Just out of boredom, here's a list of things that NetHack (the game) will yell at you, or have others yell at you:

Bang ( Read more... )

From Hana Videen's entertaining The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (p. 132):

The tenth-century Exeter Book contains an assortment of riddles, some of which are indubitably suggestive. In one riddle a wondrous creature, erect and tall, brings joyful expectation to women, standing up in a bed; sometimes a girl assaults it and a tear comes to ( Read more... )

Here you go:

1. Nuts … my shaft is bent.
2. After 18 holes I can barely walk.
3. You really whacked the hell out of that sucker!
4. Look at the size of his putter!
5. Keep your head down and spread your legs a bit more.

That's CBT as in cognitive-behavioral therapy:



And really, it really IS that easy … if you want to.

More True Facts, courtesy of the inimitable zefrank1 - first, the majestic wacky giraffe:



And as a bonus, the little-known oppih, a.k.a. the stub-nosed anteater:



Isn't nature beautiful. :)

Thanks are due to Mitch Benn for creating this song and video, Fuck All, and to canisrufus_uk for bringing it to my attention. :)



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And then, it occurred to her. Edible dynamite.

- cleverpun, The Elements of Excess

I recently learned that vegetarian haggis is apparently a thing. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, I'd readily agree it is, but it does exist, and you can even order it online, canned.

However, none of the efforts I've seen seem to go far enough in ( Read more... )

Found deep in the bowels of the TeXhax mailing list - the Underfull Badness Blues:

The Underfull Badness Blues

by Frankeye Jones

(to the tune of "Da Doo Ron Ron")

I thought I put the backslashes in

I thought I did it right;

But when I tried to run the thing

The screen displayed this sight:

"Error, error, error," it said
So I've got no time to ( Read more... )

From the list-of-things-I-should-do-more-often: put on a black suit and tie, grab a briefcase, and walk up to random people on the street saying things like "it's nice weather we're having today, but it's not as nice as in Russia"... and then politely say good-bye and walk away, no matter the response ( Read more... )