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 Ficticious Books from Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time

1. Ada Leintwardine; The Bitch Pack Meets on Wednesday
2. David Pennistone; Descartes, Gassendi and the Atomic Theory of Epicurus
3. Evadne Clapham; The Pistons of our Locomotives Sing the Songs of Our Workers (retitled as Engine Melody)
4. St John Clarke; Fields of Amaranth (see right)
5. Vernon Gainsborough; Bronstein Marxist or Mystagogue?
6. X Trapnel; Dogs Have No Uncles
7. Russell Gwinnett; The Gothic Symbolism of Mortality in the Texture of Jacobean Stagecraft
8. Quentin Shuckerly; Athletes Footmen
9. Mark Members; Kleist, Marx, Sartre, The Existential Equilibrium
10. Revd Salathiel Brightman; Attick and Roman Reckonings of Capacity for Things Liquid and Things Dry reduced to the Common English Mensuration for Wine and Corn

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

Do twins ever realise that one of them is unplanned?

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.

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 Obituary Euphemisms

1. Convivial: Habitually drunk
2. Gave colourful accounts of his exploits: A liar
3. A man of simple tastes: A complete vulgarian
4. A lively conversationalist: A crashing bore
5. An uncompromisingly direct ladies’ man: A flasher
6. A confirmed bachelor: Homosexual (see right)
7. She left no close relatives: A lesbian
8. Always had a twinkle in his eye: A drooling pervert
9. Colourful: Criminal 
10. Active in the community: A busy-body

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

If all the nations in the world are in debt, who’s got the money?

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.

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 Modern Jobs

1. Snake Milker
2. Animal Colourist
3. Penetration Tester
4. Teddy Bear Surgeon (see right)
5. Digital Prophet
6. Cheese Sprayer
7. Oyster Floater
8. Toilet Sniffer
9. Hairapist
10. Bike Fisherman

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

If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than there were before.

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.