The three warning signs of merry minstrelsy
1. Merry din.2. The bride, red as a rose.3. The loud bassoon.Contact the authorities immediately if two or more of these signs are evident. Merry minstrelsy is dangerous and should under no...
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Concept for a horror movie: A series of grisly murders, all inspired by "The...
Having read how cupids had been trained to re-enact horror movie roles,* Keats was convinced that he and Chapman could follow in the footsteps of Riddled Enterprises and the Grand Petit-Guignol...
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I in the sky
With the aid of heroic quantities of TAQ polymerase and the thrashing of Alan Parson Project albums for inspiration, Riddled Enterprises now proudly unveils the latest in drone surveillance technology,...
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Oh dear Gilbert has trodden on his violin. He has put his foot through the...
Sometimes Boing Boing becomes the all-Talking Heads channel, not that there's anything wrong with that."My favourite version of Psycho Killer," Another Kiwi vouchsafed, "is the instrumental cut they...
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Cloude of Unknowyng
I told everyone that it was a bad idea to upgrade the Talking Brazen Head Automagic Post Generator to Windows 8 but did anyone pay attention to Uncle Smut? DID THEY BOGROLL. It was all "Calm down and...
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Who wants to see my big mushroom?
Boletus edulis, sprouting up under the pine trees on the golf course, five minutes walk away.I tried to pose Mrs Spat sitting beside them to make them look smaller, but she went away over the fence to...
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Fanservice
HA HA fooled you. It is not really a fan, actually the Manopticon Surveillance Drone. 90% more aerodynamic than Ceiling Cat!!
View ArticleHey! Hey! White people's feelings are being hurt over here!
Remember the good old days, my friends when New Zilders could walk around secure in the knowledge that brown people were funny, played the guitar and were good at rugby? Most importantly, they knew...
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The great sun gesture
For centuries the best minds of each decade have wrestled with the age-old question, "What are we to do to dispose of all those unvaporised diamonds?" But at last thanks to SCIENCE an answer is at...
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Word Verification -- How it works
You are in a well-lit room of indeterminate size, surrounded by various objects -- animals, statues and body parts -- drifting in mid-air as if suspended on threads in a mobile.Take pigeonYou have a...
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A Charter or something.
Minutes of the Riddled and Old Entomologist Charter Study Group.Mr. Greenish Hugh opened the meeting and welcomed everyone to the meeting, even Throgmorton Portcullis. Mr Portcullis replied that it was...
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What Dream Machine?
Here at Riddled Research Laboratory we are very sorry to learn that rival scientists in the field of vat-grown brain technology have been receiving threats from hitherto-unknown groups of neural-rights...
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Have fun with your new head
How many other companies (a) offer you a choice between a lion and a dragon head upgrade, when the old head cannot run the latest software; and (b) have a technician who arrives on a paddle-driven...
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Point of Ordure
Thursday night in the busy Riddled schedule is always taken up with the Acoela and Xenoturbellida Basal Bilateria Affiliations and Beer Froth Sculpture Working Group. This week HonSec Pro-Tem Ad-Hoc...
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Mrs Cat at Her Ease and misshapen Fish
After a hard day lying under the table in the sun, Mrs Cat felt that she should move to her natural habitat, the footstool and also expose the underparts to the cleansing rays. Note the one fangedness...
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J'Accuzi!
Report of the Riddled Add-Hock Fountain Replacement Subcommittee.1. Our remit was to examine options for replacing the much-loved Emo Cats Fountain in front of Riddled Manor (damaged last month by...
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"I’m knitting it into a pair of socks. Nothing fits better nor wears longer...
...Except Metal Baby Shoes! Guaranteed not to wear out! ------------------------------------------See, that was our mistake. We should have called ourselves 'engineers' and no-one would have blinked an...
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Life imitates a "Yes Minister" script
Dunne? Dunne who? Peter Dunne?Oh, that Peter Dunne, a long-standingperson of interest to the Riddled Think-tank for being a politician of principle. At least twice as many principles as any other...
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What in the world is Smut Clyde eating now?
I guess I will find out sooner or later.Fortunately there was enough for everyone.Space-time Eddie keeps going on about "side-effects" and "birds sprouting from our heads" but he has clearly well over...
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Memory Palace news
1. Riddled regrets the error in an earlier version of this post. We now accept that Jack Palance never appeared in the titular role of a big-budget Hollywood adaptation of Funes the Memorious with...
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