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Eagle Kids
Eion 1933
Jean 1940
Eion 1953
Eion and Jean Wedding
Eion Jean Wedding
Colin and Graeme play "cars"
Graeme, Catherine, Colin, Crystal Photos
Baby Caitlin
Colin Crystal Wedding
Perfect Angels
Jean HS Reunion
Bennett Reunion
Becky, x, Carol Alt, Laurie
Becky, x, Carol Alt, Laurie
Clan MacRae Society
Eilean Donan Castle, in Wester Ross, The Highlands of Scotland
What's New (and Old)
Explanations of self-explanatory
Explanation of "Browser"
Explanation Of "<grin>"
Explanation of "Links"
Why Eastern Time?
What's New?
Amazon.Com Associate
Bad Advice
Highlanders Return to Darien, Georgia
Browse item - IL12961
WebNode.com -- own a piece of the internet!
What's Old?
Random Thoughts - Home
Random Thoughts - Help
Random Thoughts - Machines
Random Thoughts - 0
Random Thoughts - Fusion Catalyst
Random Thoughts - E=mc^2
Random Thoughts - All Energy is Atomic
Random Thoughts - Belief System
Random Thoughts - Machines
Random Thoughts - 0
Story of Machines - 0
Graeme McRae -- my home page
About Graeme
Graeme McRae Biography
774 3LO Radio
Albany Street and Rt 18, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Graeme McRae: 2004 Santa Clarita Marathon
Graeme McRae: Odds and Ends
People
Ben
Experiences
Biz Dealings
Get a haircut, Barber shop, Quartz Hill, California
Fresh Bagged Spinach
Car Mechanic in Panorama City
Knott's Berry Farm, August, 1999
Lamppost Pizza in Tehachapi
Southern California Edison Water
My experience with the U. S. Postal Service
Express Mail Tracking & Delivery Confirmation
DMV Convenience Fee
Dr. Blue
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BlueSadWithNoPuppyYetCaitlin.jpg
BlueSadAtDennysWithNoPuppyYet.jpg
BlueRainyDrive32DegreesToSanDiego.jpg
BlueOld395Bridge.jpg
BlueFamilyWithPuppy.jpg
BlueMeghanGraemeBlue.jpg
BlueGetsComfortableInCar.jpg
BlueItSnowedInTheMountains.jpg
BlueDrivingHomeOnI115.jpg
BlueSnowInTheMountains.jpg
BlueSnowInTheMountains2.jpg
BlueSnowInTheMountains3.jpg
BlueMatthewAndBlue.jpg
Online experiences
My experience editing Wikipedia - XYZ Affair
Phishing
001-Sabrina Gold-15-5-Foreign Agent-Bankruptcy-UK
002-Frank Dickens-0.5-0.5-Winner-Lottery-Netherlands
003-Richard Salter-0.35-0.35-Beneficiary-Grant-Scotland
004-Gianni Mattioli-2.5-2.5-Recipient-Grant Donation-Italy
005-Christopher Marshall-12.5-6.25-Pose as owner-Embezzlement Death-UK
006-Graham Betts-2.5-2.5-Winner-Lottery-UK
007-Tony Monrow-xx-0.8-Partner-Funds Transfer-Paraguay
008-Ahmed Abba-20-5-Foreign Agent-Embezzlement-Nigeria
009-Paul Blake-xx-xx-Partner Assistant-Undisclosed-UK
010-Adams Smith-1.2-1.2-Winner-Lottery-UK
011-Brian Spencer-12.5-2.5-Pose as Next of Kin-Plane Crash Death-UK
012-Katharine S. Sorrells-0.5-0.5-Winner-Lottery-UK
013-Ben Spencer-20-0.5-Winner-Yahoo Lottery-UK
014-Cherry Rings-15-6-Charity agent-Death bed donation-Europe
015-Daniel Wallace-30-2-Winner-Lottery-UK
016-Pinkett Griffin-1-1-Winner-Lottery-UK
017-Marcus Morrison-0.9-0.9-Winner-Lottery-UK
018-Charles M. Beckman-0.25-0.25-Prize Winner-Product Promotion-UK
019-Betty Rice-0.5-0.5-Prize Winner-Product Promotion-Netherlands
020-Dan Griffith-1-1-Prize Winner-Ebay Product Promotion-UK
021-Tina Wallace-0.45-0.45-Winner-Lottery-UK
