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Artist's impression of Sacha Stone"What fresh hilarity is ensuing from Sacha Stone (failed rock star, impresario of the ITNJ troupe of jurisprudential cosplayers, aspirant New Age / Libertarian guru...
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The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story.These curious images first appeared in...
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These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons
Life here in the Shire is insular and parochial but the isolation is balanced by advantages, such as being too small a market to attract the great media empires from across the border through Breeland....
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"I'd like to ask your opinion about a problem in Hamlet. You see, if I cast a...
Dog auditions for a role in an all-dog production of "Endgame".[H/t Boing-Boing]Casting scene from 9th Configuration
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Different Strokes for Different Folks
This collaboration with Tiger BB8 was previously cross-posted at Leonid Scheider's site. Re-posted here with Tiger's kind permission. I am retaining Leonid's frame-story for clarity and laziness.What...
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Agents of Fortune #2
Mention the Illuminati in just onetwothree little blogposts and the comment-spam invitations come flooding in to join the Illuminated Nigerian Brotherhood.WELCOME TO THE GREAT BROTHERHOOD. Do you want...
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Someone played way too much "Earthworm Jim" as a youngling
This whole made-up spirit-animal full-moon naming shite, dreamed up by journamalists to make the world stupider, is just getting silly now.
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So few comets, so many passengersT
The strategic stockpile of Stupid was running low again, and there was talk of drilling for Stupid within areas of national significance (i.e. the Garden Bar at the Old Entomologist), so we lowered...
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The award for "Currently most-popular Riddled post...
...goes to one from 7-½ years ago, about immoral porpoises.Slave all day over a hot keyboard and this is the sort of thanks you get.
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Naughty Beaver and the Nostradamus Prophecies
All this probably makes sense to Daryl Payan but I am not going to ask for explanations:BEST BAND-NAME EVAH [Thx Comrade_JP for pointing this out]I eagerly await their cover version of 'The Final...
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If you constructed an enormous building by stacking up layers of meat until...
...it would be a Tower Kebabel.
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Why do these corrupt academic journals keep forcing me to publish with them?
A recent retraction notice gave away little information, other than "editor's request". The ex-paper had been in disfavour - with critics arguing that the small samples of sheep robbed the results of...
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The subtleties a spectrograph would miss
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.The comments for that...
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More people were writing about Goofle Ngram Viewer in 1820 than in any subsequent year.
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We had to make our own fun when I were a lad
Putting pigs in pokes and cats in bags were very popular activities in the mid-1930s.The frequencies of pig-poking and cat-blanketing were inversely related in the first half of the 19th century; then...
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When Prophecy Fails (the falling motion)
"Let's re-enact 'When Prophecy Fails' as a real-time broadcast across social media, but instead of the deranged and disappointed cultists expecting UFOs, their saviour is a scrophulous brain-damaged...
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When Prophecy Fails #2 (Career of Evil edition)
Can you write a Faceborg entry by muzzle-loading a random pile of words into a blunderbuss and firing them at the screen? The possibility never occurred to us at the Riddled Research Laboratory but...
View ArticleMr. Worthing, they have a saying in Chicago: To lose one parent, may be...
The time is right for a "Goldfinger" / "Importance of Being Earnest" mash-up novel.
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