The weird and wonderful world of Google

It's incredible to think that as recently as 1997, Google didn't even exist! Nowadays pretty much everyone has heard of Google, so this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog takes a look at the weird and wonderful world of Google!

1) Strange maths

To start things off, here's one question where I'm not convinced that Google is telling the truth...

A surprisingly heavy pound of water!

According to Google, a pound a water weighs 8.36 pounds!

Silly tautologies (part 2)

When I'm feeling lazy I often use stuff left-over from a previous blog post in a follow up post, and this week is one of those weeks as I take another look at silly tautologies!

In summary, I've summarised the report in a short
summary comprising these five volumes.

As fans of tautologies will know, a tautology is when you use needless repetition of a word or phrase in an unnecessarily repetitive manner.

Here are a few more examples...

1) Short summary

A short summary? Surely all summaries are short?

If it was a long summary then it wouldn't be a summary!

A quick guide to 2020 for time travellers from the past

A new decade has arrived, so for the benefit of any time travellers who have came to visit the future (our present) from the past (your present), here's a quick guide to life in the year 2020...

1) The 'internet'

Harry the Hedgehog can now use the 'internet' to let all
his old school friends know what he had for dinner!

One of the biggest inventions of the future is that all the computers in the world are now linked up together via something called the 'internet'.

To explain the concept, this 'internet' can be used to access information on any subject imaginable, such as science, medicine, history, and other amazing discoveries about the world we live in! In effect, the internet is like having access to a massive million volume encyclopedia of information right at your fingertips!

People don't use the internet for this, though. Most people just use it to look at funny cat videos and to show your old school mates what you had for dinner.

Funny things kids say (part 8)

One of my favourite themes to feature on the Charles Fudgemuffin blog is my occasional series of blog posts entitled 'Funny things kids say' featuring amusing quotes and nuggets of wisdom from kids.

As I've mentioned before, one of my favourite pieces of advice is 'Do more or what makes you happy', so in keeping with my own advice, what better way to end the year than with another collection of funny things kids say taken as usual from the internet and real life...

Editor: "Charles, it's not that type of kid."
Charles: "Oh, that's a relief. Otherwise it would have
just been 10 quotes going, "Bleat! Bleat! Bleat!

1) The voice of experience

To start things off, here are some wise words which I suspect come from the voice of experience...

"When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair."

2) Loophole

Here's a conversation from reddit featuring a kid who is an expert at finding loopholes...

Christmas 'higher or lower' quiz (part 2)

One of my previous blog posts which is quite popular (even during the summer, bizarrely) is my Christmas 'higher or lower' quiz. So to cater to market forces, here's another Christmas themed quiz featuring another batch of 'higher or lower' conundrums...

"Should my hat be higher or lower?"

1) Battle of the sexes

To start things off, here's a straight forward question. Who spends more on Christmas shopping; men or women?

A) Men
B) Women

Men or women?

10 Christmas jokes (part 4)

Christmas is only a few days away, so to celebrate here's another batch of Christmas and Santa themed jokes...

Santa, Blitzen and Rudolf.

1) I put Rudolf and Blitzen on eBay the other day, but no-one bid for them.
They were two deer.


2) Grandma: "What are you giving Mom and Dad for Christmas?"
Young kid: "A list of everything I want!"


3) How did Mary and Joseph figure out baby Jesus was exactly 7lb 9oz?
They had a weigh in a manger

'Yes, Prime Minister' quotes

Next week the UK goes to the polls to vote in another general election. Politics seems to be an increasingly emotional subject nowadays, so to help any particularly heated voters chill out and relax, this week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog features a collection of humorous quotes from one of the favourite TV programmes from my youth, the classic political sitcom, 'Yes, Minister,' and its imaginitively titled sequel, 'Yes, Prime Minister'.

Downing Street. The home of both the real Prime Minister,
and Jim Hacker, the fictitious Prime Minister from
the political sitcom, 'Yes, Prime Minister'.

For those who aren't familiar with Yes, Prime Minister, the main characters were the Prime Minister, Jim Hacker, and the head civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby who tried to prevent the Prime Minister from actually doing anything! Sir Humphrey basically believed that democracy couldn't be trusted to the general public or the politicians the public voted for!

To clarify, Yes, Prime Minister was a fictional sitcom, but a lot of the storylines and quotes were very close to the truth...

1) Jim Hacker: "So, we're going to tell them the truth?"
Sir Humphrey Appleby: "The truth, and nothing but the truth."
Jim Hacker: "The whole truth?"
Sir Humphrey Appleby: "Of course not!"