Globalisation!
These mooching Chinese cockwombles would like my name; also they would like a photograph that they can use in their grift. Worryingly, they are adopting the wheedling verbal tics of the Hyderabad...
View ArticleOnan, what is best in life? To crush your enemies. See them driven before...
Imagine that various persons -- some anonymous, some identified -- have used fora such as PubPeer to criticise your alchemical announcements for consisting largely of half-arsed photoshoppery in lieu...
View ArticleFestive Fishmas wishes to everyone!
"Bad Santa III" took the franchise off in an unexpected new direction.
View ArticleTransition-Metal Alchemist: "Not to mention Camels" edition
An Indian team of nanotech researchers put a lot of effort into a particular scatter of points, so they have used this Dromedary Distribution ten times in six different publications. In each case it is...
View ArticleOnan, what is best in life? #2
To walk the Ruapani Circuit track. To drive to Morere Hot Springs in the evening when most people had left. To have the hot pool to ourselves, with a bottle of Armageddon IPA, and torrential rain...
View ArticleThis exists
[Not my foteau; stolen from Jon @Flickr]I can't find an Interwebs photograph of the shop sign in Putaruru that readsCHEESE TASTINGCOFFEEÂ so you'll have to take my word that it exists.
View ArticleThe touch of undying
Let me begin with a Public Service Announcement: boosting murine IQ never ends well (it must be a tradition, or an old charter or something). The mice revert to stupidity and die, or take over the...
View Article"Expired Curcumin Retraction" is my new band-name
We can blame Robert Louis Stevenson for the idea that ebullient concoctions only work if one of the ingredients is contaminated.My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of...
View ArticleThe wrong kind of bees
Inspired by Tony Fisher and his functioning Rubik Ice-Cube, here at Riddled Research Laboratory we are making good progress with our plan to create the first Rubik Cube constructed out of bee-hives....
View ArticlePostal carriers say aggressive turkeys stopping mail service
A parable for the Trump presidency:[elaborate joke goes here, about collecting the fledglings' feathers for pillow-stuffing purposes] 'It'll get you down sooner or later,' Keats mumbled.
View ArticleIf there's one thing worse than aggressive turkeys, it's giant pigeons
The nasty feckers will steal your car-keys if you leave the window down.
View ArticleI'm damaged, and I like it It made me what I am
When I vouchsafed to Another Kiwi that "We need a stalker", what I had in mind was someone to venture into the Forbidden Zone and bring back more incomprehensible artifacts of alien technology. Someone...
View ArticleWon't somebody please think of the children!
The Children's March for Humanity is the sort of name you chose to reassure those who attend an event that they are the only ones Thinking of the Children. Or indeed of Humanity.It appears to be a...
View ArticleWe regret the error
Apparently "Dramamine" does not mean "an underground excavation for the extraction of excitement". The author responsible for the error has been sacked is a bad person, who feels bad and needs your...
View ArticleFake News
The truth is that they entwine their tails at night in the hope of becoming permanently entangled, which will transform them into a fused, gestalt entity -- a creature of terrible powers and...
View ArticleACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED
At last my versatile accomplishments have been recognised! If only by a skeevy publisher!So what to call the book? Helpful friends have suggested "The Philosopher's Stone is buried in the Dung-Heap:...
View ArticleMore than just coincidence?! #2
This gear-shift control is a map of England and Scotland. Evidently Cornwall is Reverse. I could not possibly comment.But where is Wales? Is this a message from the future about Celtic independence?
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