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WTF? Harper ditches Summit on Climate Change!

So let's be clear about this. A hundred world leaders gather at the UN to discuss climate change, and our PM decides to meet with the mayor of New York instead?

Lest you have any trouble deciphering the hidden message, Harper is saying: "I don't give a shit about this so-called climate change thing." He's not even going through the motions.

And yes, the magnetic Environment Minister Jim Prentice attended all day, and Harper went to the dinner, but that's kind of like sending Forrest Gump to t...

Irony Alert! Alcohol protects your brain from head injuries

In the annals of unintended consequences, few are as baffling as this new finding that suggests alcohol helps protect the brain from head injuries.

A study of 38,000 people with noggin' trauma discovered that for every 100 people who died when sober, only 88 died when they had a little liquor in their limbic system.

According to Lead researcher Ali Salim of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles: "We need a better understanding of the exact mechanism, the appropriate dose and specific t...

Piles of fun

Little Billy Treepanning was in big trouble. This time he was going to get more than a "time out" and no dessert.

This time it was serious.

Not only had he vaporized the third nanny in as many months, sold Lazzie for scientific experimentation, and destroyed much of the Plexiglass Nebula, he'd used his father's imported Klaas Natu hemorrhoid cushion for his silly costume.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com loved vacationing in the Plexiglass Nebula. Photo via Strange Ink.

Funny ads

Not sure where I found this site, but they collect funny ads. I enjoyed this one about commuting from work via a giant waterslide. It made me think of Futurama, and then wonder, how does he GET to work?

Now, the site is called VERY funny ads, but I'd have to say this is a dangerous use of that particular word. I'd say the four that I looked at were funny, but very funny? That is rare adverbial territory. Nevertheless, worth a look.

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Welcome to Her Majesty's Military Academy for Muscular Gents!

Most cadets are not prepared — at least not mentally — for the initiation ceremony at the Her Majesty's Military Academy for Muscular Gents. Its homoerotic nature was repellent to most well-bred young

gentlemen, and even the most buff scion of the British upper-crust could not pull off an outfit consisting of Graeco-Roman diapers and plimsolls.

That would be done for them.

Alltop and humor-blogs.com are also strenuous heterosexuals. Photo via Postaltrice.

Professor Quippy: Women can't keep secrets

According to the Telegraph, women can't keep a secret. Yep, you heard it here first (well, second if you read the Telegraph) — the lid has be blown off this one.

Now, I'm not just being a sexist pig. You know it has to be true because it is from a STUDY. Done by RESEARCHERS.

Go on, go check out the article (link below), and you'll see it's all there in black and white. And red, because that's how your face will be once you realize that the deep dark secret you told your best friend — you ...

Practical Existentialism

Fagan was one persuasive bastard.

He'd seen Fagan tottering down the street a mile away, and thought, that poor bugger. Imagine, having to work as a cellular tower, just to make ends meet.

But Fagan stopped in front of the barefoot nanus, and said, "hello sir, would you like to make enough monkey squeeze to malfrapt your pedicles in glorious leather?"

Taken aback, he nonetheless understood the human telecommunications relay. "How much?"

"It's a piecework job. Think volume. You know, I own ...

Stormtroopers reminisce about the Death Star

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Alltop and humor-blogs.com are both drones!

Ah, the ducet tones of smooth jazz

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Alltop and humor-blogs.com love their psycho-fascist mellow bluegrass mixes. Via.

Selected Media Fads Through the Ages

24,000-22,000 BC: chunky fertility goddess statues (pictured at right: notice the prominent and large brains.)

10,000 BC: cave painting

4,000 BC: ziggurat construction

3,000-1,250 BC: pyramid raising (later revived by Mesoamericans and I.M. Pei)

1480-1700: Witch burning

1500s: homoerotic sonnet writing

1600s: pirate singing

1700s: pamphleteering

1760-1762: spreading syphilis

1790s: opera

1800s: novel-writing

1900-1914: being optimistic about the future

1919-1922: cutting up pieces of paper and pulling...