Joe Cornish and Adam Buxton of Adam and Joe fame have submitted proposals for the theme song for new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.
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xkcd: Paleontology
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Still sucking at Photoshop
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The Tao of Ralph Wiggum
The throwaway line “Oh, boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a viking!” uttered by the character Ralph Wiggum in The Simpsons has caused unholy debate on the internet lately.
Does he mean, or perhaps more specifically what did The Simpsons’ writers intend the meaning to be?
A) That he has an enjoyable recurring dream in which he is a Scandinavian warrior.
or
B) That he excels at sleeping.
The debate on this topic at Metafilter outshines all others out there. Especially the following comment posted by fleetmouse.
English is a flexible, nimble, shifting-pathogen language and is more than able to absorb that slight stretch of a figure of speech
Yes, exactly – which is why people are arguing about this in the first place – we’re used to this goddamn inexterminable cockroach of a language having umpteen layers of literal and figurative meaning.
God, I love the Frankenstein’s monster that is English. Sewn together out of dead languages and living ones that it kills and uses for spare parts. If the human race were exterminated, English would find a new host or wait for one to evolve. English does not sleep. It waits.
I love this metaphor for the English language.
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LOLHURLEY
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The superposition of LOLCats
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Is it April or August?
Not only have we been experiencing summer like weather the past couple of weeks (Met office reports it to be the hottest April on record) but we’ve had a number of news stories more suited to the summer months when we get a slew of unusual stories on slow news days.
Some enterprising company has been conning thousands of wealthy Japanese ladies into believing lambs were valuable miniature poodles.
The bizarre scam was rumbled when Japanese movie star Maiko Kawakami complained on a talk show that her new poodle refused to bark or eat dog food.
She showed photos of the animal and was devastated when told that it was a lamb.
And a schoolteacher from Haverfordwest was tricked into having sex with a Syrian-born airline pilot who told her that he could cure a rash that she had through the method of administering it vaginally on the end of his penis.
The teacher put up with the treatment for nine months before telling her doctor.
Two very bewildering stories.
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We’re bachelors, baby.
Starts off very one note then gets boring then becomes NSFW and ends sublimely.
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What would Richard Feyman do?
Wellington Grey knows the answer and presents it in a handy little flowchart.
What was already a strange new story about a woman crashing her car into a DMV office that she’d been summoned to in order to take her driving test is pushed over the edge into the truly wonderfully bizarre by the following line.
Inexplicably, a man in a Superman costume could be seen walking around the car, but he did not stop to help the driver or any of the victims.
I guess there was a more critical emergency he had to attend to at that moment like a collapsing dam or something.