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• Commented on Tom Gauld print: "Characters for an Epic Tale"
  Where's the Comical Rustic?...
• Commented on Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning
  A neutron goes into a bar and orders a beer. As the neutron is reaching for its wallet, the bartender looks at it and says, "Oh, for you--no charge."...
• Commented on People speak out on library censorship incident: “It’s dangerous to democracy when an interest group imposes its views on another.”
  As Mark Twain reputedly said when he was told that the Boston Public Library had banned Huckleberry Finn, "Well, that ought to sell another 50,000 copies."...
• Commented on Hippos don't like croocdiles climbing over their backs
  This was nothing like what the croc was hoping for....
• Commented on Cannibals reportedly sold body parts to kebab vendor
  Makes Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler's wares seem downright appetizing....
• Commented on Senators draw maps of their home states
  Oh, come, now! This is the USA we're talking about--your expectations are absurdly high. After all, when it comes to finding things on maps, "U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation...
• Commented on Garden Jawa
  The Slug People are easily startled, bu they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers....
• Commented on 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style
  It's an old joke, but it fits: What's the best evidence that the WTC attack wasn't Bush's doing? It worked....
• Commented on Happy Saganseve, Everybody
  My 12 year old is a budding Carl Sagan fan who is having no end of fun learning that he can use logic and evidence in replying to 1) a friend who is an enthusiastic Bigfoot believer and 2) a...
• Commented on 20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized
  Say, isn't there some way to blame Obama for this?...
• Commented on Careless forklift driver brings down the warehouse - video
  I've never driven a forklift. Somehow, I never would have thought myself to be in a minority on that....
• Commented on Fun With the Minneapolis Mayoral Race
  No Lizard People?...
• Commented on Seventh foot washes ashore in British Columbia
  Time for a chorus of "Ankles Aweigh."...
• Commented on Seventh foot washes ashore in British Columbia
  Put a sock in it....
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  Billy, you are positing a false dilemma, as if the only choices are "single payer" or "the incredibly tangled clusterfuck of a 'system' we have now." America currently spends the highest percentage of GDP on healthcare for a system that...
• Commented on Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing
  Probably too late to really contribute much to this thread, but what the hey...I just finished reading TR Reid's The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, which is one of those books that...
• Commented on Digital Open Winners: "Hybrid Airship," by teen robotic blimp builders.
  Ah--in that case, I stand corrected, and in proper awe :)...
• Commented on Digital Open Winners: "Hybrid Airship," by teen robotic blimp builders.
  Nifty! But as it doesn't appear to be even partly autonomous, shouldn't that be "radio controlled blimp" instead of "robotic blimp"?...
• Commented on Japanese hidden camera show: Panic Face King
  Ha-ha! This is such merry fun! Perhaps they can top this by trying to induce a coronary on hidden camera......
• Commented on Moon bombing is bad, for it will make the aliens very angry indeed.
  I say we MUST bomb the moon as retribution for the panic those Mooninite bastards caused in Boston a couple years back. Also, best comment from Wonkette's Epic Thread on this subject: "Mark my words: The Moon will be Obama’s...
• Commented on Big sale on vinyl Obama Hope Rebel flag
  "If it weren't for the whole slavery thing, I would probably be wishing the south had won the civil war." I couldn't agree more. And were it not for some hubbub during the third act, the April 14th 1865 performance...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  80-plus comments in this thread and not ONE reference to who controls the British Pound, who keeps the metric system down, or for that matter who made Steve Guttenberg a star? I am disappointed, folks, I really am....
• Commented on Poor design-choices in the Star Wars universe
  Death Star superlaser technician 1: So, anyway, I says, "Forget the dental plan, forget sick leave. I just want a railing. You know, one railing right here!" Death Star superlaser technician 2: Yeah, I know. I've almost fallen over that...
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  Perhaps due to the pervasive influence of Asian culture in Matt Deckard's Los Angeles, Roy Batty's last words hold up surprisingly well: "I can not believe people are looking for. Attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion. Near...
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  Even more trouble for the hapless user of the Monty Python Hungarian-to-English phrasebook: "My hovercraft is full of eels" becomes "I completely HOBAKURAFUTOUNAGI" Still, all is not lost. "You great poof!" morphs into "It's perfect for you!" and "Do you...
• Commented on Judge sentences man to 6 months for yawning in court
  An unsurprising number of the comments at the original boil down to "Thank goodness somebody's teaching blacks manners." Sigh....
• Commented on Man brings gun into jail hidden in his body rolls
  Clip, magazine, whatever. What I want to know is, can you make one out of LEGOS? (ducks)...
• Commented on Old Cutlass transformed into luxury ride with magical Chanel logo
  I'm kind of taken by the seller's low-fi attempt at search engine optimization: dub rim caprice impala donk box chevy regal cutlass el camino monte carlo magnum 300c charger challanger honda acura pontiac maxima altima donk caprice impala cutlass regal...
• Commented on US Health Care debate: scary Republican infographic countered by dreamy sherbet-hued Democrat infographic
  Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala (I'm pretty sure it was her) had a nice anecdote about perception vs. reality: a retiree who who worried about "the government interfering with my Medicare." (yes, yes, anecdote =/= evidence disclaimer)...
• Commented on Self-healing surfaces
  I just won't be impressed. Ever. So there....