Posts in Humour
Words Worth Noting - August 13, 2025

“REMEMBER/ PERFORM HAND HYGIENE”

Sign I encountered just outside “DAY SURGERY WAITING ROOM” in Ottawa Hospital Riverside at 6:30 AM on a January 2025 morning, then a graphic of someone’s hands getting either soap or sanitizer to clarify this atrocious jargon [to be fair followed by the French plain-language “RAPPEL/ LAVEZ VOUS SOUVENT LES MAINS”]

Words Worth Noting - August 5, 2025

“For, ex hypothesi, he is as insensible to all rational argument as a horny-hided Siegfried, dipped in the flood of incapacity, and unable to think or judge.”

Arthur Schopenhauer, “The Art of Controversy,” in Jack E. Conner & Marcelline Krafchick Speaking of Rhetoric [condescendingly, the reference is to an ordinary man as an opponent in argument but I treasure the phrase “dipped in the flood of incapacity”]