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A posable thumb
Congratulations to Doktorling Sonja.Harsh words would be said about "invasion of privacy" if I posted a recognisable photograph of her, so instead here's a picture of a cat with polydactyly.
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Can't call the fire brigade / None of them have been paid
BLCKGRD reminded us last week that it was Peter Hammill's 65th birthday.Quite apart from the prescience of "The Institute of Mental Health (is Burning)", it will make a perfect national anthem for the...
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A chariot will take me to The Valley of the Kings
"Any progress with the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society live-action remake of 'Wacky Races'?" asked tigris, frowning at her clipboard. Another Kiwi and I aren't allowed clipboards any more after one or...
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Dreams of the Rare Bite Fiend
Continuing our series of unauthorised and unethical misuses of the RiddledDream Machine, in this week's "Nightmares of the Medical Professions" we ask the age-old question, "What do Dentists dream...
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A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky [updated]
When we saw the misshapen red entities on the after-hours surveillance footage from the Old Entomologist we thought they were ordinary orbs, losing their shape on exposure to the fumes of Barrel-Aged...
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Walk on water float on air
After last night's meeting of the "Diurodrilus affiliations within Spiralia and Beer-Name Anagrams Working Group" at the Old Entomologist broke up in the usual disarray over the lack of decent anagrams...
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The means of your life, create and melt
It wasn't easy to create an all-consuming blobmonster -- a "black viscid pool of living ooze" without shape or structure, enveloping and dissolving all flesh, not entirely unlike Christmas Ale -- the...
View Article"Reporters should know better than to highlight a handful of random attacks...
Remember, there is more to being a journalist than being a kid and attacking people at random.
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When you hear hoofbeats in the night...
...take a homeopathic preparation of Zebra until symptoms cease.An informal survey of the clientele at the Old Entomologist ascertained the following:Swearing Bob ascribes the sound of hoofbeats to...
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Season of mists and yellow frightfulness
"Sodding alien invasions," Old Jem averred, raising his voice to be heard above the vesper bells, and none could gainsay him. For the aliens do chose the damnedest times to invade... at harvest-tide...
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Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,And threw warm gules on...
People these days do not appreciate a Keats hommage. When I do that, the Frau Doktorin is not well pleased, and there is discouraging talk about the advantages of the spare room as an alternative place...
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You can't spell Pantomime without Ptomaine
The script for "A Very Riddled Christmas" -- this year's end-of-year production from the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society -- emerged from a marathon Script Workshop and Velcro Barfly Night at the Old...
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We are at war with Christmas (and Podia). We have always been at war with...
Here in Antipodia the time approaches to celebrate Paraphernalia, ancient Roman festival of whimsical gadgetry and tools too specific to be used more than once.Now available from the Riddled Gift...
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The Persecution and Assassination of 240 Laboratory Rats as performed by...
Here at the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society we are not entirely unfamiliar with hostile reviews, so we could sympathise with Séralini et al. upon hearing that their 2012 paper -- "Long term toxicity...
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This armoured dinosaur from the Cretaceous has very thick lower legs. It is a...
1. Greenish Hugh’s apologies were read into the minutes. 2. Another Kiwi opened the meeting by speculating in a totes cogent manner as to the culinary potential of stegosaurus meat. He pointed to...
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Lazy Glen Baxter blogging
"With just a handful of twigs and a snow-stuffed rabbit skin you can construct your own Nativity Scene", the Métis trapper consoled Conrad.
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Death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits; but mostly...
Ten thousand several doors represents a substantial amount of capital tied up in depreciatable assets... Death would do well to trade them all in for a single Portable Door. Of course the only thing...
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