Re: Point?
Because it allowed someone to write an article including the words...
Goblin
Tea Cosies
Penis
Hitler
Seriously, who's going to pass that up?
The splendidly titled Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop has won The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Reginald Bakeley's winning tome, which also offers "Other Practical Advice In Our Campaign Against The Fairy Kingdom", took 38 per cent of an online public vote. Loani Prior's How Tea Cosies Changed …
This post has been deleted by its author
"Goblin
Tea Cosies
Penis
Hitler"
The real challenge: Use them all in a sentence.
My entry: "Again, Hitler doubled over in pain - another goblin had latched on to his nether regions, having bitten right through the extra layers of tea cosies that the Fuhrer had positioned there for protection, and was mocking him from around a mouthful of penis: "Thig heil thith, mein thurer," it sputtered gleefully as it chewed, "Lookth like there'th one Natthi thallute you won't be givin' thräulein Braun any thime thoon!"
...yeah, there's a reason I didn't become an author.
There seems to be a genre of anecdote in which a famous foreign person visited England - usually before they were famous, although there also was briefly a legend that Michael Jackson performed impromptu at some club in provincial England - which is more likely to be the work of an impersonator, and "Anton in Eastbourne" (the playwright Chekhov) is a work of fiction. But Lenin, and yes Hitler, and Jesus, are supposed to have walked upon England's mountains green - if you believe it. (Re Jesus, no, not just because of the song.) Supposedly Lenin came to see Letchworth.
I don't know if this is just an English hobby, or reflective of an island nervous about immigration. You might sceptically include the Book of Mormon (not the musical show) in an equivalent American genre, and a rare case of Americans admitting that anyone who isn't an American -is- famous.
it's filed under the Business / Media section of the website.
Not under the Computer section. Not under the Tech section. Not under the Software section, nor even under the Hardware section. I'm confused by your confusion that you thought it was part of one or all of those sections of the site.
and as others have said, it's friday ffs, lighten up and get down the pub!
I'd imagine it's about avoiding more than the ship itself, but the inevitable wake. Depending on your relative position to the huge ship (same/opposite heading, larboard/starboard side), once you've avoided actual collision, you'd still need to change course to ride over the wake, else potentially turning turtle.