, Scrotum & Codd; debt collectors
  8. Snottwright & Wedge; builders
  9. Virgins in Paradise; Islamic girl band (right)
  10. Wackford Squeers and the Cheeryble Brothers; gothic Motown rock band
amusements, memes

Things to Think About: October

This year we’re beginning each month with a (potentially logical) oddity to think about, and to keep the brain cells active. This month:

Many animals probably need glasses, but they don’t know it and neither do we.

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.