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Counterintuitive Fairy Tales: Doug's Disaster

Doug was freaked out.

Global warming was going to melt his face (right after it killed all the polar bears and drowned the Maldives). It was a maxim that terrorists or free-roaming gun-nuts boarded his bus and either blew it up, or shot him with a semi-automatic. And if those disasters didn't strike, it was only a matter of time before he was felled by SWINE FLU!!

He could read it right there in the headlines. It was on the radio. The TV. It was inevitable. Doug was going to catch SWINE...

A short history of YouTube

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You can see it here, if the embedded player face-plants like the ninja.

This is an ad for a Swedish ISP, and they are waaaaaaaay cooler than Rogers or Bell.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com both think the squirrel is hot.

The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Battle of Vimy Ridge Edition)

General Ludwig von Falkenhausen presents "The Week of Suffering" (circa April 2-9, 1917) –>slide 2
Artillery relentless
I'd guess about a million shells
Somehow can target our artillery, even though they're hidden behind ridge
We ran out of aspirin, earplugs.
Allied General Arthur Currie presents "Better Creeping" (circa April 9, 1917) –>slide 4
first wave attacks behind creeping barrage
continuous line of shells
improve on what we did at the Somme.
Corporal Gus Sivertz (2nd Canadian Mounted ...

The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Henri Bergson Edition)

Time and Free Will (circa 1889)

–>slide 99
human experience is a continuous flow
not events in succession, as physics would have it
time is experienced as duration
so it can seem longer than it is
like this lecture.
Laughter (circa 1901) –>slide 3
laughter is a corrective process that makes society possible
we laugh at people who do not adapt to needs of society
the comic always has something mechanical in something living
similar to this essay.
An Introduction to Metaphysics (circa 1903...

The Lost Power Point Slides (Edgar Rice Burroughs Edition)

Presentation of Oeuvre (slides one through five)

A Princess of Mars (first book in John Carter of Mars series)
Disaffected ne'er-do-well white man rescues savage and extremely naked princess
Along the way, he learns her language, fights strange creatures, and proves his superiority
Then he gets it on with her.
Tarzan of the Apes (first book in Tarzan series)White child raised by apes becomes a noble and mostly naked savageHe meets Jane, a beautiful English woman, and must save herAlong the...

The worst toilet in Switzerland

Having recently watched Trainspotting, I was struck by how funny (and then disgusting) the "worst toilet in Scotland" scene was. So, that toilet wins for nasty. I think we have to give the prize for frightening to this toilet hanging over a precipice in the Swiss Alps.

Now, what the photo doesn't show very well is the dangers of approaching the summit from this face of the mountain. In addition to bad weather, avalanches and deranged goats, this approach has the added danger of being...

Ask General Kang: Do you enjoy daylight savings time?

Yes, of course. There's nothing I enjoy more than having to reset my body's circadian rhythms because of your human delusion that you control things. Most of you can barely operate your own crude technologies properly (put up your hands if you know how to stop your PC from launching Outlook), so I love the farce that is daylight savings time.

Ooo, look at us humans, we're the masters of time and space. We can set the clock back. We can set it forward. We call the shots.

I haven't seen a...

The Button

An interesting update on the controversial Milgram experiment, but instead of an authority figure, we have one million dollars. And instead of an actor pretending to be shocked, we have nameless, distant, hypothetical dead people:

The Button – watch more funny videos
Alltop and humor-blogs.com have no problem inflicting pain … and funny.

Webmonkee creates book trailer for Marvellous Hairy

On the off-chance you didn't catch this on my author's page, you should check out the video Webmonkees created for Marvellous Hairy:

Practical Applications of the Infinite Monkey Theorem:

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If the embedded link doesn't work, you can find it at YouTube, or even better, check it out in the large format at Webmonkees!

Alltop and humor-blogs-com also have an infinite number of keyboards at their disposal.

Ubiquity Twelve and the Follicle Twins

Ubiquity Twelve was having a bad trip.

His phrenologist had told him not to drop acid, but the consummate rebel wouldn't listen.

"Mr. Twelve, with your malformed cranium and its occlusions, it is just not safe for you to ingest psychotropic substances and certainly not massive doses of them," the quack had said. "You could suffer from explosive nasal protuberances, and perhaps even cerebral exo-location!"

But the bastard hadn't said anything about bad hair.

About the Photographer: Toulouse Le...