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• Commented on Japanese hidden camera show: Panic Face King
  I don't really see how the fact that the victim is a professional comedian matters if they don't know what they're facing going in. They may have an idea 'oh, I'm gonna be pranked in this job', but unless they...
• Commented on Video of laser weapon fired from airplane
  Don't think of it as an Advanced Tactical Laser. Think of it more as outsourcing your deep-frying needs. All those tax dollars are really just being spent on fine instant-delivery cuisine....
• Commented on Shelley Rickey's "Bad Dog Pâté"
  Ten minutes ago, I'd have said that foodwise presentation didn't really matter that much to me. Now I have to eat my words....
• Commented on D&D camp, circa 1982
  Being a substitute counsellor at Harbourfront D&D Camp in 1990 was my favourite job EVAR. I lied about my age to get it and the punk kids stole my books, but I was making enough to cover the losses and...
• Commented on You and the Pirates
  Not all Canadian authors are CanLit; there are plenty of examples of Canadian authors who do not write CanLit - Cory's the most obvious counterexample for BoingBoing readers. But CanLit is badly infected by a pessimistic realism that paints nature...
• Commented on Cthulhu violates a Parsec science fiction award
  They may want to put a stronger warning on this video in future. I just saw it and then ate my own CTHULU F'THAGN CTHULU F'THAGN CTHULU F'THAGN...
• Commented on Tiny Art Director: a 4-year-old critiques her father's art
  Now I'm out of my hyperglycemic shock, thank you for the common sense, pixelfish....
• Commented on Tiny Art Director: a 4-year-old critiques her father's art
  ...Went to site...Why?...so foolish... ...Too sweet...for..blood...ky00tness...overdose ...Need...insulin... --Devin...Carless...
• Commented on Don't tase me bro automaton
  Somewhere someone has too much free time. And too much talent....
• Commented on Hospital Food Photo Blog
  Adam0694: "For everyone here who made a mockery of this you're about to feel really stupid or at least shameful. This meal is pureed and put into a mold to look like themselves in an original state." ..You can just...
• Commented on Kids' Diplomacy board made out of a pizza box
  "My fleet moves from the Grease Stain Sea to transport troops to the Mozzarella Mountains."...
• Commented on Warren Ellis's GI Joe
  I'm afraid I'm with 13stong on this one. But I reread Slaughterhouse-Five this morning, so my brain may be biased. It's 2009. We've pretty much seen everything here before. Maybe it suffers from the same problem as Star Trek: The...
• Commented on Daniel Pinkwater's new novel The Yggyssey online -- MIGHTY IS MY W00T!
  I've been trying to remember this guy's name for two decades now. And Alex Mendohlson was, again, one of my very favourite books as a kid. I still make green death chili jokes....
• Commented on lolwtf: "F1 Nose Cone and Steering Wheel with Clock and Neon Light"
  Okay, I'll confess that I went looking for the larger-than-life-size kneeling blindfolded topless bronze figure. But my mind screamed 'it hurts, it hurts!' well before I found it. I mean, it's easy to take cheap shots at 'Alien Encounter On...
• Commented on Lamboghini Gallardo Stilettoes: your girlfriend's feet as a mech robot
  This quote came to mind: “Good taste is better than bad taste but bad taste is better than no taste.” --Arnold Bennett What category you think these shoes fall into, of course, is on your own conscience. --Devin...
• Commented on Signing off
  Most of what I have to say can be summed up as 'hear, hear.' Even though climatology is the one science that bores me to tears, I appreciated the post on Wal-Mart. --Devin...
• Commented on Kid on Drugs, the Animated Remake.
  OMFG, now I wanna see Home Movies again. Now that I think about it, that show reminds me of You Suck At Photoshop for some reason. --Devin...
• Commented on Kid on Drugs
  I remember once seeing America's Funniest Home Videos, oh, about twenty years ago. (It doesn't feel like that long.) A kid was coming down a snowy hill on an inner tube (as I recall, face first.) The inner tube passed...
• Commented on Susie Bright reads Thurber's version of a "The Night Before Christmas," in the Hemingway Manner
  Again with the Thanks for Thurber. ``That`s your eye!`` he shouted. ``You`ve fixed the lens so that it reflects! You`ve drawn your own eye!`` --University Days, `My Life and Hard Times`....
• Commented on Draw an ice cream bar in Photoshop
  I've strapped on my stupid and I'm going in....
• Commented on You Will Not, In Fact, Put Anyone's Eye Out
  I'm surprised no one's mentioned chemical castration and Depo-Provera yet. (I remember reading about them in my first year university psych textbook, which was a long time ago.)...
• Commented on Fetus cookie cutter
  It's a conspiracy! That, or the cookie changes shape while baking. I thought the reflected 'eye' in the cookie cutter was very creepy....
• Commented on Amelie, Jr.
  ...Downfalled on YouTube in 10...9...8......
• Commented on Letters From Johns
  Dear Mr. John, First of all, don't let any comments you see here or elsewhere get you down. Not that I think any Boinger would troll this thread. Second, I'm not going to offer any other advice, but I will...
• Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
  Things from this election I hope I never hear or see again: - the phrase "thrown under the bus" - "in the tank" - "Joe Sixpack" (some of us don't like beer) - "Yes We Can" (sorry Obama) - "Drill,...
• Commented on Bruce Schneier will liveblog election results at Making Light
  I'm not sure what bad acid America dropped to fear socialism so much. Sometimes I think Mark Steyn's daddy hit him with a rolled-up Socialist Worker when he was a kid. How else does one explain his apparent belief that...
• Commented on German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
  Boingers, I know you all appreciate a good prank, but...no one is above the law. Not even Muppets. I'm sure we all recall how the "Swedish Chef"[1] escaped multiple cruelty to animals charges. And the Muppet Theatre was, very plainly,...
• Commented on Caligula for President: It's Time for a Tyrant
  No wonder they made him emperor, what with having those kickass shades in the first century and all....
• Commented on John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost time
  Keighvin... ...Any way you can call in sick and show up for work at the same time?...
• Commented on John Hodgman: A brief digression on matters of lost time
  Hmmm. I find it highly suspicious that "Mr. Hodgman", despite the alleged injury to his ass (and implantation of alien technology therein) still did not go to what was possibly a topless beach with Katherine Fletcher. Doesn't sound like male...