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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Saddam Hussein’s last words

NOTE: This is not the thread in which to pimp out the death video. There IS a thread to discuss whether or not you’d watch the video, and that thread is here. Not here. I’m getting rather cranky about this and future such comments will probably be deleted. Deal with it.

No, I’m not going to [...]

achieving resolution resolution for New Year’s

from Mark Day For Parody Purposes Only, right there in the blogroll

Ali Eteraz on Saddam Hussein

Eteraz is a genius, but it’s not hard to see why some of us are a tad bit worried for him; the Muslim comic strip wasn’t really very funny, but it was really very dangerous. That was nothing, however, to today’s post about the execution of Saddam Hussein.

 
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The Darwin Awards for 2006

These are the most popular nominations, by public vote, for the year’s best examples of removing yourself from a grateful gene pool by sheer force of your own innate (or learned) stupidity. Interestingly, the overwhelming winner is contentious enough that they are considering removing the category altogether; it seems that there are quite a lot [...]

quiz: how deadly of a sinner are you?

This has got to be broken. No way is this me, and I’m all in a prideful wrath about it, yew betcha. Just look at me wrathing! Wrath, wrath, wrath! Boy, I don’t think I’ve ever been this wrathy, I’m telling you! And I intend to do something about it, too, just as soon as [...]

the second deadly sin: not just for humans anymore!

Urp. Scuse me!
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panic in Latvia!!!

Citizens in Riga, the capital of Latvia reported that a “wild boar” (a very bristly, scrawny, runty-looking kinda pig) had escaped from its pen, that’s how wild it was, it lived in a pen - I guess it’s wild the way Christopher Hitchens is Jewish - and was marauding through the Lavian countryside and even [...]

headline o’ the day: Fark on Saddam Hussein hanging

Seriously, they’re beer-sodden geniuses over there. Check it out:
S-dd-m / H-ss-in / T- / H-ng / in / H–rs

Republican Jesus on Christmas

From the unmatchable Jesus’ General.
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Saddam Hussein is dead

Al Jazeera reports that a US-sponsored tv station has reported that Saddam Hussein was hanged today at 3 am GMT Saturday, or less than one-half hour ago.
The former Iraqi president, who was ousted in April 2003 by a US-led invasion, was convicted last month of crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shia villagers [...]

linkie o’ the day: worst vlogs of 2006

Just what it says, 10ZenMonkeys‘ list of the very worst video blogs of the year, which I think I stole from BoingBoing but I don’t remember because hey, it’s the holidays and I’m wasted on strong tea and cold medicine.
I’d have left Ze Frank off the list(see comments below), because I’m a big mean nasty [...]

quiz: so you think you know Gilligan’s Island, eh little buddy?

I don’t.

I scored 55%!

I got 11 out of 20 correct on the Gilligan’s Island quiz.

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the two greatest Christmas movies in history

Okay, okay, the last Christmas post of the year.
For now.
First, the classic black and white detective thriller/witty romance The Thin Man, based on the much darker Dashiell Hammett story. This was the first movie the studio released after the repeal of Prohibition, which accounts for the jokes.

And the best black humour Christmas tale ever, Dennis [...]

pic o’ the day: some assembly required

Now, thanks to Worth1000, we finally know what he was thinking!

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the fudgsicle of doom! #1 in a series of jobs you do NOT want

In the presumably long list of Jobs You Do Not Want, Seriously, the job of backwoods logger looms large, or should. Why? Allow me to tell you the story of Hal Beek, heartlessly stolen from John Vaillant’s excellent book The Golden Spruce. I love books like this which are loaded with scientific trivia and anecdotal [...]

Former US President Gerald Ford: still dead

Just like James Brown, Buckwheat, my job prospects at Gawker, and the hopes and dreams of my generation.
Gerald Ford, people, is still dead. The Seventies are truly over.
What’s the latest scoop on the Dead President front? Perhaps, like Toby Crooke, wicked sexton of the charming town of Golden Friars, his body will lie in [...]

breaking news: Buckwheat is shot!!!

It’s a bad week for Seventies icons: first James Brown, then Gerald Ford, and now Buckwheat, beloved children’s entertainer.

Awww, once again NBC removes any reason for you ever to think that show was once good. Watch this while you cry yourself to sleep.
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quiz: what’s your seduction style?

Stole this from Archie’s Archive. He’s just a libertine; check THIS out, baby!

and me still single…imagine!

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James Brown, hardest working corpse in show business

Talk about hardcore! James Brown, the legendary entertainer, addict, and hardest-working man in show business, has been dead for three days and he’s still touring. Not only is he Doin’ it to Death, he’s Doin’ it In Spite of Death. Lying in state at the James Brown arena in Augusta, Georgia (playing to a capacity [...]

It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your stats are?

I certainly know where mine are.

In the toilet.
I suppose it’s a function of being offline for oh, say, three weeks off and on. Thanks to a unique combination of impecunity and historic windstorms in Vancouver, my apartment has been internetless for some time.
Naturally, I had to evacuate. I’m currently blogging from Ontario, which is, I [...]