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Oct. 7th, 2005 10:19 am
Oct. 7th, 2005
Morning comics trawling.
Oct. 7th, 2005 11:30 am
Photography stories: Explanations from the photographers on award-winning photos.
"Watching You"
Photographed by Gary Muth
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Oct. 7th, 2005 02:10 pmCarolyn Hax explains why "Why buy the cow when the milk is free?" is insulting to men, women, and cows.
Also,
Mothers use his name to scare their children while even adults hope they don't bump into him in the dark -- for more than 40 years Gopal Haldar has been making his living in India's Sunderbans mangrove region as a ghost.
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Vaccine against HPV, which causes cervical cancer, expected within a year.
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Pilot comes up with plan to earn a million free air miles in two months.
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"Blind driver to attempt to set world speed record on BMW M5 with its electronic restrictors removed. What could possibly go wrong?"
Also,
Mothers use his name to scare their children while even adults hope they don't bump into him in the dark -- for more than 40 years Gopal Haldar has been making his living in India's Sunderbans mangrove region as a ghost.
Also,
Vaccine against HPV, which causes cervical cancer, expected within a year.
Also,
Pilot comes up with plan to earn a million free air miles in two months.
Also,
"Blind driver to attempt to set world speed record on BMW M5 with its electronic restrictors removed. What could possibly go wrong?"
The 2005 IgNobel Prizes!
Oct. 7th, 2005 02:18 pmThe 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, October 6, at the 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
Winners include:
PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars."
NUTRITION: Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).
FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."
PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
Winners include:
PEACE: Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie "Star Wars."
NUTRITION: Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).
FLUID DYNAMICS: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu , Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defaecation."
PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 -- in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
Squirrels on crack!
Oct. 7th, 2005 02:32 pm
Nature lovers fear that London squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts' hidden stashes.
The furry animals are thought to be behind a new drugs turf war in Brixton - stealing rocks of crack hidden in front gardens
Drug addicts are known to be hiding small stashes of crack rocks in people's front lawns late at night. Squirrels have been spotted in the same front gardens, seemingly hunting out the buried narcotics.
The discovery has led some residents to speculate that the squirrels are already in the grips of addiction. One resident, who asked for his name to be withheld, told the South London Press.
"I was chatting with my neighbour who told me that crack users and dealers sometimes use my front garden to hide bits of their stash. An hour earlier I'd seen a squirrel wandering round the garden, digging in the flowerbeds. It looked like it knew what it was looking for. It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot but it kept on desperately digging."
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Oct. 7th, 2005 03:15 pm"I work for a financial publishing company. Which means that sometimes, I get some random swag from companies, brokers or mutual funds. Usually pens or those little squeezy stress ball things. That stuff sucks.
But one time, a company sent me their employee cookbook. It sucks, but in a completely awesome way.
Basically, this company has a lot of potluck events. The cookbook's intro tells a charming story of favorite dishes and taste-offs and like, five whole requests for a company cookbook.
So everyone made their favorite recipe which was then professionally and earnestly photographed using lots of ugly table linens and fake flowers. Employees were encouraged to tell the story of the recipe ("I done found this recipe on the back of the cereal box") and give a suggested wine pairing ("Boone's").
I also think everyone was required to use at least one package of shredded cheddar cheese. Just a guess though."
-The Company Cookbook.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flemco says it's "like a tasteless yet hysterical comic strip." and I can't really argue with that.
But one time, a company sent me their employee cookbook. It sucks, but in a completely awesome way.
Basically, this company has a lot of potluck events. The cookbook's intro tells a charming story of favorite dishes and taste-offs and like, five whole requests for a company cookbook.
So everyone made their favorite recipe which was then professionally and earnestly photographed using lots of ugly table linens and fake flowers. Employees were encouraged to tell the story of the recipe ("I done found this recipe on the back of the cereal box") and give a suggested wine pairing ("Boone's").
I also think everyone was required to use at least one package of shredded cheddar cheese. Just a guess though."
-The Company Cookbook.
flemco says it's "like a tasteless yet hysterical comic strip." and I can't really argue with that.
"Rob Liefeld makes the best crack"
Oct. 7th, 2005 06:49 pmwyatt1048 brings us this masterpiece.Here, we have the first seven pages of Rob Liefeld's "Godyssey", in which Jesus shows the Greek pantheon why He is the Alpha and the Omega.
No, really.
It's got mega-comic-action fight scenes.
I do not have the words to express how I feel about this. Stand by for gestures.
Snopes... In.... SPAAAAAACE!
Oct. 7th, 2005 07:12 pmClaim: Certain star systems towards the galactic rim are infested with a warm-blooded mammalian species that can enter your flux-pod when you vent waste
Status: True
Example: [collected via strandular lightband, Threephase 31094]
Status: True
Example: [collected via strandular lightband, Threephase 31094]
Illiterate Religious Nutbar News.
Oct. 7th, 2005 10:31 pm
The SMS Bible
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The Last Days Church has taken a novel step to prepare people for the Rapture: under each seat in the sanctuary is an airline-style safety card giving instructions for what to do when the Rapture takes place.
Fear the upcoming Velocirapture.