022-James W. Brian-23-4.6-Foreign Agent-Criminal Proceeds-Iraq
023-Lady Ann Green-20-20-Heir-Cancerous Ailment-UK
024-Silifat Al Fayadh-xx-xx-Foreign Agent-Undisclosed-Hong Kong
025-George Owen-30-0.8-Winner-Lottery-UK
026-John Lugard-2.5-2.5-Winner-Lottery-UK
027-Phil Smith-1.5-1.5-Winner-Lottery-UK
028-William Stevenson-xx-xx-Charity Agent-Death Bed Donation-United Arab Emirates
029-Patricia Hewitt-17.5-5.25-Charity Agent-Undisclosed-UK
030-Brown Van Der Mark-1.5-1.5-Cash Aid Award Winner-Charity Foundation-Netherlands
031-Richard Gozney-xx-xx-Scam Victim-Government Recompensation-Nigeria
032-Kalim Durak-xx-xx-Charity Agent-Undisclosed-Saudi Arabia
033-Paul Wilson-0.3-0.3-Prize Winner-Peugeot Product Promotion-UK
034-Debbi King-0.9-0.9-Winner-Lottery-UK
035-Mike John-0.5-0.5-Recipient-Grant Donation-Italy
036-Mark Morris-4.6-4.6-Winner-Lottery-UK
037-Catherine Jones-45-45-Next of kin-Benefactor death-Portugal
038-Fred Holifield-0.7-0.7-Winner-Yahoo Lottery-UK
039-Femi Coker-xx-xx-Foreign Agent-Undisclosed-UK
040-Mike Spencer-1-1--Prize Winner-BMW Product Promotion-UK
041-Robert Nelson-xx-xx-Recipient-Funds Transfer-UK
042-Kevin Mama-12-1.8-Foreign Agent-Diamond and gold mining-Sierra Leone
043-Brenda Moeller-2.8-0.9-Winner-Lottery-UK
044-Charles Harbert McKay-500-300-Foreign Agent-Embezzlement-UK
045-Andrew Charles Bignell-23-23-Partner-Undisclosed-UK
046-Abraham Abbasi-xx-xx-Recipient-Unclaimed Drafted Cheque-Spain
047-David Matoya-10-1-Winner-Lottery-Netherlands
048-Gary Armstrong-1-1-Winner-Lottery-UK
049-Robert Scheel-0.8-0.8-Beneficiary-Contract Inheritance-Spain
050-David Williams-30-1-Prize Winner-Texaco Product Promotion-UK
051-Bob John-1.2-1.2-Unsuccessful Partner-Compensation For Trying-Benin
052-Garry Josef-17-17-Next of kin-9/11 Death-UK
053-Williams Spencer-1.35-1.35-Winner-Irish Lottery-UK
054-Emmanuel Betong-5.25-1.575-Foreign Agent-Embezzlement-Ghana
055-Ed Harris-1-1-Winner-Lottery-UK
056-Reynold Hunter-2.5-2.5-Prize Winner-Visa Product Promotion-UK
057-Peter Hans-0.5-0.5-Winner-Lottery-Netherlands
058-Mike Smith-1-1-Winner-Free Lotto Promo-UK
059-William Buster-0.85-0.85-Winner-Lottery-UK
060-Bill Woods-0.82-0.82-Winner-Lottery-Canada
061-Rita Holms-17.5-17.5-Stand In Beneficiary-Impending Cancer Death-UK
062-Brown Van Der Marrk-0.9-0.9-Winner-Lottery-Netherlands
063-James Walker-0.65-0.65-Prize Winner-BMW Product Promotion-UK
064-MacDonald Philips-55-2.5-Winner-Lottery-UK
065-Song Lile-19.5-5.85-Partner-Business Proposal-Hong Kong
066-David Ben-10-10-Winner-Microsoft Mega Jackpot Lottery-UK
067-Scotty Moore-0.5-0.5-Prize Winner-Yahoo and MSN Microsoft Windows Promotion-UK
068-Daniel Grams-1.5-1.5-Winner-Lottery-UK
Language
Structure
Constructions
Double Entendre
Homo... That is, homonyms, homophones, and homographs
Contradictions
Oxymoron
Tropes - Words for ways to put words together, a.k.a. Figures of Speech, Literary Devices, Rhetoric
Wordy -- big words, too many words, catchy phrases
Language - Grammar
Spelling and Pronunciation
Euro Spelling - a joke poking fun at the idea of reforming English spelling
Ghoti -- a way to spell "fish"
Common Mispronunciations -- Nucular, Hunnerd, Ax, Ekcetra.
Punctuation -- funny examples
Words: a discussion of interesting words or usages
Neologisms - made-up words.
