Category: Curios & Humor

Remember those billboards with pithy comments attributed to God, such as "Keep using my name in vain, I’ll make rush hour longer"? Well, God is speaking again and a new series of billboards capture his comments:

"One nation under me."

"Life is short. Eternity isn’t."

"If you must curse, use your own name!"

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(Nod to Katie Allison Granju for the link.)

I read in the recent coverage of Benedict XVI’s election — it was either Time or Newsweek, but I don’t have the issues in front of me — that Theodore Cdl. McCarrick of Washington said, probably with heavy irony, that the cardinals knew that Cdl. Ratzinger was the favorite when they read it in the newspapers. He figured that the Holy Spirit could speak through newspapers.

Looks like the Holy Spirit speaks through billboards, too.

<Rule 15b>R. V. Miole</Rule 15b> writes:

Hope you’ve been having a great week. Offered you and your apostolate up during Mass today. Thought I’d give you this hilarious link since you mention H.P. Lovecraft once in a while. Don’t die of laughter…the Church still needs you. I think you should post more of your thoughts on Lovecraft–I don’t think I’m the only one who’d want to hear your views on his life and works.

In Jesus and Mary,
R.V. Miole

http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html

P.S. You have permission to credit me for the link

P.S.S Dude, you should blog about pipe smoking. Seriously, what sort of tobacco do you smoke? What kind of pipe do you use?

Yeah, I’ll have to blog on that soon, I s’ppose.

In the meantime . . .

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Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

When you are a student at MIT and you are in the mood to play a trick on someone, you can’t just Vaseline their doorknob or fiddle with the settings on their spell checker. People expect a little higher grade of tomfoolery from future code writers. So, when these two MIT chums got more bored than usual they decided to play a hoax on the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics! No, seriously!

They sat down and wrote this nifty program that randomly generates scientific research papers, including charts and diagrams and tech-speak so jargon-bloated and convoluted that it’s difficult to distinguish from REAL scientific gibberish (I learned a little of this kind of thing myself, when I took a seminar in Grant Writing) and their paper was accepted for presentation at the conference!

They are now trying to raise money to travel to the conference and give a randomly generated talk on their paper. The event organizers aren’t too excited about that, though, and may not let them in. The paper is hilarious to read because you know it’s fake, and the story also has a link you can follow to randomly generate your own scientific treatise!

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Yes, it true! They are no good. It is bad very checker. They clear everything in this post blog. No green line squiggly. These sentence no verb.

Microsoft, it needs fix grammar checker or ditch. So articles say. I agree with it. I am violates multiple grammar rules herein. Last sentence two main verbs! Yet no squiggly line green still!

Microsoft Word grammar checker creation of Easter Bunny for mankind harm!

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You’ve heard of book reviews, movie reviews, even restaurant reviews. But have you heard of cereal reviews? Probably not. Neither had I until I saw mention of The Empty Bowl on the Food Network. Intrigued and amused, I pulled up the site. Not only do these guys review cereals, they also review cereal accoutrements. I’d venture to say that not many people wonder whether powdered milk is a tool of the devil, but I guess some do (with tongues firmly planted in cheeks, no doubt):

"Powdered Milk. Just saying the words makes some people cringe in fear. But, why is such a stigma placed on powdered milk? After all, people like dried fruit. Beef jerky seems popular. Sun dried tomatoes, anyone? But, just try to market some dried out milk and watch people turn up their noses. Maybe it’s a class thing. Still, it is widely available, so someone must be buying the stuff. I walk by large boxes of it every week at the grocery store. I usually walk quickly through the powdered milk section trying not to make eye contact with any of the people on the boxes. So, a few weeks ago, after making my usual dash, I ended up in the Ethnic food isle, only to find … more powdered milk."

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I’d completely forgotten, but today is Jack Chick’s birthday!

Yee-Haw!!! Happy Birthday, Jack!!!

Yes, Jack Chick was born April 13, 1924, so he’s 81 years old today. (And it’s not just Wikipedia that says so; I checked some research I did on him, online here.)

Interestingly, Wikipedia’s article on him is heavily dependent on things I’ve written about Chick (I guess there aren’t that many Chick researchers out there), though it doesn’t realize the extent to which it is since a major piece it links (which it calls "Expose on Jack Chick") didn’t carry my byline.

It also has my drawing of Chick. (Will have to think about whether I want to let Wikipedia use that as I am the copyright holder. Probably don’t mind if they put in my copyright notice and say "used by permission.")

Anyway, happy birthday to the world’s cheesiest anti-Catholic!

Many happy returns, Jack!

(Cowboy hat tip to the reader woh e-mailed.)

In the combox for the Famous Liger Post (which continues to get hits from Google every day from what I can tell), a schoolgirl writes:

i love ligers all my techers said they did not egist……but now i have proof!!!

Thanks for making my day with my favorite comment in a long time!

Go show those teachers!

Be careful how you express your fondness for ligers, though. It’s better to admire them from a distance for safety reasons.

My sister was laying odds that I’d be either Violet or Elastigirl. She was wrong:

Which Incredibles Character Are You?
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(Nod to the Two Sleepy Mommies for the link.)

My sister was laying odds that I’d be either Violet or Elastigirl. She was wrong:

Which Incredibles Character Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

(Nod to the Two Sleepy Mommies for the link.)

It’s a wake-up droid!

But it’s not an ordinary wake-up droid, like the one already sitting on your nightstand.

This one is designed to run away from you!

Specifically: When you hit the snooze button the first time, it rolls off your nightstand of its own volution and bounces softly on the floor (courtesy of its soft covering) and then rolls a random distance away (courtesy of Fred’s two feetit’s two wheels) and then sounds off again when the snooze period is up, forcing you to get out of bed and find it to shut it off.

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