Category Archives: Amusing

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Brilliant spoof: The Shocking-But-False Story of America’s Blackstronauts — “My god, space is one cold motherfucker!” (via eskimokaka)

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Dissecting TRFZB

Amazon provides a fun little thing called “Text Stats” when you’re on a book page. Here’s what it threw up for TRFZB. We learn that the book’s Flesch-Kincaid Index is 10.2, that it contains 4503 sentences, and that a whopping … Continue reading

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Googly Moogly Maps

Everybody and their mother is linking to Google maps these days, so who am I not to. If you’ve played around with its “satellite option”, you’ll agree that it’s an incredibly cool toy to mess around with. Then there’s those … Continue reading

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Second Only To The Throne Itself

Wikipedia‘s Feature Article for today: the complete annotated history of the European toilet paper holder. Including of course, a Marxist perspective.

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23 Quick Tips

23 quick tips on how to survive in an agency without actually doing much work. I’ve never ever been guilty of #1, #3 and #12…

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Dunglish

Where Dutch and English collide: Dunglish. With life actors!

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Bullet

Woody Allen – Standup Comedian: Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet…a bullet, and I put it in my breast pocket. Two years after that, I was walking down the street, when a berserk evangelist heaved a Gideon bible … Continue reading

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13 Things

New Scientist: 13 things that do not make sense. Surprisingly, this is not one of them.

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Memories Of El Monte

Shocking news from the world of Little League Baseball: The team says El Monte is 12 and has a Web site to prove it. Born on April 7, 1989, Kenny’s mother was a groupie who traveled with Frank Zappa’s Mothers … Continue reading

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Spider Of Destiny

Have you ever stopped to think how lucky God was to have the help of Spiderman?

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El Hombre de la Síndone

In the “People Who Have Way Too Much Time On Their Hands” department, I give you this: — El Hombre de la Síndone es Frank Zappa! Via Balint who also babelfished the Spanish text to English.

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Analyzing Jon Bon

On the genius that is Bon Jovi: “To begin, I’d like to look at the opening verses of “Bed of Roses”. You may think you understand the meaning behind this poem – that John Bon Jovi likes a lady, and … Continue reading

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Bush In Belgium

From the inbox: “Hey Barry, Bush is in Brussels. Any way to keep him from coming back here? Disable the airlines? Try him for extreme stupidity? You would be a hero to 280 million people…” Well no, but I know … Continue reading

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The Do-Re-Mi’s of Personality

Use the amazingly accurate musical chicken to measure your personality: my results. (thanks Duncan)

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You Are In Belgium Here!

When G Dubya arrives on the tarmac of Brussels airport next Feb 21, here’s what may await him. Priceless.

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