punnies

Also on a dramatic note, this was a recent literary query that sent a googler to boynton .

eureka

You wrote a play about Lalor - my cousin informs me.
No I didn't
Yes you did. Lalor. I read about it in the paper.
Lalor?
Lalor.
Good idea for a play, but I didn't write it.

(I think of the suburb rather than the historical figure during this exchange. A play about the suburb is more appealing to me as a play I didn't write)

random

For example, this image can be described by the labels: sky (50 points), bird (60 points), soaring (120 points), or frigate bird (150 points).

Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.



Is this the end of civilisation the random pun and poetic compound of the Google Image Search? It is the random quality of Google Images that I appreciate, and in honour of its odd surprises, I compiled a collage from the search "I prefer random images"




(Click for a better view)
 

birthday plains

Tour of Birthday Plains

On the slippery slope

Over the hill

 

wood's

After the chainsaw massacre, they left a note on the nature strip.
At first I thought it was a grocer's apostrophe happening, but perhaps it's a ...

Free Fire Wood's... a sign of the times.
 

was here

 


I did not expect this thumbnail story of a roo and a zoo and a family walking off the land when I went looking for Whelan*

name that

boynton's looking a bit half baked lately, in the #85C4CC sense of the word, anyway.

This is one of the the dropdown list of 1500+ colors at Name that Color (via the presurfer)

Interesting names include My sin, Neon Carrot, Wistful, Half Colonial White and Gossip, but it was the more prosaic Dingley that caught my eye today.

I suppose I had never really thought of the colour of Dingley before,

or of   having a colour.
 

no gnomes

There were no gnomes to be seen in the snooty nursery with Vivaldi, and why would there be.
So we went downstream to the garden centre where polymer cockies and budgies happily hang out with the medium shrubs and climbing roses.
There were about six footy gnomes gracing the terraces,
but none in red and white. So I asked the saleswoman:
- Do you have any Swans Footy Gnomes?
- Did you see any about?
- No.
- No. I think we only stock the Melbourne teams...
I don't mean to be racist.

I was more offended on behalf of South Melbourne Football Club. As a dyed-in-the-wool Victorian, I agree with the sentiment: NSW is a different country. But as there were a couple of non-Victorian gnomes in the cluster, a Crow and a Docker, I don't think this was an official policy.

faq

Q: Is it time to stop playing pub trivia when the answer is Labrador and I say Alsatian?

(OTOH - was it the time, two years ago, when I didn't know the middle name of J.B.Priestley)

needed

[citation needed] Sticker

Cut this sticker into three strips, and start flagging inadequately-sourced objects in the world around you

via As Above


(High on my list of top ten phrases of our times)
 

exotic

From Australian American Cookbook 1958 p70

On behalf of
 

dental tv

More dental as

Remember: the television is there for you.
said my dentist, as I stared up at Foxtel on the ceiling.
Is this OK?
It was Chefs in a kitchen so I said yep casually before my mouth went numb,
Because talking Chefs in a kitchen seemed innocuous enough, despite the dollop of reality-tv competition, British not Iron.
But then suddenly it was all about meat.
And not in a discreet ingredients way, but MEAT, the full-on butchery thing with slabs and lumps and rumps and sides of MEAT in Catering quantities.
And close ups of chefs carving into carcasses was not the most relaxing thing.
I squirmed. The dentist looked up and went into emergency mode -
Turn it off, turn it off! he said to the assistants,
who had to leave the proceedings to fetch the remote.
What do you want? History?
I think I nodded.
Because it was all Pocahontas from there.

geographic

Pom-pom

Photos from national Geographics from the 1950's photo-set
 

qotd

Property expert on Channel 7 news:

"If you're not on the merry-go-round, you're going to miss the boat"

key words

As noted in a recent comment to Juke, I'd be lost without my recent referrers.
I like the weird accents of googlish, and the odd compounds of nouns laced with the urgency or the concentrate of searches.
It's the only Word/Quote/Thought of the Day feed I'd bother reading.
So I was intrigued to see Tolstoy Volkswagen last week.
Was it a What car would he drive variation?

Sometimes though, googling the searches has its rewards, and I found a few good blogs by this auto keyword combination:
The kombies at Woy-Woy Walkies introduced me to spike and This isn't Sydney

Also to his wonderful flickr sets, including:
1950’s Woy Woy
Gone: Demolished buildings in Woy Woy & the Greater Gosford Area AKA Brisbane Water.


And another find was War And Peace - the comic version - within this uni resource guide. (Scroll down to 1865-1869)
 

wonderin

Do you blog? Do you Twitter, Pownce or Jaiku? Do you read feeds? 12 ways to use facebook

(No, I don't twitter or even flickr, and I haven't registered yet. But I'm beginning to idly wonder...)

Is Facebook killing blogs?

Or has SNS ennui kicked in already?



source

Update Tim Dunlop via LP
 

woth douse

This search just in from the stats.

Wonder woth they douse.
 

78

 



Vinyl record generator via things

impending

source

And speaking of dogs, nice lines and tumblers, Impending dog disaster might
be a useful phrase to unleash.

8 randomly

boynton at the coldest day since last

notes When really you get

to encounter another* sortie into the nice

line, check wiki

past this one. You hear the most

tumblers are taken about

dog but I watched

local where this point

The eight random things about myself meme defeated me. I could not find the correct line between chocolate and confessional.
So I used Rob's Amazing Poem Generator to extract 8 random boyntonesque lines for me.