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The Starved Writer

Blog ideas that didn’t work

Following on from websites I haven’t made, (in which I shared ideas for websites that I initially thought were great ideas but for one reason or another I hadn’t made,) I decided to share with you the ideas for blog articles that didn’t work. I have written to many companies over the years, but not [...]

Becoming More Famous Than…

Last year I asked people on the internet who the most famous person they know was. I was a bit shocked by one of the replies, which said “You’re the most famous person I know!”

Erm… I’m in no way famous. At all. I don’t mean that in a “feed my ego and tell [...]

Tasty Frog

When people eat odd meat, they usually say it tastes like chicken.

“I ate some pigeon – it tasted like chicken.”

“I ate guinea pig in Korea – it tasted like chicken!”

“I ate frogs legs in France and THEY tasted like chicken too!!!”

But in the evolutionary line, didn’t amphibians and reptiles come well [...]

Glasses. Are They Half Full or Half Empty?

One of my mates drowned last night in a half-empty bath tub. Unusual really, as he was normally so optimistic…

According to Wikipedia, the source of all correct information everything on the internet, asking someone if a glass is half full or half empty is a very philosophical question. The answer depends on your perspective [...]

Text Speak (txt spk)

I don’t understand text speak, or “txt spk” as the hip and trendy people call it.

It takes me longer to read a “txt” text than it does a real English one. Initially it looks like quite a simple method in that you seem to just omit vowels, but it isn’t; the rules extend to [...]