Is it safe?

It occurs to me to wonder why, in some countries at least, we spend many formative months of our children's lives doing all we can to convince them that bears are cute and cuddly.

At the German bookstore

I went to the bookshop last time I was in Germany looking for some Lewis Carroll... the only German-language version I could find was "Alice in Ordnung".

Modern malapropism

Overheard recently:

"Well, yes, I did hear him say that, but I think it was just a Freudian slit".