Random thoughts (part 14)

Every now and again on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog, I like to post about random unconnected subjects, and today is one such occasion.

A selection of fairy tale characters, including the Two Little Pigs.
Because apparently AI can't count.

To start things off, here's a thought on the transformation of fairy tales over the ages.

1) Fairy tales used to start with, "Once upon a time..."

Nowadays, fairy tales begin with, "According to experts..."




2) I want to be a billionaire like my dad.

He wants to become a billionaire too.




3) Never in the history of calming down has anyone ever calmed down by being told to calm down.




4) The sentence, "Are you as happy as I am?" can be said backwards and still make sense.

That's a strange mirror...

5) When a woman asks you to guess her age, it's like deciding whether to cut the blue wire, the green wire, or the red wire to defuse a bomb.




6) Brushing your teeth is the only time you clean your skeleton.




7) Somewhere in the world there is a tree that sprouted on the same day that you were born and has been growing along with you.




8) If I had a dollar for every time I was suspicious, I'd wonder who was paying me and why?




9) Someone once told me I have two faults.

I don't listen, and some other rubbish they were prattling on about.

"Gulp! I hope I don't make a mistake!"

10) In one of my previous jobs, the accountant had to go into hospital for surgery and before the operation she overheard one doctor quietly warn another, "Her husband is a lawyer." The inference being, 'Make sure you do a good job and don't make any mistakes because we don't want to get sued.'

I find it kind of worrying that those doctors apparently needed the threat of getting sued to encourage them to do a good job!

Surely doctors should be thinking, 'I don't want to make any mistakes because I don't want the patient to die or suffer any unnecessary complications'. If they did that then the legal implications wouldn't come into it.

You can find even more random thoughts - this time on specific subjects - below:
Random Star Wars thoughts
Random thoughts on nursery rhymes

Editor's note: "If the thoughts are on specific subjects, then they're hardly random, are they?"
Charles: "Okay, then. To clarify, it's curated topic-based randomness."