When Chemists Attack

We went to a local Asian restaurant recently. In addition to the traditional American fork, we were also provided with chopsticks.

I’m not sure about the glonous history and cultual, but the chopsticks can’t be that hard to use, right?

Here are the directions. Step 1:

Um, I’m not sure I have a tnurnb, but on to Step 2:

Chcostick? Okay, now I’m thoroughly confused. But I’ll press on to Step 3:

I guess I can pick up anything. With my fork!

(On a later visit to the same restaurant, we found that the supplier of the chopsticks had corrected the hideously mangled English on the chopstick packet. Bravo!)

From The Weather Channel’s web site, we get this gem:

So is the next storm going to be Typhoon Well Hung?

[The funniest part about this unfortunate name was listening to the Weather Channel TV hosts trying to talk about it, but I can’t put that up on the blog.]