Can you spell cacophony?

My name is Phil and I’m a Pharmacist, you bring me your medicine list.
Cough or cold, I can fix your issue, I can even sell you a box of tissues.
To be like me study is intensive and these drugs back here are rather expensive.
So at night to help sleep sound, CGU is the best all round.
Whoever you are – PHIL
Whatever you do – PHARMACIST
we put the U in CGU.

I wonder if I would find this as funny if I didn’t go to uni with another Phil the Pharmacist?

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I was doing an image search for a diabetes handout at work the other day when I came across this beauty.

The photographer has quite cleverly knitted a pancreas-shaped pouch to carry all of her diabetes paraphernalia around in. Clever because:

1. Anyone who can knit is clever in my book
2. The bits and pieces all together perform the function that the pancreas should be doing in the first place.
3. It also shows a particularly good sense of humour. Like one commenter said: “You just have to use humour in life sometimes, don’t you??”

If you or anyone you know has diabetes you might be interested in visiting Diabetes WA or have a look around for your local diabetes support group.

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Edit 2009-05-27: I thought I should try to give credit for the above. I found it posted in a recent discussion at dragonsfoot. Now I don’t know who to blame for the “inspirational poster”, but I think that the artist responsible for the Orc Chick herself is Ursula Vernon. I couldn’t find this specific image anywhere, but Ursula has painted the same “model” on Elfwood (warning: NSFW) and I reckon they match. As per the FAQ giving permission to post images to the net, I hereby give credit to the appropriate recipient!

I read this on the [ABC news site][1] today:

> So-called hate crimes are on the rise, with dozens killed in racially motivated attacks so far this year.

Now I know this is a very serious issue (especially for those belonging to minorities in Russia) but I couldn’t hold back a snigger when I remembered hate crimes in [Life on Mars][2]:

>Sam Tyler: I think we need to explore whether this attempted murder was a hate crime.
Gene Hunt: What as opposed to one of those I-really-really-like-you sort of murders?

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/07/2383780.htm
[2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/lifeonmars/

I’ve have yet to win NaNoWriMo, but I am really determined this year. When I win (note that I said when, not if), I want to have a winning story like Ensis here. Talk about determination! Break and enter and everything! I don’t want my computer to break first though!