Tag: news
Japan in the 1870s in art
Newspaper Nishikie is a huge archive of Japanese topical illustration from the 1870s: crime, politics, suicide, all kinds of weird topics. Below you see “Sumo Firemen”. Thanks, Ursi!
“But people don’t do that, especially in Tustin.”
OC Metroblogging has a nice wrapup of a Comedy Central prank played on my dear county, in which local notables found themselves on a panel discussion that slid rapidly downhill.
Long story short they got Ron Burgundied. The full LA Times story is at this link, where you may have to use genital/genital or bugmenot.
The honor of Tustin has been besmirched, and I can’t wait to see it!
Three Spam Names Get In A Fight
At a baby shower gone terribly wrong, shootings and beatings occur, affecting the lives of Aristotle Garcia, Jazz Rivas, and Cheryl C. Claprood.
The world is a fever dream lately.
Read them instead of me, I’m busy.
fengi says it way better than I can about the RAPE OF THE SOUL thing. Botticelli… what… catholic… Oh! It’s Judith Reisman! No wonder!
Meanwhile, ludickid made me chorf my tea with his necessary commentary on the Great Profanity Problem.
via robotwisdom: aaargh plop
I said: AAARGH PLOP!!
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Holy fucking shit, this is nasty.
7.5 quake in Mozambique. That can’t be good news for those people. Came out as a 6.9 at first, but 7.5? With that infrastructure?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usjlca.php
Today’s headline
Does Humor Belong in the News?
1:04 : ignatzmous : al’Powar-point: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=1537040
1:06 : zeb : I wonder if it says “al’Qaeda Confidential – Do Not Distribute” at the bottom of every slide
1:07 : ignatzmous : In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful, here is my presentation entitled: Communicating Bad News
1:07 : You couldn’t use “confused guy” clip art because it’s an entire stick figure dude, either
1:08 : “Here I illustrate the necessity for the total destruction of the Great Satan with an amusing cartoon, in which all the heads have been removed.”
1:08 : zeb : “This is the roadmap for 2006-7, as you can see many exciting developments coming in the jihad, and this is only what is disclosable, and Allah knows best”
1:10 : And it is Allah’s law that whole-page wipes are halal, and the clockwise wipe is haram, and the dissolve is mukrooh, and so it shall not be done, says Allah (His Name Be Praised)
1:12 : ignatzmous : Insh’allah, the details of implementation and the timeline for rollout and most of all the pricing shall be revealed, but not in this day or this time, and certainly not by the the humble servant of Allah who brings only this presentation.
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