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David Hume could out-consume
We learn, via Pharyngula and Crooked Timber and the passage of several weeks, that Steven Pinker is forging ahead with his project of making Richard Dawkins look less like a mouthy git in...
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No, halfwit Fairfax journalist,
Homœopathy is not "A therapy aimed at improving a person's physical, mental and emotional state through natural medicines." You could have looked it up. Instead you went to the website of NZ...
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Daily Mail editors must now decide whether to assign new element to the...
Synthesising new elements is Serious Business, for he who controls the Periodic Table controls the Jungian Unconscious [Lafferty, 1976]:This is why it took so long for the IUPAC/IUPAP Joint Working...
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Don't let me keep youfrom fucking the world over,but Seamus Heaney has died.Just some old poetguy with a funny accentwho wrote about stuffin peoples hearts and minds.Not serious things likegassing and...
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Grima Wormtongue quits Shire; cites barriers to investment as reason for...
Evidently James Dale Davison is an investment advisor and author of numerous volumes of economic and political predictions, described by his admirers as an excellent predictor of trends, as long as you...
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"...or it gets the hose again"
A 10-metre-tall stocking-clad giant with an equally oversized keyboard is composing a blog post from a pine-forested mountain-side, while ordering his normal-sized companion to shift the furniture....
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Kids today
"I am not entirely confident," I said, "about having only one man between us and the caprine hordes. What if that man is injured, or changes career? Think about it, if the only thing that anyone says...
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Has anyone written an Metamorphosis / "archy and mehitabel" mash-up yet?
Asking for a friend.In other news, a recent thread saw the following exchange:ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...NO FIGHTING IN THE POETRY ROOM, PEOPLE!~August 31, 2013 at 2:12 PMAnother Kiwi said...Mr....
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He locks the door behind the door behind the door
Georgette Magritte wondered, not for the first time, why René couldn't just come and go through the front door like everybody else.
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Shane Jones, candidate for Leader of the Opposition, is a class act
You can tell by the elegant circumlocutions he uses to ascribe the behaviour of female politicians to PMT.Jones has decided that he has little chance of getting to lead the Labour Party on the basis of...
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" I see" vouchsafed Smut Clyde, sitting down at the Riddled tearoom Louis XIVth table " that the America' Cup Yachts are racing again"I put the biscuit tin back on the table after shaking it...
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The Riddled Ktistec Machine
When you run it backwards, it sucks up ticker-tape like spaghetti and turns it into cards. This is useful when Mrs Cat has one of her Manchurian Candidate moments and shreds the Queen of Diamond. Why...
View Article"Dressed in a little Brie for Thor at tea"
The story accompanying this headline must remain untold until bspenser expands this comment into a new thread, on the subject of spreadable condiments as a substitute for clothing.
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Not so Тихий Дон now, eh Tovarisch Sholokhov?
Ever since the time when Baalam's Ass first propounded the Halting Problem, horses and philosophy have been entwined. This resulted in a Keats-&-Chapman joke, which as you have not heard it, I will...
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Rose cross and crosser thereSymbols of the swan
There are some blogs lacking in work ethic where the staff seize every excuse to skive off work, and given a bad weather forecast like a Severe Fog Warning [may include pecky-bastard Swans and...
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Evolution of Unuseful Things
1. Over-sized nib pens.2. Vaulting horse.Notice progressive loss of spines as the species is domesticated and loses the need for defenses from its predators. Notice also how the circular crushing...
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Royal watchers are abuzz (yes, actually buzzing) with the news that a kiwi tourist and his differently socialised family have invited themselves to the Queen's house and have eaten all the bread in the...
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As God is my witness, I thought diatoms could fly
Pinning through the thorax: Onlyacceptable for vampire hunters "I am not besotted with the prospect of hosting the Conan-Doyle-short-story-Charades Competition again this year," said Evangeline van...
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Nightmares are just one of the services we offer: Polychæte Biodiperversity...
This aberrant polychæte worm has evolved to look like a 16th-century woodcut. Also Evolution has given it the name 'Myzostoma', which just saying would be a good name for a Techno label.Chaetopterus...
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While my great silver slugs are eager to feed
It's here! It's new! It's the very last word in cosmetic dermatology and a breakthrough in applied invertebrate biology, and it's available only from Riddled!When you enter our discreet anonymous...
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