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"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed."It's the best there is," Doc...
That is some sage advice there, which I follow all the time even without signs to remind me... but it could be argued that if you are bewaring of something then it can't be sudden. Or if it is sudden...
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Wellington Airport: Not a recommended venue for children's parties
In our day the Pinning-the-Tail party game provided quite enough excitement. Kids today!A couple of years ago, the big attraction out at the airport was the opportunity to fist-fuck a ram. If the...
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Où sont les beiges d'antan?
It is hard to venture down to the Old Entomologist at the moment, what with the sports screen up on the wall, and the non-stop Winter Olympics action, so here at Riddled Research Laboratory we have...
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Today's weather report is brought to you by the Nuremberg Chronicle Colour...
A freak fall of hailstones with the faces of lions pelted the Old Town soon after lunchtime, causing widespread damage to skylights, crops and expensive gentleman's headware. The sky cleared later in...
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The universe (which others call the Hive) is composed of an indefinite,...
Apparently all the cool bloggers are compiling Listicles these days. With that in mind, here are Six Artists working with the Beehive motif. It must be a tradition, or an old charter or something.1....
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"Robertson Davies, James Blish, and Dorothy Sayers.""I'll take 'Which authors...
Please stop your lion from eating the musicHere at the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society we have experience of the struggle to wrest incomplete or fragmentary scripts into a fit state for performance,...
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With a Strange Device*
With Bottom's Syndrome reaching epidemic proportions among the New Zealand teaching profession, and head-first transformations into donkeys becoming a daily event, it was time for prompt decisive steps...
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Objects reflected in dreams seem larger than they are
I spent a lot of time wondering how Leonor Fini achieved this special effect in her paintings, whereby the reflection of each object looks larger than the object itself -- contrary to geometrical...
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Miskatonic University sent a team of researchers to thaw out samples of...
No giant fire-breathing lizards with a nuclear-fission metabolism? No archaic, unimaginably tenacious life-forms with fivefold symmetry belonging to no known phylum, or protean entities reshaping...
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Get off of the pickanick table, angels. You are not salad-dressing and...
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from _______""Kate Beckinsale", Another Kiwi vouchsafed. "A number of small furry animals", tigris had written. "Religion", was my...
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None more other blogs
Other blogs may have jetpack cats, but how many other blogs have jetpack cats wearing Scramble Suits to conceal their identities??...Wearing Scramble Suits to conceal their identities while they chase...
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The Flabber Ghasts itself
This piece of Churnalism-at-its-best came out last week amid much ballyhoo, whatever "ballyhoo" might be; I suspect it to be a small town in Ireland. My gob was initially too smacked to comment while...
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"He galloped steadily and powerfully. There were other horses nearby, other...
Dimly, as in a hallucination, Casher O'Neill could also see the little orbital ship in which the old horse cantered in mid-air, with an amused cadet sitting on his back."Illustrating Cordwainer Smith...
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Mr Spiggott - you are, I believe, auditioning for the part of Tarzan a...
As the mystery of vanished flight MH370 continues, with searchers misdirected for days because sections of the Malaysian government conceal information rather than admit to their own incompetence,...
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Get out of that shoulder-bag, cat. You're not supposed to be there
You are not a 2008 ECVP Program, or a complimentary conference notepad and pen.
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Lucius Shepard 1943-2014
His research into magnetotaxy in humans (by way of neurophilic magnetotactic bacterial symbiotes, noticeable through their green bioluminescence in the retina of the host) was published in 1984. It was...
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