June 1, 2011
[funny] Dr Johnson On Adam Curtis …
Adam CURTIS (n.) tapestry-weaving Sophist who feigns that placing Events betwixt each other does magically prove a CAUSE
June 1, 2011 [funny] Dr Johnson On Adam Curtis … Adam CURTIS (n.) tapestry-weaving Sophist who feigns that placing Events betwixt each other does magically prove a CAUSE May 12, 2011 [tv] The Most Stupid Quiz Answer Ever? …‘Andrew and Vanessa – the contestants in question – had been doing so well in the Channel 4 game show. But then came the fateful Bannister question. In 1954, did he go into space, run a sub-four minute mile or become the first man ever to put the toilet seat down? Andrew and Vanessa ummed. They ahhed. Then, out of nowhere, Andrew had a breakthrough. Eyes burning with pure knowledge, he shouted “I think I’ve seen ‘Bannister’ written on a toilet!” Vanessa was more cautious, wailing “Who KNOWS this?” before eventually agreeing on the toilet thing as well.’ May 9, 2011 [funny] The Super-injuncted Crossword Puzzle …’6 Across – Shagged his wife’s sister’s former best friend whilst still married to her.’ May 7, 2011 [blog] I Curate The Internet … brilliantly done image Tumblr. Do check out the archives. (Some NSFW content) April 28, 2011 [royals] Friday April 29, 2011: A time to clean the fridge …‘It is a moment in history when a nation united by not being at work and a lack of normal television will stand up, chests inflated with pride, and say ‘I might as well have a go at the fridge. Does nan want a cup of tea while I’m up?’ Remember it well, that you might share with future generations the fond memory of its cleaning-based magic.’ April 12, 2011 April 2, 2011 March 29, 2011 March 19, 2011 March 16, 2011 March 15, 2011 [funny] Unreliably Witnessed:‘A banker, a Daily Mail reader and a benefit claimant are sitting at a table sharing 12 biscuits…’ March 11, 2011 [movies] Behold: The Nicolas Cage Matrix …‘Cage more than anyone has two distinct types of movie: serious, po-faced, issue movies and balls-out, crack-piped, bug-eyed brainwrongs.’ [via A Smursh Of Pete] ![]() March 7, 2011 [art] (Fake) Gilbert and George Are On Twitter … Lucheon. Prolific as ever, we masturbated onto a stamp while soup simmered. Food: adequate. Stamp: no longer usable in any practical sense. March 1, 2011 [quotes] Found Quotes, 3 …The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine. — Abraham Lincoln February 14, 2011 February 2, 2011 [guardian] Their Questions Answered … a blog that attempts to answer the rhetorical questions posed on the letters page of the Guardian Weekend magazine every week …‘No rhetorical questions were posed in the Letters page of the Guardian Weekend magazine, Saturday 15 January 2011. As a result we are going to spend the next week reassessing our lives and purposes.’ January 27, 2011 January 20, 2011 [food] How An Englishman Cooks Breakfast [via iamcal] … There are many different ways to cook eggs but most of them are purely of interest to invalids, children and the feeble-minded. The correct or ‘proper English egg’ is fried with lightly browned edges in the fat left over from the bacon. At the last minute, oil is flicked over the top of the yolk to seal it. This dangerous procedure causes the yolk to form a perfect, golden, viscid capsule, the violation of which with a rough shard of toast, is the nearest that an Englishman will permit himself to unbridled sexual ecstasy. December 26, 2010 [tv] Christmas Night Fail From Yesterday TV – Nazi Collaborators All Nighter … a history TV channel’s idea of Christmas entertainment! December 19, 2010 [funny] Study: Women Always Answer Their Phones Unless They’re Having Great Sex With Someone Else …‘The study emphasized that while women who failed to answer the phone were almost unquestionably with someone else enjoying the most volcanic sensual escapade they’d ever had, there was also the possibility that they were busy gazing deeply into another man’s eyes, knowing and feeling a type of love they had never known or felt before.’ December 13, 2010 [comics] “YRUBB ORUTOO DA YREEMB UYON – – KRYPTONIU EWYRR!” … Mike Sterling on Kryptonian:‘I suppose, once I have a spare decade and a complete collection of Superman comics, I can catalog the different ways Kryptonian has been represented over the years. Then I can finally fulfill my dream of opening a Kryptonian language camp for underprivileged children, and we can compete with the Klingon language camp across the lake…but perhaps I’ve said too much.’ December 7, 2010 [comics] The Twitter Hulks … Kottke surveys the Hulks on Twitter …‘HULK WEIGH OVER 1 TONNE. HULK KISS ANYONE HULK WANTS TO. HULK WORRIES ABOUT EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT AT MARIE CLAIRE.’ (Cross-dressing Hulk) November 26, 2010 November 24, 2010 November 23, 2010 [comics] Scientists Confirm Existence of ‘Kirby Krackle’ …‘Scientists have made an incredible breakthrough in the study of antimatter that yielded the first ever creation and capture of antihydrogen, which looks almost exactly like the ubiquitous “Kirby Krackle” visual effect innovated by the legendary comics artist many decades ago.’ November 15, 2010 [funny] Forensic Homeopathologist Offers Police ‘Alternative’ Evidence, Suspects …‘[Yates] will admit, though, that forensic homeopathology has its limits and that some cases are beyond its reach. ‘In those cases, I would recommend aroma-inquiry with perhaps a course of Naturopathy to enhance the crime’s ability to solve itself.” November 5, 2010 [comics] Modern Men Don’t Know Enough About Comics, Complain Women …‘Hair-stylist Helen Archer said: “My last boyfriend was rich, sensitive and hung like a pack mule, yet completely out of his depth in Forbidden Planet.”‘ November 1, 2010 [funny] Go Look: A Small Tribute To The Mandlebrot October 22, 2010 October 20, 2010 [funny] First they came for the quangos … Diamond Geezer on the UK Government’s Spending Review …‘Then they came for something fundamental,
And I did not speak out because “we simply can’t afford it”.’ October 19, 2010 [comics] Super-Hero Hoarders: The 7 Biggest Pack-Rats In Comics …‘Some hoarders are marked not just by the objects they have stuffed away into their own personal Fortress of Hoarditudes, but also by the extreme lengths they’ll go to to acquire them, and nobody — nobody — goes quite as far as Superman himself. Dumpster diving is one thing, but actual diving to the bottom of the ocean so that you can retrieve the wreckage of the Titanic and rebuild it in your living room? Sure there’s nothing else you could be doing with your time there, Clark?’ October 10, 2010 [funny] Go Look: This Painting Is Not Available In Your Country [via Unreliably Witnessed] September 29, 2010 [comics] Go Look: Clark Kent’s honeymoon began on a down note. [comics] The Wisdom of Tharg The Mighty … “As an alien superbeing. I have little time for the primitive biological urge you lesser evolved beings call sex.” – Tharg the Mighty September 13, 2010 [tv] The Origin Of The Captain Pugwash / Seaman Stains / Master Bates Meme … originally published in the Sunday Correspondent in 1990 (scan from Phil Gyford’s Flickr] … ![]() September 7, 2010 [joke] How many SEO experts does it take to change a light bulb, lightbulb, light, bulb, lamp, lighting, switch, sex, xxx, hardcore? [twitter] September 1, 2010 [funny] Go Look: 10 Photos Capturing Moments of Spontaneous Badassery [Page 1 | Page 2] …‘He’s practically a goddamn action figure up there: He comes complete with Uzi (mid-cock), Italian wingtips and a mustache made out of revenge.’ [click for the photo] August 27, 2010 [funny] Hungover Owls …“Give me…give me like…five…five minutes. Jesus.” [via qwghlm] August 25, 2010 [tv] These are Their Stories … nicely done cartoons based on one line summaries of Law and Order episodes from a TV Guide … Lawyer is Secretly a Stripper / Goren Takes on a Chess Master / A Pedophile Uses the Internet. August 24, 2010 [comics] Go Look: nana nana nana nana BATJESUS! August 23, 2010 [comics] The Top 10 Most Awesome Moments of Luke Cage: Power Man …‘That is the greatest panel in the history of Luke Cage. It might be the greatest panel in the history of Dr. Doom, and I’d go so far as to say that there’s a good chance it’s the best panel in Marvel Comics history.’ [the panel] August 22, 2010 August 19, 2010 [funny] Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult …‘I did three things yesterday! Now I’m supposed to keep doing things? It’s like the things never end!’ (more…) August 18, 2010 [tumblr] Go Look: Crap At My Parents House …‘The goal of Crap At My Parents House is to pay homage to all of the weird crap that everyone’s parents have…’ August 17, 2010 [funny] Go Look: For Sale – Cobra MK III ’86 …‘Spent 525 credits on a fuel scoop…’ August 16, 2010 [funny] Go Look: How The Male Angler Fish Gets Completely Screwed …‘Oh God, what the shit is this?!!!’ August 10, 2010 [funny] Go Look: Rocket Propelled Chainsaw … for when you absolutely, positively need to kill every zombie in the room. |