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Leif Ericson and Thorfinn Karlsefni are mortally offended
SourceAlso insulted: Sundry Spanish, Portuguese, Huguenots and French persons, and Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd. Not to mention various groups of Paleoamericans.As for the Roanoke colonists, their feelings...
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The restaurant's speciality is Steak Tartarus, which is very tasty and hangs...
This month at the Riddled Book Club we've been covering The Myth of Sisyphus to improve our understanding of Existential Threats. Discussion is thirsty work requiring any number of pints. One can only...
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I'm proud to walk a tightrope, now the gravity's so high *
Back in 1979, Shaw and Pittinger showed that a pattern of skull growth determined by the gravity gradient produced a cardioidal transform across the course of the life span, which explained how head...
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Mrs Cat impressed by Autumn.
Mrs. Cat is impressed with the Autumn sunshine but feels that this does not make up for the continuous disappointment she feels on seeing her food bowl. Which is some sort of toxic waste dump,...
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A discontinued fast food pie is going to be re-introduced to these fair lands. Georgie Pie. This is apparently the news I have been waiting for, which is a surprise to me but much of life is a surprise...
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The post accompanying this title was part of the show-trialmartyrdompublic burninghigh-tech lynching of Njáll Ferguson by the vituperative, error-demonising, self-appointed speech police of the...
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And the poison's in my heart and in my mind.
Alpine Sanatorium architectureIf there's one thing I learnt from reading The Magic Mountain for Riddled Book Club, it's that if you're a stolid engineer with a pedestrian but reliable career ahead of...
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A veterinarian of a thousand psychic wars
I tried to enlist in the Fighting Philosophers but was rejected for having the wrong qualification. Also my ears and eyebrows do not have the same profile.
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I do not know why Jason Richwine has opted for the facial grooming of a date...
Puppet with bad facial hair [right]The wonderful Intertuba invention has brought Jason Richwine, PhD, C.M.S-p to the world's attention, competing unfairly with our own home-grown shitweasels. Richwine...
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Seven years of labour on the instruments of time
That is how long the fell beings from the Unseelie Court honed their invasion plans.For seven years the nightmare vanguard worked to mask the loathly truth of their appearance -- all teratomous...
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"When I said 'Balls' it was in the way of an expostulation rather than a...
"Balls in horror movies are inherently scary," sez I, led astray on a tangent by a second pint of Gleamhound's Sobering Syrup. "If they are not bouncing downstairs of their own volition, they are in...
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Ancient belief #1: "Humans are friendly and helpful."
No wonder dragons went extinct. Serves them right for not upgrading their beliefs to the latest release Belief 6.2.Sentimentality in dragons is correlated with dentistry skills but not with long-term...
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Did I fool you? I didn't mean to fool you
May the 19th in the rightside up section of the world today. We know WHOSE birthday that is don't we?? There will be no chocolate fish awarded for this competition since that would detract from the...
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One.Billion.Dollars.
That is how much the lawyer-shaped entity acting for OMICS Publishing Group is demanding from mild-mannered librarian Jeffrey Beall, for describing that company's business practices in such a manner as...
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Happy-go-lucky New Zilders usually manage to blunder through their lives without killing anybody and on the whole, aside from buggering up the environment, not doing too much damage. Occasionally, of...
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IOKIYC.R.
"The Commentariat are demanding the cutting-room out-takes from the Christine Rankin post," observed Chief Editor tigris, resplendent in the Chief Editorial Hat which is often mistaken for a salted...
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Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it
Tuba self-immolating to protestBelgian atrocities in the CongoAccording to tradition (or an old charter or something) the suicide method of choice for protesting against a colonial war or a foreign...
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Radix malorum est cupids
The Riddled Tabletop Cherubim Theatre goes from strength to strength. Our earlier cupid-only staging of Motel Hell drew sell-out crowds of the usual no-hopers at the Old Entomologist -- despite the...
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