Ken Dodd (1927-2018)
I am posting this at 2.22pm on February 2nd, 2022. That's 2.22 on the second day in the second month of the year 2022. You could even sing it like this: "Toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-too!" As Ken Dodd, the late Liverpudlian comedian might have remarked, "How tickled I am!" to have stumbled upon such a thing. Not all days can be as silly as this one so let's enjoy it as long as we can. A bit of silliness is good for the soul..."Toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-toot-too!"
P.S. The name of this font is "Courgette". As far as I know, there is no font called "Zucchini"!
Good old Doddy.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember that old tongue twister... "Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead" ? I only managed to say it a couple of times before falling over it.
Were you drunk or was his dog lying in front of your hearth?
DeleteI believe 2 is considered a lucky number in the Chinese culture. With all those 2s in today's date, it should be a good day.
ReplyDeleteWell thanks for that helpful tidbit Melinda! Do you know Neil Young?
DeleteIt's also Lunar New Year. Does that mean it's a particularly lucky year?
DeleteI wonder why on earth they named the font "courgette"?!
ReplyDeleteJust to annoy Americans who imagine that a zucchini is a courgette.
DeleteBut it is, Courgette is French for Zucchini.
DeleteRiver is right. Do you (YP) just stick these statements in your posts to see if we're thinking? lol
DeleteWritten down the way we do that here in Germany, today is 02.02.2022. And from what I have read, our registry offices have been swamped with requests from couples wanting to get married today (and preferably tie the knot at 2:22 pm). I wish them all the best!
ReplyDeleteFonts can have interesting names. When I still worked in desktop publishing, I was able to discern and name about 200 different fonts. Courgette never appeared in any of our fonts books. On my blog, I used Trebuchet for a years, but after Blogger's last system update, it does not show properly anymore, and now I use Verdana.
I normally use Merriweather which is a higher class kind of font favoured by sophisticated bloggers.
DeleteDid you ever apply to be one of the diddymen?
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher I did not wish to be caught up in a tickling stick scandal. It could have ruined my "career". (Note the inverted commas)
DeleteAnd my younger daughter is 32 on this day. Too bad it's not 22. :)
ReplyDeleteTwo more two's! And how many eyeballs has your daughter got? How many nostrils?
DeleteThere is also Cowboy time : 10 to 10. Repeat many times.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a horse being ridden at speed!
DeleteI'm just going to be pedantic here (to fill in for a certain blogger who shall be nameless but whose initials are YP) and say that the time and date ACTUALLY reads oh-two-two-two-oh-two-oh-two-two-two ... which is still pretty catchy :)
ReplyDeleteBoo-hoo! You rained on my parade. When I was schoolboy we dated essays in our exercise books in this way - 2/2/22 and never 02/02/22. So there!
Delete0222-02-0222???
Delete"Hello, Adelaide mental health crisis team. How can we help you?"
DeleteRiver: 02:22 (time) 02-02-22 (date)
DeleteThank you, I hadn't realised you included the time.
DeleteI'm holding out for the year 2222 and if I live that long, perhaps I can remain until the year 2525 and learn if man is indeed still alive.
ReplyDeleteIs your surname Zager or Evans?
DeleteThis post does not work at all for me, as it arrived at 1.22 am 3/2/22.
ReplyDeleteOh Christ! I despair.
DeleteTasker is too much a man of the Enlightenment to embrace numerology but he and you could together solve Cicada 3301.
ReplyDeleteThe solution to the enigma should then be locked in a time-vault (in a secret location in North Yorkshire) and not opened until March 3 3033.
Beginners, see Wikipedia: Cicada 3031.
*Cicada 3031: An Internet Mystery.* YouTube. Lemmino.
Tasker and I would prefer to embrace foaming pints of Yorkshire bitter while sighing about the good old days. You could buy the next round and later we would go for a curry.
DeleteNay, I never Sup on Curry or any of them Foreign Vittels, Your Honour:
ReplyDeleteA glass of Ale in Haworth Old Hall, a Simple Meal of Bread and Cheese.
A God-fearing Calvinist such as Myself can hope for no more.
I pray never to set Eyes again on the Ghost of Catherine Earnshaw, for that would mean she is an Earth-Bound Spirit, like Master Heathcliff no doubt.
Nay, we shall have no more Talk of Occult Mysteries, Sire.
They bring on Bad Dreams, Bad Dreams I say.
And the Wind's on the Moors, blowing Night and Day.
Hush thee Mr Linton! Tha knows nowt about them moors up theer and the secrets they hold in them rocks and in gullies weer yon grouse n' linnet reside.
DeleteI noticed that number pattern this morning but it took you to make a post of it. Nice going!
ReplyDeleteI thank you kind sir.
DeleteI think I called you Ian instead of Neil. So sorry:)
ReplyDeleteAs Paul Simon sang, "You can call me Al" if you want to.
DeleteSomeone quite logically has pointed out that it is a different date in their part of the world and of course since time began way before 2/02/2022 it is just made up ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you for this wise intervention.
DeleteIt's a very nice font. I'm a bit tickled by today's date too, all the 2s
ReplyDelete2222222222222222222222222222222222 :)
Were you wearing a tutu when you wrote this River?
DeletePJ's and fluffy socks.
DeleteToo late here, too - I've just read your blog in Courgette typeface, but I'm a day late to appreciate the play on numbers!
ReplyDeleteIs it too personal to ask if you have a tickling stick YP?
Far too personal you young hussy!
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