Wrong Word - A rundown of word misusage
Backformations - removal of prefixes or suffixes to form new words
Soz -- idiotic Internet slang for "sorry"
Translation and Dialects
Australian dialect
Translation with SYSTRAN
1. English -> French
2. French -> English
3. Eng -> French -> Eng
Movies
Twisted Characters
Fight Club
Fight Club DVD Warning
Funny Movies
Airplane, the movie
Airplane movie script
Zoolander
Numbers, including the "Brazilian" joke
Millions and Billions and Zillions -- how high can you count?
Poetry
Error Message Poetry
Abort, Retry, Ignore
Error Haikus
My POSSLQ, a poem by Charles Osgood
Elephant and Blind Men
Lyrics
Wise Country Words
"If My Nose Was Running Money" By Aaron Wilburn
Alabama Song -- Allison Moorer
Please Don't Bury Me -- John Prine
Hit Me (with your rhythm stick), by Ian Dury and the Blockheads
I Hold Your Hand -- by Tom Lehrer
I Hold Your Hand in Mine (midi)
Capturing a mood with poetry
Short Poems - poems that end abruptly (joke poems)
Rants - excited, bombastic, verbose grandiosity disproportionate to thought.
The Ant and the Grasshopper, a fable, updated to show how socialism interferes with the simple moral tale.
Ant and Grasshopper -- rebuttal from the the left
Ant and Grasshopper -- rebuttal^2, criticizing both viewpoints as completely idiotic
Rant about Fakes, page 1, Ryan and Jacob's scavenger hunt via email and website
Rant about Fakes, page 2, Ryan and Jacob's scavenger hunt via email and website
An Earlier Rant, page 3, Ryan and Jacob's scavenger hunt via email and website
Clues, page 4, Ryan and Jacob's scavenger hunt via email and website
Questionnaire, page 5, Ryan and Jacob's scavenger hunt via email and website
Manifesto, page 6, Ryan and Jacob's scavenger hunt via email and website
Gun Control
Winning the Cultural War - Charlton Heston 2/16/1999
Graeme's comments about Charlton Heston's speech
The Argument Against Gun Control
Netiquette
BCC — Blind Carbon Copy, and its moral implications
8 commandments of Netiquette
Lightbulb Jokes for Newsgroup Readers
Starr Report, Graeme's comments
Starr Report Cover
Starr Report Table of Contents
Starr Report Chronology
Starr Report Names
Starr Report Introduction
Starr Report Narrative
Starr Report Grounds
Starr Report Endpage
Starr Report altoids-blow-job-email.txt
Short Stories
Dark and Stormy Night - the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Mom's Dying Words
TV Shows
TV Commercials
TV Commercial -- Free Credit Report.com pirate
Chuck Lorre Productions
Chuck Lorre - Censored vanity cards
Chuck Lorre vanity cards: Schwarznegger
Chuck Lorre vanity card #230: advice for Levi Johnston
Chuck Lorre vanity card #226: Parents Television Council
Chuck Lorre vanity card #221: Truth by repetition
Chuck Lorre vanity card #217: near-dirty words
Chuck Lorre vanity card #179: retrograde ejaculation
Chuck Lorre vanity card #155: improving FCC criteria
Gilligan's Island - The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, and Amish Paradise
Words and Wisdom
Assumptions and hidden comparisons
Cow Philosophy -- World ideologies explained by reference to cows
Modern Words - neologisms for modern times
Brutal Fairy Tales
Long Sentence
Quotes: Donald Rumsfeld, G.W.Bushisms, More Bushisms, Recent quotes, Doublespeak: Carly Fiorina, Yogi Berraisms, Famous Last Words, Great Thinkers, and Kids Language
The famous Donald Rumsfeld quote: As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know...
George W. Bushisms -- silly things alledgedly said by the president
More Bushisms -- dopey things allegedly said by George W. Bush
Recent quotes - gaffes made by famous people
Doublespeak: Carly Fiorina, April, 2002
Yogi Berraisms
Famous Last Words
Great Thinkers
Kids Language -- Anguished English
Sayings
Ordinary Sayings
SPAM Sayings
Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
Ever Wonder?
Still Wondering?
These facts will make you say Hmmm...
Four All Who Reed and Right
Health FAQs (joke)
Hospital Chart Writings by Doctors - funny things written by doctors on medical charts
My Browser keeps closing on its own
My Mouse Doesn't Work
New Words - new joke definitions for existing words
Similes - cool as a cucumber, etc.
Virus Troubles
Assassins -- e.g. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald
Funny and Interesting things
Puns and Jokes
Jokes
"Old" jokes: She's so old that...
