Scrabble: Not just a Board-game!
It's like an old "Two Ronnies" joke that got separated from its punchline.I guess it's no worse than having garden gnomes.
View ArticleGoofle Translate is fat-shaming Estonian birds
For shame:Fatty fatThe fat hog (Parus major) is a type of bird species of the Tigers family. He is one of the most common and famous birds in Estonia, and one of the most extensively studied birds in...
View ArticleHeads and hearts
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, under the title 'Lost Hearts' because M.R. James. That version is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story. Criminally...
View ArticleStockpiles of Stupid were running low again so we crowdsourced funds to allow...
The Riddled Life-Raft Founderation should not be confused or indeed bumfuzzled with the Lifeboat Foundation. True, both exist to plan and prepare for Existential Threats to Human Survival. The latter,...
View ArticleTell me, sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here? What am I doing in...
Life continues to imitate Agatha Christie plot-lines:A Christchurch medical researcher has died in a suspected suicide as police investigated claims she poisoned her partner last year and also whether...
View ArticleMrs Spat has no idea where the dead rat came from
"I never saw it before in my life."Several days later:"Where is my dead rat? Someone has moved my rat! I know where I left it and it is not there!"
View ArticleAttack of the Clone Tool (a Prequel)
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story.Two researchers at the...
View ArticleThere are doors
#42:I knocked at the door but no-one answeredI am open to the possibility that it escaped from one of Colin Thompson's books.
View ArticleWhat in the world is Smut Clyde eating now?
Deer Mushroom, Pluteus cervinus. The foraging websites cannot generate enthusiasm about its culinary qualities, talking of a 'radishy' flavour, which goes away if fried and leaves the 'earthy' flavour...
View ArticleI've the whitish blue eye of my Gallic ancestors, the narrow skull, and the...
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, frame-story, and additional background about Neandertal mini-brains.Previous...
View ArticleCanadian mounted, baby, a police force that works
Perhaps it was the møøse-related posts that drew the spike of Canadian traffic.
View ArticlePost-Publication Expression of Concern
It appears that the Western Island is so benighted that academics there are unfamiliar with "Killed By Death":#1 Peer 1Â commented 2 years agoDoes this only work with with the one song from AC/DC or can...
View ArticleHeartsnatchers
This Coda was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, as part of an Update or continuation of an earlier post on hearts and shenanigans. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and...
View ArticleThe reason why the five factors are no more than five is a pretty...
Here at the Riddled Blogging and Combine-Harvester Racing Club we pay little heed to requests from the readership or suggestions of targets for satire, for readers are known to be fickle and feckless...
View ArticleCome and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being...
A previous post touched fleetingly on that episode of popular nescience in the 1990s when a small band of disinterested, evidence-driven, 100%-agenda-free maverick thinkers had the temerity to...
View ArticleThe map is not the territory
Can't post, due to travel & work & beer. This is what happens when conceptual artists are invited to redesign street-maps.
View ArticleA king of shreds and patches
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and explanation of the back-story.With all...
View ArticleThe Touch of Undying #2
Stockpiles of Stupid were running low again so we dispatched teams of ninja ethnologists to conduct fieldwork among distant primitive tribes in the Bumblefuck Archipelago and record their creation...
View ArticleAfter graduating with this degree, you are entitled to sign MOFHL after your...
Alternative title: "Man Reading Aloud to a Turkey".
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