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Directing traffic
We are a sturdy and stalwart self-reliant crowd in New Zealand. At the Old Entomologist we are accustomed to making our own entertainment during the long dreary nights between one season of Doctor Who...
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Look, the plastic dome is empty
The Cerebrozoid Overlord must be occupied at its feeding station! Here is our chance to board the Arachnobot, master the controls, and make our escape!Bugs Bunnies with pancakeswater drops on their...
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As the water come rushing overAs the water come rushing in
Our enthusiasm for this new deluge-related approach to local-government protests knows no bounds: WHEELING - Opponents of a proposed natural gas frack water recycling plant in Warwood inundated City...
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Lost or Stolen:One Pantomime Horse costume
The performance is not quite the same without it.We may have to go all meta and write a new script, for "The Emperor's New Pantomime Horse Costume".UPDATED: B4 in comments raises the topic of "erotic...
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Deer friends
Riddled Enterprises latest product achieves a long hoped for combination of historical theme and sausages. Now your children can learn about the fascinating, mysterious and economically important world...
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Birtherday Treats
"Oh" people will say "has that no-good Another Kiwi forgotten his birthday and left us with no birthday treats."Do not fear, dear friends, one has arisen from one's chaise longue and scruntled around...
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You can't have eschatology without scatology, eh?
It is not clear whether Robertson Davies had visited the Hunterian Museum when he wrote The Rebel Angels: Where else but the Hunterian, after all, can you go to look at a bishop's rectum?This is a...
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The Kathy Acker Memorial Cup for inadequately-digested re-use of someone...
...Gregory Benford and Larry Niven! Looking through the menu, Cliff thought about the colors of edible food here. Evolution geared animals and people alike to like the colors of things that were good...
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Trouble brewing
 Part of the trouble was that Smut had to go and see his Aunt Griselda up north for a while. The poor dear has gone all Gender Uncertain what with the legalising of gay marriage here and dogs lying...
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Et in Akkadia ego
"When you look at the cultural role of Dr Who over the last five thousand years," sez I in the Explaining Voice, "he has always been a kind of Trickster archetype -- unconcerned with social strictures,...
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Why is a mouse that spins?
Of course we knew Robert Naviaux back when he was paying his dues, playing small neighbourhood bars and researching dark chocolate as a cure for muscle dysfunction, heart disease and...
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Testing the re-entry heat shield
Of course some people will wonder "Is there really any scientific value in being the first blog to bring a blind albino penguin (Aptenodytes albus) safely from orbit back to Earth?" but to Thundra and...
View Article"Personally, If there was a news item illustrating a BOC song EVERY Day, I...
Present for ZRM!. Police say they are trying to determine how a medical box containing a pair of eyeballs ended up in a trash bin at a gas station in Kansas City. Police spokesman Steve Young says a...
View ArticleStraw-Man, likes walks on the beach, red herrings and Shifting Goalposts,...
This is the sort of thing we have to deal with in the Riddled Classified Personals Department.Also too, don't forget Act Like a Jack Vance Character Day.
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Obamas funnin' on the press so far, so normal. Real aficionados should fast forward to 6.53 for a look at Newt and Callista.He looks like he has some prime ass DC weed in him, she doesn't quite...
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"They migrate to new places and particularize, whereupon languages mutate,...
To celebrate "Act Like a Jack Vance Character" Day we kicked it Nolde-school as we say at Riddled (thereby revealing an unhealthy preoccupation with Danish-German expressionist painters) and sought...
View ArticleAre you telling me that it's illegal to imitate the Skyclad monks of Jainism?
Apparently it is contrary to Catholicism for men to wear gowns or robes:*Before the show began, Luzon stood outside the building in which the theater is located, and where several San Diego news...
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Halfway through the project, Mole realised that he did not have enough room...
and wished that he had stuck to his original idea of constructing Aalto plywood furniture.
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Round its funeral pyre the flames will churn
It is just like antibiotics. "Burn it with fire," the customers demand, so the pest exterminators oblige, never stopping to think that their indiscriminate flame-related treatments are hastening the...
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Hyphenation: Not just for double-barrelled English surnames
No surprises there. There is little point in courting pacifist ones.Via.
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