Damn good thing they don’t have a union
Xxxxx asked: > How did you lose contact with your characters? Well, what usually happens to me is they move and don’t leave a forwarding address. Then, when I catch up to them again, they give me...
View ArticleThe Top Fifteen Ridiculously Long Biblical Names
Okay, you free-love atheist swine. It’s time to put down your filthy bitmapped bimbos and your smutty newsgroups and sit up straight. Pastor Stephan is going to save your miserable asses from eternal...
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Xxxxx wrote: > Please. [Vampires] prefer to be called “blood lab technicians”. > And anyway they’re only pissed because of the stuff you > write about them. Can’t be that. Half the dingbats...
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I was musing on similarities between Santa Claus and system administrators. Consider: 1. Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny. 2. When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what...
View ArticleUSENET Oracularity 586-06
The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh great Oracle > How do I get myself a > black belt in haiku? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Typewriter...
View ArticleUSENET Oracularity #602-07
The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh omniscient one who knows whether Francis Bacon really wrote all > of Shakespeare’s plays but who’s not telling, >...
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In addition, HappyJet would like to assure you that (A) we have food tasters to make sure the pilots are not all incapacitated by bad fish, (B) we have screened the cabin crew to make sure none of us...
View ArticleFragment from The Three Stooges Meet Seymour Cray
MOE: Shaddap! Bring me that sort algorithm deck. LARRY: Okay, okay. Whoop! [Trips over FORTRAN IV manual. Cards go flying.] MOE: You nincompoop! CURLY: It’s okay, Moe. I punched line numbers onto that...
View ArticleMore detailed map of Apollo 11 landing site versus baseball diamond
The official NASA history site covering Apollo 11 includes this map of the Apollo 11 landing site superimposed on a baseball diamond to provide scale, but unaccountably leaves out a number of things....
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I’m trying to get some folks I know to write some fiction. Many of them are particularly good at puns– so just to make it hard, I’ve also included required lines that are to be followed by a play on...
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