Category Archives: Humor

Jane Austen’s ‘Fight Club’

Posted on 25 July 2010 by Becca

hat-tip to Digby

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BP PR

Posted on 5 July 2010 by Becca

BP’s new slogan: “Put a Turtle* in Your Tank!” (* = Turtle may be covered in oil and tar, on fire, and/or toxically poisoned into sterility. BP makes no claims, implied or otherwise, that oily flaming turtles will actually ‘clean … Continue reading →

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“The ducks in the bathroom are not mine”

Posted on 30 May 2009 by Becca

The latest viral thing: http://www.27bslash6.com/strata.html Not to worry, it’s work-safe, unless uncontrolled laughter can get you fired. All I can say is Helen turned out to be a good sport about it.

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Word.

Posted on 2 January 2009 by Becca

Hat-tip to Eri.  With thanks to Icanhascheezburger.com.

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Happy Festivus

Posted on 23 December 2008 by Becca

(See ref.)  Alas, no aluminum poles to be had here, so I guess we’ll have to make do with bamboo.

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Letterz frum the Front Line in the Monkee Warz

Posted on 18 October 2008 by Becca

The following odd ‘journal’ entry was found stuffed up behind an air conditioning unit, scrawled on a sheaf of mismatched papers and written in an ink of highly questionable origins.  Copied quasi-verbatim: …big-big feer time for we Monkee-Tribe.  Big broun … Continue reading →

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An antidote to the abuse of ‘language’

Posted on 20 January 2008 by Becca

There are times when I simply want to scream, when I hear terms like ‘liberty’ and ‘peace’ being so abused by those who would see most of us not really have them.  Or when they justify things that have been … Continue reading →

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This is just frickin’ creepy…

Posted on 17 January 2008 by Becca

I, too, did some weird things in college, but would’ve had to be stoned out of my mind to do something this crazy… Via Raw Story: Huckabee: ‘We used to fry squirrels in a popcorn popper’ Huckabee spoke to MSNBC’s … Continue reading →

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Bad, bad writing

Posted on 12 January 2008 by Becca

2007 Results Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2007 Gerald began — but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it … Continue reading →

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Playing with Fire

Posted on 5 January 2008 by Becca

OMG, this was hilarious.  It also took some serious huevos to pull off a stunt so massively brazen: The BEAST: America’s Best Fiend The event we were covering was a quick shot across the Kentucky state line, the grand unveiling … Continue reading →

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