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Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun
"What is the status of the Great Culling of Quacks narrative?" asked the usual chorus of voices in my head. "For over a week has passed since the last report; surely more drama has ensued since then....
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I'm proud to walk a tightrope, now the gravity's so high
W. H. Auden was a weird dude: But the people in charge of promoting the Gravity weighted hug-blanket, do they promise to unleash your poetic potential? DO THEY BOGROLL. The advertising is all about...
View ArticleAustralians continue to live down to our expectations
This appears to be an Australian re-make of 'Ruthless People", but with unrequited explosions: About 1am on February 1, 2015, Yarnton woke in the passenger seat and heard a "hissing sound" coming from...
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The bald spot is Nature's way of allowing more near-IR photons to penetrate...
Combine-Harvester RacingRemember Michael Carroll? Of course you do. Here at the Riddled Research Laboratory and Combine-Harvester Racing Club, we are forever grateful for his many contributions to...
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You went full Rotwang, man. Never go full Rotwang
"Nanoblade"?! Wait, what, this sounds like a weapon that a post-humanist Ninja character might wield in a really bad Manga.You look lost. Perhaps I should go back to the...
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Fear and Trembling in Linguistics
It is a source of lasting regret that Eek and Help never got around to publishing with Aymaus as the third author.
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Two chairs, one cat
Heisenberg's Cat. As she dozes off and reduces the uncertainty in her velocity, the uncertainty in her position increases, requiring more furniture for comfort.
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Pro-tip: Highly-effective politicians only write dirty limericks
Here at Riddled we are aware of all Terms-of-venery traditions and we cannot condone the use of "bevy" as a collective term for bad poetry. "Bevy" can apply to quail, roe-deer or pulchritudinous...
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Bill the Cat meets a Swedish AirBnB host: Awkward conversations
Oh well oh oh oh.Uh oh oh oh oh ohOh, oh, oh, oh well.Oh well, oh well, oh well.I'm sorry, you're welcome, you're welcome.I'm afraid you're alright, you're welcome.You are welcome, you are welcome.I'm...
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Full of future thoughts and thrills, his senses slip away. He's a European...
Yastreblyansky in comments suggests harnessing the awesome power of Goofle Translate to write Eurovision Song Context lyrics. Brilliant! I am on the task!The Commission of the European Communities, the...
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A one-A.M. tweet from el JefeWent on about bad press #covfefe.To "What were you thinking?!"He explained he was drinkingA blend of of cough mixture and Hefe.
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Our sympathies lie with Emperor Commodus Caestigula
All he ever wanted was an Imperial palanquin:All he got was a golf-cart.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Whiny-arsed Grifter
Riddled staff caught in act of fly-tipping "Bundle of Sticks" sculptureHere is a novel judicio-aesthetic doctrine: If city authorities tolerate the presence of an unlawfully-dumped artwork in a public...
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Spoiled for choice
Three kinds of gourmet black pudding: Walnut & Raisin, Paua, or pure hemoglobin.
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"Here's a rubber glove, full of water, hanging from a tree branch" is the new...
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View ArticleWuzi, wugé, wugové? Analogy, frequency and uncertainty in a Czech wug study
This conference presentation is RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.Later at the same conference:Peanut Butter is the Miley Cyrus of spreadable edibles: Creatively figurative X is Y of Z constructions in a...
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Our chief weapons are decisiveness... decisiveness and responsibility... and...
The non-goodness of a Bad Decision can be measured by the speed of the Deciderer's search for someone else to blame. There are limits, however, and I don't know if Theresa May's Brexit supporters will...
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Just coincidence? I THINK NOT (#2)
Left:Direct-to-consumer fat-tyre bike, with carbon frame, named after 'Dopamine';Right: Direct-to-consumer bicyclic molecule, with carbon frame, named 'Ketamine'.Here is another view of the Ketamine,...
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