Thanks to kobold, I’ve now seen the weirdest thing I’m likely to tonight.
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Coming this fall to London’s West End
Samuel Beckett
teams up with
Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersen
to bring you the hot new musical
Waiting for Bobby Fischer
The play takes place during a world chess tournament where Fischer, as usual, fails to show up. Starring Barry McGovern and Elaine Paige. Reserve your tickets today!
 Dear Santa…
Dear Santa, This year I’ve been busy! Last month I put gum in telynor‘s hair (-12 points). In July I committed genocide… Sorry about that, cadhla (-5000 points). Last Monday I helped kitanzi across the street (6 points). In August I donated bone marrow to catalana in a life-saving procedure (300 points). Last Wednesday I didn’t flush (-1 points). Overall, I’ve been naughty (-4707 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking!
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Yeah, that sounds fair. Any volunteers? 😉
So, katyhh points to the Squirrel Name Generator. And I thought “Well, that sounds cute.” So I went and entered my name, to see what it spit out.
My squirrel name is “Arch Bishop Bushkisser”.
How oddly appropriate. 🙂 (I wonder what my anteater name is….*blinks innocently*)
Me: “Ok, so what would you put in a Slippery Lesbian?”
Tomorrow, November 5th, is Guy Fawkes Day, and the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. What’s that all about, you say? All is explained by scarletdemon.
In 1605, English Catholics were angry that they did not have equal rights, so their leader (Pope Trevor the Third) signed what Catholics call a “Fatwa” and sent it to Guy Fawkes to be carried out. Fawkes assembled a band of like-minded terrorists and they decided to assassinate King James I, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy, in one fell swoop, by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening. They saw themselves as soldiers of fortune, helping people in need. But who were these desperate men? Guy Fawkes had chosen some of the best minds in pyrotechnic history: Himself, George Handel, Arthos, Porthos, Shakespeare, Dogtanian and fuse specialist Artemis Richlieu. Their famous cry of “Penny For The Guy And One For All!” has become a regular catch-phrase for children begging outside corner-shops (with their Guy Fawkes effigies), even today.
(Thanks to sclerotic_rings for the pointer…)
Seen on a mailing list:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=82458&page=1&pp=15
Wherein, you shall find stuff like:
Yon renowned fellow, let us kick it
Ho, everyone, cease, I prithee listen
Thor hath returned with a new invention
Something taketh hold of me most tight
Floweth like a harpoon day and night
Shall it ever end? I doth not know
Conjure the darkness and I shall glow
To great measure, mine voice is as a vandal
Brighten mine surroundings and snuff a life as though ’twere a candle
Yon mystic dance doth boom like a storm in motion
I bring death upon thee as like a black potion
Lethal, when I doth serenade thee
For any lesser tune wouldst be a travesty
Art thy affections roused, or dost thou flee?
Thou shouldst aim well, lest I forsake thee
If there be any ill, I shalt resolve it
Look thee upon mine hook while mine DJ revolves it
and
Ooh, mine beloved, knowest thou what that be worth?
Ooh, Valhalla art a place on Earth.
The minstrels sing that in Valhalla, love comes first
Thou makest Valhalla a place on Earth.
Ooh, Valhalla art a place on Earth.
EDIT: Due to confusion, I’ll point out that this is a pastiche of the Marvel Comics rendition of Thor, in which Stan Lee puts a high school production of Shakespeare through a blender on puree.
Courtesy of
Turn Your Hamster Into a Fighting Machine!
I think it’s the “Troubleshooting Tips” that really makes it.