Monthly Archives: March 2008

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Groundhog Day: “Special” Is The Operative Word

Posted on 30 March by Vernon
Tkklhth: Look! Another human artefact!
Rgdgdg: It appears to be a wrapper for an optical disc.
Tkklhth: What can it tell us about this culture?
Rgdgdg: That they were often deformed, with their faces a bit too small for their heads?
Tkklhth: Or perhaps they were crap at Photoshop.

Embiggen. Props to Antony.

Reader Captions: 

I dunno, I think that if our eyebrows grew that close to our eyeballs, we’d all be pretty pissed off. by Eric

I dunno, Bill Murray has always had a pretty big forehead. by Apositive

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Nipplegate: Only In Florida

Posted on 29 March by Vernon
Thanks to JR for this link on the Florida WWE nipplegate drama. Apparently Florida law prohibits pictures of nipples in public, with the law possibly being taken too literally in this case.

The big winner in blog coverage was sociological images, a clever parody of 1970s feminist windbaggery serious academic explanation of why deleting or showing nipples is either bad or good.

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The Accidental Husband (part 1)

Posted on 27 March by SiteOwner
Suspension of disbelief is the willingness of an audience to invest emotional resources in a story that they know to be false. The main belief to be suspended here is that the designers cared about their work.

  1. It would help if you actually looked at the person you were half-heartedly pretending to catch.
  2. Monty Python feet.
  3. That’s a remarkably serene expression, Mr Head Paste.
  4. Chrysler building has inexplicably moved to Chelsea. It doesn’t even line up with the street grid.
  5. We’ll let this one go, as it is entirely possible that Colin Firth really does have giant hands.
  6. The.
  7. Worst.
  8. Cutout.
  9. Ever.

Thanks to everyone who sent this one in, and yes, I know the other poster is even worse. Stay tuned. Full size here.

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