Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. Peg Bracken

What Gender is Computer? Pencil is masculine "le crayon". A student asked, "What gender is computer? Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups- male and female- and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for their recommendation. The men's group decided that computer should definitely be the feminine gender (la computer) because: 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic. 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review; and 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it. The women's group, however, concluded that computers should definitely be masculine (le computer) because: 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on. 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves. 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model. The women won.

LOL, Jasdip. One of our daily newspapers started running Between Friends to replace For Better or For Worse. Lots of angst about replacing our beloved For Better, but I just love Between Friends. I have been especially looking forward to the daily strip for the continuing story line.

You've probably seen this guy James on FB. He does amazing photo-shopping, always making the photos worse than what the people ask for. Great humour.