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These dumbarse bumblefucks need a lesson on how to operate their spam software properly. They are DOIN IT RONG. "Ourrobuston-line publicity" does not involve posters confined to a single metro line in...
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Thanks 70s Dinner Party!
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OK, which of you clowns signed me up to receive this grifter's bulletins?
View ArticleThe metastases of Quackery, and vice versa
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there includes Leonid's frame-story.A recent post by our host mentioned the impressive research...
View ArticleVillagers call her: quicklime girl Behind her back: quicklime girl Behind the...
This is not the first time we remark on the delightful personalities and lofty ethics of the people involved, by way of explining why the GcMAF Alt-Med industry features so frequently at Riddled....
View Article"The company's anatomically-correct cow and pig mannequins are now being...
New Zealand continues to lead the world in livestock sex-doll technology! Huzzah!Hamilton start-up Holsim finds crack in the market with rubber rumpsA Hamilton start-up is finding a ready market for...
View ArticleDepuis Pâques je porte dans ma poche l'annonce que mon télescope microscope...
Alternative title #1: Maximilliona; ou L'exercice illégal de l'astronomie la nanotechnologieAlternative title #2: The Workshop of the MicroscopesThe Affair of the Electron Microscope is elaborate and...
View ArticleThat's the way you do it! [Riddled Book Club edition]
Isn't it always the same? You wait and wait for a detection / police-procedural novel deeply steeped in love for London, with the hunchbacked puppet Punch as the chief suspect -- in his role as Lord of...
View ArticleYou can't spell 'Apotheosis' without 'pot'
Here at the Riddled Institute of Forensic Literature and Postmodern Milking-shed Design, we have been looking at the vexed issue of the Uncanny and the Unheimlichin household appurtenances and...
View ArticleA mirror is a negative space With a frame and a place for your face #2
Evopsych jackass George Gallup Jnr. is too good to be true. I am not saying that he is really a literary creation (written as a caricatured interlocutor in a Socratic dialog) who escaped into the real...
View ArticleArbitrary and capricious punishment
It would certainly be unacceptable if Constable Pedersen had wasted public money by using more Taser shots than necessary.
View ArticleWho would win?
Jon Snow, teamed up with telepathic Direwolves...Or Eric Stark, teamed up with telepathic Northhounds?Give G. R. R. Martin credit, he steals from the best.
View ArticleI want my Jurassic-Park / Terminator cross-over movie and I want it NOW.
Life-size animatronic T-Rex bursts into flames at dinosaur theme parkPeople will recognise this as a blatant rip-off of the burning animatronic giraffes that are a prime attraction at the Riddled...
View ArticleThere is Fusion Cuisine. Then there is...
Peanut Butter & Jelly in a burger... wrong on more levels than Peach Trees Block.And what fresh abomination is this? From what inchoate nightmare has it sprung, from what realm of irreality of...
View ArticleI would pay many quatloos for a graphic novel in which Gregor Samsa, the...
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View ArticleCompare and contrast
This Helmet Family Tree was most recently sighted at History Lovers Club, and before that at Daily Infographics. Morgan used it in a 1925 textbook on "Evolution and Genetics" (primarily as a way of...
View ArticleRun around in the radiation Run around in the acid rain
Harken to Richard MacManus, who has convinced the DimPost (our newspaper of note) that he is Internationally Recognised as a Commentator. I cannot be arsed checking in the archives to see how often...
View ArticleCaption competition
I have no idea why these people are wearing dreamcatcher masks. Maybe it is a new kind of cosplay.
View ArticleWhen you've begun to think like a gun The rest of the year has already gone
The sight of a rifle hanging on a wall in Act 1 makes it more likely that the playwright will use it in Act 3.This is an example of the Weapon Priming Effect, where exposure to a weapon-related...
View ArticleCrank Magnetism
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site. The version there is improved by Leonid's frame-story.Remember the time when sunspots and solar winds were coupled to Earth's rotation,...
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