It is New Year's Eve 1852 and Henry HYDENWELL sits at his desk by candlelight. He dips his quill pen in ink and begins to write his New Year's resolutions ( Read more... )

cvirtue has posted links to a hilarious remake of various popular books' covers to reflect their *actual* content.

Part the First.
Part the Second.
Part the Third.

I think this one and this one are my favorites.

There was a surprisingly compassionate Fark thread today about Utah residents being annoyed because a newspaper printed a lesbian wedding announcement, and the following piece of beauty was posted in the comments (yes, I know it's been circling the internet, but I liked it):

Top Ten Reasons to Make Gay Marriage Illegal01) Being gay is not natural ( Read more... )

I've got a present for you. I love you guys so muchIn other news, today is Star Island Halloween. I'm going as Betty Moody, one of the island's legendary figures. According to word-of-mouth, Betty Moody was the colonial-era minister's wife. During a Native American raid on the Shoals, she hid with her small child in a crevice in the rocks. The ( Read more... )

Evil Monkey’s Guide to Kosher Imaginary Animals.

Ever wondered if hobbit was kosher? Mermaid? Jackalope?

In other news, it's supposed to get up to 78*F today. It is very weird to be hanging around in t-shirts when there's still a foot and a half of snow on the ground.

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Well, my mom hasn't taken me off her random forward list, so I guess that's something. She sent me this today:

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls had begun to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on ( Read more... )

I'm a member of lolhistory, which is a community themed around history macros. Much of it relies on the kind of jokes that only pure history-dorks love (a Mesopotamian carving captioned "Im in UR!", a 16th century still life of a table setting labelled "I can has cheese, burgher?").

i_iz_norml posted one on Socrates today, which I think is now my favorite one from ( Read more... )

There's a thread on Fark about stupid names, and someone posted this from XKCD:


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