Archive for October, 2005

Analysis: Give Peas A Chance

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Category: Pun
Basis: “Give Pearce A Chance” - a rallying cry of support for Man City manager Stuart Pearce.
Why it’s funny: Stuart’s well known dislike of peas is cleverly contrasted against this supportive chant. One can imagine a slightly distracted Pearce thinking some well meaning City fans were vocally showing their appreciation for his work, [...]

Smell of the Ocean

Friday, October 7th, 2005

God damn polar bears and penguins and shit, how’s a man supposed to play his guitar with all that racket going on out there? And the wind! The whole place is one giant hill, and the wind howls down it without the slightest damn for the god damn blues. I’ve got three cases of whiskey, [...]

In this post I’m enjoying the rocket racing league

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Woah look at that vapour trail that’s pretty fast. Oh hold on it’s a cloud. My mistake.

Rocket Ship Racing

Friday, October 7th, 2005

The X prize guy is doing a Rocket Racing League. ROCKETS! Racing! Exclamation mark! Is there any way this could be bad?
Spectators will be able to follow the races by looking at the exhaust plumes in the sky and on hand-held GPS tracking devices.
That’d do it.

I’m a poor man’s version of a rich man

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Wacky Sites (potentially also kooky):
Wacky B - A blog about Instant Messaging. Features a Bee as a logo, which is pretty wacky because really there aren’t that many Bees on IM. Even bumblebees, which are pretty big.
Wacky Packages - Yahoo! “Best of the Web” pick of the week: 8/16/02.
Wacky Web Tales - (edutainment)
Wacky Neighbour - [...]

You are on a blog.

Friday, October 7th, 2005

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> W
> Look
This game fucking sucks.

Have you seen my nunnery?

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Don’t pretend to me that you don’t know where the ugly heart of this matter lies. There are fourteen or fifteen peons more psychotic than you that I’ve dealt with this week, and I don’t think you want to know what I’ve done with their crustacean infested corpses. You’ve got about thirty seconds to give [...]