Google Pwefewences - Elmer Fudd wanguage (joke)
Funny Advertisements
Arabic TV (insensitive ethnic joke)
Bad Words - children learn to cuss
Funny Hair Salon Names
Funny Nail Salon Names
Other Punny Names
Common Sense jokes
Dear Abby Test (joke)
Headlines (jokes, double-entendres)
Funny responses from Hollywood Squares
Kennedy and Lincoln - a tongue-in cheek rundown of the coincidences in their lives and deaths
A Guide to American Newspapers -- a humorous explanation of what type of person reads each newspaper
Official Warnings (humorous)
Phony Phone Calls, Prank calls -- I See OJ call, as heard on the Howard Stern show
I See OJ (mp3)
President Wins Lottery - Joke response to a spammer
No Pun Intended
More Puns
Finding Bin Laden (joke)
Phoenix Suns Guard Steve Nash
Weathermen have funny names
Cheerleaders -- joke pictures of various cheerleaders
Interesting Websites
Personal Home Pages
Social Networking / Messaging
Cartoons
Opinion / Rant / Political -- funny or interesting websites with axes to grind
Games / Interactive Play -- fun websites
Factoids - interesting web sites
Games
Core Wars -- a computer game
Information
PMI
PMP Exam
Brain Dump
How to make a brain dump
Odds and Ends
Cute Gifs
Academic Decathlon 2000
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MiscAcademicDecathlon2000CaitlinSitting.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000DecathletesOnTheFootballField.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000ViewFromTheField.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000AroundTableCaitlinKaceyMichaelIanNickJoshAdamCRosemarieJustinAdamM.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000KaceySticksOutHerToungue.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000Lunch.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000StMatthiasHallStandingRoomOnly.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000LetsEat.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000MeghanIsProudOfHerBigSisterNowLetsEat.jpg
MiscAcademicDecathlon2000CaitlinWaiting.jpg
Birds imitate ring tones
California Lottery
calottery.xls
Gas Crisis 2000
Holiday schedule
Intelligence Test
Liquor, Guns, and Sybase Technical Support
MiscLiquorGuns02-c25.jpg
Cities whose elevation exceeds their population
Optical illusions and other tricks
Black Dot Illusion
Color Name illusion
Elephant Legs
Hanging Patio - perspective illusion
Hanging Patio - perspective illusion
Poiuyt a.k.a Blivet, Devil's Fork with a Penrose Frame and Hexnuts
Motion
Parallel Lines
Checker shadow illusion
Puzzles
Puzzle Answers: Hut, Bounce, Rovgbiy, Pies, Stuckstake, Pi, A0B2C0D2, Hardener, Mine, UFO
Puzzle Answers: Letter Group Puzzles
Professional Quiz - page 1
Professional Quiz - page 2
Professional Quiz - page 3
Professional Quiz - page 4
Professional Quiz - page 5
Einstein Quiz
Einstein Quiz - page 1
Einstein Quiz - page 2
Einstein Quiz - page 3
Einstein Quiz - page 4
Einstein Quiz - page 5
Einstein Quiz - page 6
Einstein Quiz - page 7
Einstein Quiz - page 8
Einstein Quiz - page 9
Einstein Quiz - page 10
Einstein Quiz - page 11
Einstein Quiz - page 12
Einstein Quiz - page 13
Einstein Quiz - page 14
Einstein Quiz - page 15
Breaking the Rules Quiz
Breaking the Rules - page 1
Breaking the Rules - page 2
Breaking the Rules - page 3
Breaking the Rules - page 4
Breaking the Rules - page 5
Breaking the Rules - page 6
Breaking the Rules - page 7
Breaking the Rules - page 8
Breaking the Rules - page 9
Breaking the Rules - page 10
Opinion
Psychology
The psychology of waiting
Stuff
The Nature of Stuff
Universe, Cosmology
Viewpoint
The Puddle
Time's Arrow Notes
What is Suffering?
Identity
Probability
Quantum Mechanics
Uncertainty
Schrodinger's Cat
Society and Progress
Human Interaction
Office Politics
Annoying Co-Workers
Running
Graeme's Running Story
Business Trip 2005-09-10, planning runs into the itinerary
Math Help
Here's what you'll find in this website:
Graeme
manages his own section of this site as well as
Math Help
.
Eion wrote the
Ian and Blanche
story,
Enjoying Little Restaurants in France
, and has other works in progress.
Other sections include:
Clan Macrae History
, Scotland, 15
th
-19
th
centuries.