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TIME magazine:
Unable to tell the difference between Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuego.POTUS Obama does not appear to be leading military operations in Havana, so it is not clear why Melissa Chan felt the need to call...
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A working-class Nero is something to be
By way of the usual Republican / TIME courtiers, we are informed that Donald Trump regards himself as a blue-collar billionaire, a self-made man.As in all his other construction activities, he seems to...
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Jumping someone else's train
Alternative Title: Tubeway BarmyFrom the Font of All Knowledge, I have learned that Charles Babbage (of early computing fame) also invented the cow-catcher, during his parallel work in the expanding...
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Early drafts of Bach's allegorical novel were called "Jonathan Livingstone...
Above: The Vulgar Little Mouse acquired that name from its habit of drinking Kestrel 9% all afternoon, reciting dirty limericks and all 18 verses of the Ball of Kerrymuir, and puking in letter-boxes on...
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But what about the deposit? Oh that'll brush off
How were we to know, when we rented a hot-air balloon for Five Weeks in a Balloon -- this autumn's production of "Jules Verne in the Open Air" from the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society -- that the...
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Things that make one ashamed to be an alcoholic #66
Gluten-Free Vodka.Unlike most vodkas, which are made from grain, CÎROC™ Ultra-Premium Vodka is gluten-free and distilled from fine French grapes; a process inspired by over a century of wine-making...
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The food here is terrible!And such small servings!
Nevertheless, Mrs Spat and Doodleston Strawberry Fairypoo deign to accept the house-apes' offerings of sweetcorn.In contrast to emetic impairment among rodents, vomiting is not so much an ability for...
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Crowds of Witless
"Whatever became of the private investigation into the death of Jeff Bradstreet under suspicious circumstances?" That is a question we hear after each screening of a Columbo episode, in the course of...
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Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it....
It was Monday morning and the sun was a bowl of soured milk in the sky so I went out and shook the stupid tree, and look what an embarrassment of riches fell out!"You have stopped making sense,"...
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowd-funding [Serious...
Back in the days, someone with smarts and experience warned against goofling for "GcMAF + GoFundMe"'unless you are in the mood for a long parade of sadness and exploitation, in which the phrase...
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Letting the days go by, 365 of them since last ALaJVC Day
And you might ask yourself, How did I get here?And you might ask yourself, Why am I dressed this way -- in the habit of a Cupatory Nun of the Littoral Dispensation, on the Isle of Varve in the...
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I have no time for your house-ape jibber-jabber
Mrs Spat has garden-rubbish sacks to inspect.
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Laughing Jack -- Not just a murderous clown from Creepypasta
Alternatively known as Laughing Jim, Giant Flamecap, Spectacular Rustgill and Prächtiger Flämmling, all of which are acceptable names for adventurers in a Fritz Leiber novel, singly or together....
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Spam, Spam, Spam, Pathos and Spam
The award for 'Most Embarrassingly Pathetic Plea for a Pity-Fuck from a wannabee predatory publisher' goes to...Bio Accent!From Renu and Ravi Kuppala, of Hyderabad. Not only naming their company like a...
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They are the Mothers! Mothers!Do you fear? The Mothers! Mothers! Strange the...
The details of hipster fermentation, if done properly, are even ickier than I realised: I don't remember that from the Philip Jose Farmer story. Here, it seemed, was the ultimate source of all...
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Distraction Watch
It was Friday, so I walked around the trapline to see if the Stupid Traps had snared anything. And oh yes, there was Stupid aplenty, enough for everyone, but of such a nature that I find myself working...
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Visions of a parallel world: 3rd Tlön Conference on Uqbar Management and...
Here at the Riddled High-Energy Experimental Literature Laboratory, we were impressed by the following cast-list. It appears to have been constructed from a list of delegates to some international...
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The internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tube-steaks
Scientists wirelessly transmit high-speed data through, um, pork loin[h/t Boing Boing]
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YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE
We expected the worst -- bad repercussions and tears before bedtime -- after an accident in the Riddled Research Laboratory, involving the Morphogenic Field Flux Intensifier and a breach of conceptual...
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By salamander, drake, and the power that was undine: Stem-sell edition
"Hmm," said absolutely no-one, "I wonder which researchers publish through BioAccent Journals -- noted for their unorthodox style of spamming for submissions, which stresses their lack of recognition...
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