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Liverpuddle Scene: Stage set-up in progress
Just saying, roadies for a Spın̈al Tap Tribute Band have an easy job.
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Space Dentist, sign of the time Space Dentist, so outta line
"When the recruiting call goes out for the first crewed mission to Mars, and the practical necessity finally dawns on NASA for someone aboard the probe who can tend to the zero-gravity dental needs of...
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Well I never did nothin' But I was framed
Here at the Riddled Designer Drencrom Distillery we adhere slavishly to the principle of "Sticking to the point" and "Avoiding irrelevant digressions" and "Not enticing one's mind from another subject...
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Image-enhancement software: Just say NO
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.Source:...
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More than just coincidence
Paul Nash, "Wire" (1918).I don't know if I can be arsed remaking the Upas GIF to include it.
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What's a romantic way of celebrating a 25th anniversary?Preferably not involving spending moneys.
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Identity Parade
Are you a false cover persona, split away from 'your' other personality (as a genetic soldier or programmed assassin) through MKULTRA / MONARCH techniques of drugs and hypnosis and trauma and memory...
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CSI New Zealand
"The birds were definitely killed by blunt force trauma, and Massey University is now performing post-mortems on them to ascertain exactly whether or not they were bludgeoned."To be scrupulously fair...
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"Jewelry, sand-spiders and a surprise parcel full of Monkey"."I'll take...
The floristry industry must be terrified by the threat of competition from this innovative alternative romantic gift:"Your intention was to capture one and bring it home to your girlfriend,"the judge...
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Behind the Scenes at the British Neues Museum
The Moustache Collection.They can call it a collection of "Anthropomorphic Pendants" if they like, but these are the only traces that remain of some Bronze-Age society of Hercule Poirot cosplayers.
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Tales from Micrographic Oceans
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and explanation of the back-story.Lancelets fossilised in...
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Dear OMICS cockwombles, your spambot is malfunctioning
We get mail! This time, signed "Best Regards" by spambot "Ashley Tay".Now Ashley Tay (Conference Manager) has her own LinkedIn page! She reports an education at "University of Nevada, Las Vegas -...
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"Sausage Cartel" is the name of my Throbbing Gristle tribute band
What the news item doesn't explain is how the cartel drove up prices by engineering artificial scarcities. They would promise a shipment of sausages, then delay delivery with a series of excuses.Always...
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Strain out a gnat and swallow a camel poop
Here at the Riddled Institute of Narrativium Mining and Experimental Epistemology, we harbour a professional interest in "Narrative Verisimilitudening". Which is to say, the process by which the sheer...
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The real victim
This guy.The man who was filmed breaking an expensive sculpture on Wellington's waterfront yesterday has opened up about his actions, saying he was "bored" and "there wasn't a sign that says don't...
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The treachery of images
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and explanation of the back-story.Three years ago,...
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