The Spring of discontent has it's water pooped in by more discontented poopers.
"Oh" people will be saying "that New Zild is a stand-up-for-truth-justice-and-the-Macaroon-way sort of place". And so we are except in an actually doing that sort of way as opposed to a saying that...
View ArticleVerbs of a feather
Sometimes Science begins with a general observation:So Struhsaker was inspired to follow a band of vervet monkeys around the Masai-Amboseli game reserve in Kenya, recording their sleeping arrangements...
View ArticleThen, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number...
"What?!" exclaim the readers who were paying attention, both of you. "Has not Another Kiwi already covered the story of your Pry Mincer hobnobbing with unsavoury types like that plausibly-deniable...
View ArticleWhen a politicians talks of resurrection I reach for my shovel
The reader who has been paying attention to the seething viper pit suspended over a lake of lava and hanging by rusty cables that is Australian politics would have been glued to their iPod "tovarishch"...
View ArticleO brave new world, That has such people in't
"The Interlattice," said Another Kiwi over a pint of Mango-nel Weaponised Fruchtbier, "is like fire, or a bicycle, or an alligator pit... perilous in the wrong hands, but a great boon when used...
View ArticleAlong the world axis The Empress lay sleeping
According to the Riddled Dream Machine, she is dreaming of the Empress' Second-Hand Clothes. These are not quite so fine of weave or subtle of thread as her new clothes so they can still be seen by...
View ArticleIn the Peasemolds with AK
Here is poor old Another Kiwi contemplating his gardens which he left to the tender mercies of Greenish Hugh and Space Time Eddie whilst AK visited his aunt Griselda up North. Look at AK, he has his...
View ArticleIt's beginning to look a lot like Quartermass
A blogger at LGM updates us on the saga of Bertha, the 7000-tonne tunnelling machine currently stalled in the Seattle substrata after it encountered the wrong kind of soil and overheated and blew a...
View ArticleIt's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Grist mass
Here is the spacious new Riddled brewery premises and mastitis clinic, finished just in time for the maturation of the Christmas Ale. We asked the architect whether it really needed all the...
View ArticleBreams of the Sea-rabbit Fiend
Alternative title: Do androids bream of electric eels?Another Kiwi took a long weekend off to go up north and see his Auntie Grizelda. It is a fraught journey through the wilderness where the pampas...
View ArticleLight the blue touchpaper and stand well clear.
Life continues to be a trial for Evangaline van Holsterin's owl, Destroyer of Worlds Raining of Carnage or, as he is known in the hootery, Gimpy. Firstly Evangelines idiot boyfriend tried to get Gimpy...
View ArticleGift Ideas for the Whale in your life
1. Cephalopod head-wear.Hey lookit me everyone! I are Pacman ghost! I are octopus! Please not eat me! HURR HURR2. A fine tooth comb. Only suitable for baleen whales. Oh sure, you could give any old...
View ArticleUp in the hills, An apparition
Off to climb mountains tomorrow.* Normal service will be resumed.Until then, according to our hack into Sony databases, here is a character scheduled to appear in future series of "SpongeBob...
View ArticlePost Christmas Toupée
"I do not think" said tigris "that the Almond trees have ever looked so Almondy, before"."I have seen Almond trees in South Australia" I said."Really" said tigris, "did they look very Almondy?""It was...
View ArticleAt least it's not autoerotic asphyxiation
"It looks like you've blown a seal.""It's a Minorite Monk seal" said Ziphius. "What do you expect? I'm an immoral porpoise."
View ArticleMelted into air, into thin air
Fox News experts inform us that when aeroplanes disappear in storms over Indonesia it is because the non-American aviation world measures temperatures in Celsius so everything is colder. Also...
View ArticleNew year's dissolution (it was the final barrier)
"Another year has come and gone," I said, "possibly not in that order, and once again the hard-working Riddled staff failed to feature in the New Year's Honours List, being insufficiently...
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