Thursday, November 15, 2012

THE HORROR, THE HORROR, THE HARDBACK HORROR




















So these are the best selling books on the planet? I must confess I had to Google The Alchemist, but the real horror was The Twilight Saga, I mean, The bloody Twilight Saga!!! Words fail me. And where’s the Koran?

Click here for Bo and the Duchess

The secret word is Gutenberg 


DRACULA SEZ…




















“Idiot children of the night. I will show them twilight.” 

SPACE OPERA


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

DUMB AND DUMBER




















This theory took me totally by surprise. But it does have it’s point. Is your phone smarter that you are? Roll on the Singularity and let Skynet sort it out. I’ll be dead anyway.

"Humankind's intelligence peaked thousands of years ago and advanced civilization has made life so easy for so many that our trend towards stupidity will continue as the ingenuity and intellect once needed for basic survival erode even further. This, anyway, is the argument of a new study out in the journal Trends in Genetics, authored by  Stanford University professor Gerald Crabtree. Crabtree's study claims that harmful genetic mutations—occurring generation after generation as society advanced—have reduced our "higher thinking" abilities and the accumulated result has led to a gradual dwindling of our intelligence as a species. The Guardian explains that Crabtree's thinking is a speculative idea—one he'd be happy to have prove wrong—but also a simple one: In the past, when our ancestors (and those who failed to become our ancestors) faced the harsh realities of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, the punishment for stupidity was more often than not death. And so, Crabtree argues, enormous evolutionary pressure bore down on early humans, selecting out the dimwits, and raising the intellect of the survivors' descendants. But not so today. “I would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas and a clear-sighted view of important issues,” Professor Crabtree  says in the paper." (Click here for more)

Click herefor them old Pistols

The secret word is Stupid 

THE HISTORY OF THE EVERYTHING IN TWO MINUTES


Click here. It’s well worth the time. (Supplied by Mr MR)

50 SHADES OF CHICKEN


THE FROZDICK FAMILY













Marco Frozdick insisted on smoking the weird weed. 


SPACE OPERA


Lemmy? Who is old enough to remember?

GRATUITOUS READER


Sunday, November 11, 2012

SUNDAY BREAKFAST














It’s a rare weekend when I can get up on a Sunday morning like I truly deserve a Bloody Mary and a bacon sandwich because the preceding week was not for once enclosed in a complete fog of blurred and distorted cosmic anti-matter and I don’t need to slither illicitly out of bed like a reluctant reptile. Obama was re-elected and, no matter how he let us down during the first term, at least the Gates of Conservative Hell didn’t swing open. I know New York and New Jersey are still a mess but can I be forgiven for being relieved that this time it isn’t happening to me. I figure we’ll all get our share of doomsday weather in due course. But can I think about that tomorrow and, for today, go on grinning at how the Director of the CIA – Bush’s favourite general – has totally screwed himself and dumped his career by fucking a good looking biographer, and maybe more? And can I feel all good and smug because three US states have legalized marijuana, while in Europe the concept that an economy can be saved by the draconian exploitation of the poor seems to be losing its already spurious philosophical support and the Bundesbank should be backing off if it knows what’s good for it? This may all be undue optimism and no doubt paranoid calamity will crash in on us tomorrow, but will you all allow me a day at the rose-tinted monitor?

Click here for Dolly Parton

The secret word is Eternal

THIS IS A BACON SANDWICH


MARILYN SEZ…

















“We know it’s a bacon sandwich.”

THE GROUCHO LETTER


GRATUITOUS FRINGE


JUST A REMINDER…





















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