Newspapers: Working hard to inspire M. Bouffant-like levels of misanthropy
Important New Zealanders share their nutritional knowledge! Ms. Elder-Holmes is a celebrity among NZers Auckland socialites and media people for two (2) accomplishments in the course of her life:1....
View ArticleWho was that masked man anonymous cheap-joke-making jerk?
Old Rockin' Dave June 14, 2013 I am a lifelong opponent of appeals to “the slippery slope”, but there is one exception and that is the taking of human life. Take one, no consequences, and the taking...
View ArticleThe Harry Worth Synchronised Swimming Team
Wrong on more levels than the M. C. Escher Memorial High-Rise Parking Building.
View ArticleAnd there was worn no cloth but leatherMade supple by years of stinging...
Pope blesses hundreds of Harley-DavidsonsPope Francis is fully cogniscent of the Atomic theory (the littl shynin man, the Addom he runs in the wud), and the way that the agitated Adams -- the tiny...
View ArticleSurf-Lifesaver Pigeons
Great in concept; needs work in practice. Possibly more than one pigeon is necessary.
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Stroke of the pen: Not just thetraditional Mont Blanc Meisterstück 149Once again an international cabal of faceless unelected unaccountable bureaucrats has wrought havoc upon traditional mores and...
View ArticleWash away boy, shelley's shoes: Arthur Rimbaud's short-lived career in...
"A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies Which buzz around cruel smells,Gulfs of shadow..."Well Artie, I can see that you're in the middle of a fine frenzy, with poet's eye rolling and all that, but...
View ArticleWorld Cup of Short Form of Cricket Roundup with Bayern Munich Goalkeeper,...
MN: Guten abend, one and all. Well what a shallapaloozer weekend of sport is has been! Here to talk about the World Cup of cricket is Another Kiwi.AK: Hola ManolitoMN: Manuel, I am German, what is...
View ArticleNo-one at the Old Entomologist was surprised...
Uraba lugens... by the information that some caterpillars like to save the old heads from their molted skins, and wear them stacked up in a hommage to Magritte.Harrisimemna trisignataAfter all, they...
View ArticleDystopiary: Died in the Wool edition
We are apprised (via LGM) of the existence of Puya chilensis, a variety of feral pineapple. Opinions are divided as to whether the sharp spiny leaves of P. chilensis are truly designed to "snare and...
View ArticleVermeer vermerrier
It is always irritating when the settings on one's grey metal Tleilaxu eyes drift out of alignment. To make dark-cloud-ade of this particular sow's-ear there are two silk linings...(1) The boundness...
View ArticleNever mind the Pollocks
Some theatrical groups are shameless, the lengths they will go to promote their productions. Here at the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society it had never occurred to us to commission a limited edition of...
View ArticleThis happens; and we can't have nice things; but it is too early to infer...
Preliminary results from the Riddled Research Institute are promising: science journalists beaten with red-tipped rods are significantly less annoyingly stupid than a control group who were not beaten....
View ArticleOff travelling in a couple of days
Who will miss me most? Mrs Spat?But I will be away for weeks and weeks! Detritus Doodleberry Sludgemuffin, you will miss me, right?There remains the Doktorling Sonja... if she does not miss me, at...
View ArticleStill packing
In the meantime, here's a man firing up a bassoon. (thx peacay)Updated with BONUSelephant head-butting a vertical column of letters. The sight of blackletter calligraphy drives it into an...
View ArticleBlogger now insists that we type something into this "title" field but HEY...
Once upon a chronology -- whole eons ago, vast dizzying gulfs of time before last Thursday -- there was a single Amon Düül, and a single Life Extension movement, and I used to wind them up. The Life...
View ArticleWe are all John Derbyshire now
Just-So stories have featured in the news lately, as if in an attempt to provoke blogging endeavours about them (if we are too busy with drinking work commitments, readers should feel at liberty to...
View ArticleScenes from the Beckmann marriage
Quappi never knew what Max was going to bring home from a garage sale next.
View ArticleAK- Twitterati
By now some of you will be aware of my poop and pee jokes on the twitter. If not, YOU DO NOW!! I know, tingles up the leg, right?Well this week I engaged with one of the greatest, if not the greatest...
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