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

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.

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 Real Modern People I’ve Encountered Somewhere Along the Way

1. Fanny Hyman
2. Simone Kuhnt
3. Neil B Waspe
4. Ripple Man
5. Umar Butt
6. Jimmy Riddle
7. Lovelet Simms
8. Cock M van der Ploeg
9. Koos Quak
10. Ruth Bint

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 poison is past its expiry date, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?

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 Curiously Named Diseases
(with what they afflict)

1. Astrakhan Spotted Fever (humans)
2. Corridor Disease (bovines)
3. Flaccid Trunk Disease (elephants)
4. Hamberger Gill Disease (fish)
5. Huanglongbing (citrus trees)
6. Motley Dwarf Disease (carrots)
7. O’nyong-nyong fever (humans)
8. Tulip Fingers (humans)
9. Witches’ Broom (cacao trees)
10. Wobbly Possum Disease (possums)

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 illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.