Hazar for random stuff

Hey,

Click on "View my complete profile" on the left and you will see my interests. Well, in the old days they would have purely been interests, these days people find "keywords" that easily define them. Anyhoo, I've listed a few interests, and, for wont of a better term, I finished up with "random stuff." Click on random stuff and you will see that a small number people think that random stuff is indeed, a very valid interest.

Now, first time I looked at this it amused me that people always seemed to end their list of pithy keywords with "random stuff" and I thought that it might be a universal rule that "random stuff" will only ever be the final item in people's lists of interests. It then dawned on me that Blogger counts "random stuff" and "random stuff." differently, and only people with a penchant for correct punctuation will appear in the "random stuff." list, whereas the others appear in this list. So much for Edwin's Law of Universal Random Stuff Finality, although I still think there is space for an article on the subject on Wikipedia.

But all of this begs the question, what is "random stuff"? For mine, "random stuff" refers to a sense of humour that is heavily dependent on doing or saying the thing those in your company are least likely to expect. For example, rather than finishing emails with "hope you have a nice day" you instead write "thank you, kind sir, for your assistance with the suits. I hope the wife gets over her spot of gout." That is "random stuff", and quite humourous too.

For others, "random stuff" may refer to reading news items like this and then talking about it loudly at pubs. The best response to that, of course, is the oft-heard phrase "why the hell would you want to know that?" Ahh, delightfully random.

In any event, "random stuff" is what keeps us giggling throughout the day, or at least keeps a quizzical look in our eyes, and I for one want to issue a huge Hazar for Random Stuff!

~Cedric~
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