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Fun with plagiarism: Floodlands edition
Was N. Molesworth (1953) inspired by Mervyn Peake (1950)?It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
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Russian technological advances continue to lead and astonish the world
Before a packed audience, the Great Helmsman demonstrated the latest motorised rotatory nipple buffers.
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Till Human Voices Wake Us (we used to be Apex Predators until the apices went...
Our immediate response to the letter from Trahison & Clerisy (Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths) was unfavourable. Trahison & Clerisy are our usual legal advisors at the Mad Scientist...
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What fools these mortals be (the Blood is the Life)
They bled an old dog dry yet the exchange rillsOf young dog blood give but a month’s desires;The waste remains. the waste remains and kills.I hope I am not alone in hearing that poem recited in the...
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Allegro non Troposphere
"Bring-your-telescope-to-work-Day" sounds all very well in principle, but inevitably it goes pear-shaped, and ends up with Another Kiwi scraping parasitic flatworms off the inside of the lens. The...
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The noselessness of man
Not many people know that Tycho Brahe had a range of prosthetic noses, including an ornate Cloisonné replacement with built-in salt-and-pepper shakers that he used at formal dinners, and another which...
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Cut and paste
Here at Riddled Research Laboratory and Paspalum Infestation Help-Line we are not deterred by the jeers of the ignorant masses, nor by pettifogging concerns about "ethics", and we press on with our...
View ArticleThe Proverbial Creek
One is, of course, fully aware of the great advantages and boosts to the New Zild economy that have been provided by the industry formerly known as farming. For many years we rode on the butter boxlid...
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Lazy Mallory Ortberg blogging
Let's stick the Babby Jesus onna spike!Why would we want to do a sick sick thing like that? It'll be good training for his later career.Really?Not really. But it would stop him wriggling.You're a sick...
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Progress!
Madrid now has some decent brewpubs. I came all the way to drink Estonian porter[top right].
View ArticleA wodge of it
"What is going on in the great water problem in NZ, the Watergate" I hopefully do not hear you ask. Well, me buckos, it can be summarised as bugger all.Various people have gone on various media and...
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Nature abhors a vacuum, especially if it is an over-priced POS from Dyson
I have no idea why the lady is vacuuming the footpath, though it perhaps it is a scene from an episode of Der Tatortreiniger, which would explain a lot. Nor do I know why the homeless dude is...
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How many other blogs pander to the bronies with Bach's "Trotatta & Fugue" and...
None more. None more other blogs.
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From the dust I rose on high Thunder cloud in a two-lane sky
Season follows season, as is their tiresome but time-honoured custom, and soon with the coming of Spring the garden bar at the Old Entomologist will be fit for human habitation again. At the moment it...
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What's going though your mind right now?
In the early days of lobotomies, the absence of x-rays and stereotactic devices made it difficult for the neurosurgeon to plan the lesion with any precision. Not to mention the necessity of distracting...
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When a new city of Clyde is created in my honour...
...I will insist that the street plan is based on the craquelure of Peder Balke paintings. Conceivably there are secret subliminal messages there in Runic alphabet, perceptible only to Norwegian...
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News from Nowhere Oslo
The alien slave raids grow more brazen every day.No-one is safe from being sucked up in their mass tractor-beam abductions.
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Dentistry is theft
Perhaps these high- rotation scammy spam-heads at World Continuing Education Alliance have confused me with Herr Doktor Hans Peter Bimler -- celebrated creator of "Bimler Cephalometric Analysis", and...
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Lost Lake
I found it! Is there a reward?I guess the authorities are not too worried about its precise location because they have built a barrier further up the river, so they know it can't wander very far.
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