Spectres of the Spectrum
Huzzah! Here is some sciency-sounding radiation-related batshit-craziness magical thinking that is not from Professor Michael Persinger! We should hate to become dependent upon a single supplier.Dr...
View ArticleBohemian Rhapsody, part III
In this installment our hero encounters the horrors of English cuisine, and seeks employment in the service sector. Soon to be a block-buster production from the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society!If Jan...
View ArticleClothing-optional day at the Old Entomologist
In retrospect, possibly not as good an idea as it seemed at the time.I blame the fish. They were drugged or something.
View ArticleA drug by the name of "World Without End" #2 -- Sympathy for Debility
Peter Duesberg had an intriguing though not widely-accepted theory [Below, right]. It involved everyone else being wrong, a recurring theme in Duesberg's oeuvre. More specifically: all the money and...
View ArticleExcitement at fever-pitch in Oamaru #1
As God is my witness, I was unaware that grouse could fly.
View ArticleExcitement at fever-pitch in Oamaru #2
Where was the Only Man whom Goats Respect, when we needed him? It must have been his day off.The level of Vitamin C within the stressed goat's liver was not recorded.Below: Constable Conrad prepares...
View ArticleMy love is like a red red nose (#2)
Another Kiwi and I were enjoying a pint of Gleamhound's Bloodpressure Plummet [may contain plums] at the Old Entomologist when we were appraised of the new research from Pazda et al. (2016) and...
View ArticleWhen I become world dictator (#273)...
...The BBC will broadcast a science fiction series about the adventures of an immortal alien who believes that he is dead, or a fictional character, or both, as he recruits companions who share his...
View ArticleZen cones
A reader is inspired to reminiscense:I was hired by the local government to cut costs on emergency equipment by standing by the side of the road and warning drivers about upcoming roadwork.Roadcone...
View ArticleWhat keeps bringing me back to the GcMAF market is the high calibre of...
Woof Woof!What's that, Widdlebum? There's been an accident with the Canterel 8-Tesla Tooth Magnet?Woof Woof!Another Kiwi and Swearing Bob are testing the Advanced Alcohol Imbibement prototype in breach...
View ArticleDeep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?
Any number of months have passed since Another Kiwi informed the eager Riddled readership about the exciting and lottery-based nature of drinking the tapwater in Havelock North. Now you are probably...
View ArticleIt's springtime now and cares subside And the planting's almost done
There were random gratuitous acts of wrapping, and outbreaks of bedecking and festoonage at the Old Entomologist, and the moon was blotted out at night by the flights of reindeer and sleighs on...
View ArticleLike a Treen in a disabled spaceship
PhysalisWhatever happened to lyric poetry? Where are the poets of yesteryear? Often are these questions asked at the Old Entomologist, followed shortly by questions like "Why are you such loonies?" and...
View ArticleAnd the Quicklime girl still plies her trade Reduction of the many from the one
It has not gone unnoticed how war-crime forensic archaeologists show little enthusiasm for the rest of the human remains but focus their attention on the state of preservation of the victims'brains:...
View ArticleIn a G-load disaster from the rate of climb Sometimes I'd faint and be lost...
To my mind the belly-down piloting posture was infinitely more practical, especially for pilots with a tail.
View ArticleIn vitro in vino
From the Department of Unexpected Results: This study (N = 124) tested the main and interactive effects of alcohol consumption, egalitarianism and right wing authoritarianism (RWA) in relation to...
View ArticleTo wander unchecked through a garden of bright images [1000 Things to...
I am disappointed in you, Sherlock fans. You are being wrong on the Internet. Across a plethora of misinformed websites, you insist that the "Mayfly man" chatroom interviews in "The Sign of Three"...
View ArticleMerry Boxing-day-sales Day to all both our readers
We wish you the best of luck in returning those "Shared Experience VR Goggles" and exchanging them for something you really want.
View ArticleAngiosperm
You never know what you are going to pick up with the Riddled Dream Machine when you focus it on the location of other Riddled staff members, taking advantage of their recumbent position under the...
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