As I was sitting here in the Library, procrastinating on studying for finals, I found this horrible, terrible site: The Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Generator. Some of my favorite results:

Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Frankenstein and Nancy Drew.
The story should use shopping for a Wii as a plot device!

Generated ( Read more... )

Q: Why do mathematicians celebrate Christmas on Hallowe'en?

A: Because Dec 25 = Oct 31!

Happy Hallowe'en, everybody! And yes, I will be telling this exact same joke again in two months' time...

--mark

So, today a pretty substantial rain storm came through the Bangor area. The rain started sometime around a quarter ta' noon, when, during one of my lecture classes, we suddenly heard a great staticky pattering on the roof of the building. It continued coming down steadily until around four o' clock, and since then there have been intermittent brief ( Read more... )

Well, what with all the controversy raging around about the new LHC collider in France and Switzerland, and the (vanishingly small, infinitesimally tiny, makes winning the lotto 25 times in a row seem easy) possibility that it might destroy the planet Earth, I feel that it is my duty to 'splain to y'all exactly what the LHC does, so's that you can ( Read more... )

There was a young lady from Bude
Who went for a swim in a pond.
A man in a punt
Stuck his pole in the water
And said "You can't swim here, it's private".

With thanks to the good folks over at the TV Tropes wiki.

Subverting rhymes on every occasion since 1986,
--mark