Redefining the Wheel

Hello folks, and welcome to the first (hopefully) weekly segment of this blog.

The segment in question is inspired by a man named Ambrose Bierce, who wrote a book called The Cynic's Word Book, later retitled The Devil's Dictionary.

In this book Bierce offered tongue-in-cheek, and very cynical definitions of words, ranging from:

History: An account mostly false, of kings mostly fools, and soldiers mostly knaves. To:

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Now, for your reading pleasure, I am going to take a leaf out of Mr. Bierce's book (pardon the pun) and share with you my some of humble continuations of his vitally important work.

Redefining the wheel. First installment.

Pop Music: Whichever of the noises available to us that irritates our parents the most.

Vacuum Cleaner: A marvelous device which removes the dust from the corners of a room, and spreads it judiciously around the whole of the room.

Obvious: Possessing the quality of being completely mysterious to you.

Celery: See Cardboard.

Anchor: A device, the purpose of which is to be thrown over the port side of the ship, at any moment most inconvenient to those on board.

Thank you for reading, hopefully you enjoyed, and if so, check up again next friday, and hopefully I shall have another installment for you.

Cheers.

Captain Background.

South Park/Stupidity

Recently, the famously controversial TV series 'South Park' released an episode which featured, among other things, the prophet Mohammed in a bear costume.

This clearly vile and satanical act prompted a Muslim internet group to issue a "warning" to the show's creators Matt Stone, and Trey Parker.

The warning was as follows, quote:

"We have to warn Matt (Stone) and Trey (Parker) that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably end up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show." Unquote.

Theo Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker killed by an Islamic militant over a movie he made accusing Islam of perpetuating violence against women.

Allow me to begin my rant by saying that South Park is a comedy program. It is meant to poke fun, make light of, and otherwise ridicule, well just about everything, and if you don't find it funny, then don't watch the show. Thinly veiled death threats to it's creators are not necessary.

That being said, any group of people with this little of a sense of humor, is a sad statement in and of itself. People should leave comedy alone and not try to censor it because they don't like the subject material. If you dislike the making fun of something you find to be important to you, the solution is very simple: watch something else.

There are no subjects that 'Aren't funny' or that you 'shouldn't joke about'. In comedy, everything is up for grabs, and if you attempt to bar your entertainment from touching certain subjects, then we start to veer dangerously close to becoming one of those futuristic, dystopian novels we love to read. Or to put it another way, Singapore.

End Rant.