Category: Humor
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In honor of Halloween, some paranormal books I'd like to see … Happy Halloween!
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In a recent post I discussed the much-hyped news that the identity of Jack the Ripper had finally been revealed via DNA analysis of an old shawl purportedly found at one of the murder scenes. I also discussed objections raised by so-called "ripperologists" – dedicated aficionados of the unsolved Ripper murders, who have learned to…
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To celebrate another year of blogging, here's a cryptic crossword with themes drawn from this blog's contents. Click on the image to see a full-size pop-up. When the puzzle is done, the red squares, read from left to right, line by line, will spell out a message. If you haven't done a cryptic crossword,…
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A miscellany of minutiae* … [Update, 2023: I removed some outdated content, so the "miscellany" now consists of only one item.] I've been playing around with the idea that some of the ambiguities of paranormal phenomena might be best understood as occupying borderlands between states of consciousness. Not sure if there's anything to this, but…
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Depressed by the recent spate of bad news – chaos in Wisconsin, civil war in Libya, hell on earth in Japan? Take a break with some YouTube clips of the first appearances of well-known comedians on The Tonight Show. First up, the incomparable Steven Wright. Next in the queue, Jerry Seinfeld, who gets a lukewarm…
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I once thought of a children's book called Do You Suppose. Never really pursued it. Jotted down a few lines, nothing more. Came across these jottings the other day while cleaning out some old papers. Here's all I wrote of my unfinished masterpiece: Do you supposeThat the good ship ArgoEver reached Key LargoOr even…
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Here's a dead-on accurate animated film, with computer-generated voices, about the delusions nurtured by many (most?) would-be novelists. Good stuff. By the way, the link to this YouTube video was sent to me by the trickster himself – George Hansen.
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Longtime readers of this blog may find some humor in an email message I received today. Here it is in its entirety, with one expletive deleted: how dare you criticize zammityou f—-ing crack pot. Pithy, no? I think it's haiku. 🙂 (The reference is to a feud I had some time ago – now thankfully…
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Has any celebrity of the worldwide stature of Tiger Woods ever seen his reputation collapse so quickly and so completely? Lo, how the mighty have fallen. It's enough to put one in a poetic mood. "Tigerwoodsias" I met a golfer from a foreign portWho said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of tinStand in a sand…
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The FAIL Blog offers a couple of memorable examples of scientific theorizing in action. First up, a short video that identifies a terrifying worldwide government conspiracy. (The video takes a few seconds to load.) Second, a simple solution to global warming. Hint: This weekend is a particularly appropriate time to be reading about this solution. Science…