The Odd Stuff

Dogs in heaven

August 9, 2010

I can’t quite cope with the theological seriousness of Michael Patton’s blog post on whether dogs go to heaven. If I were dyslexic, I might of course answer that heaven is where Dog lives anyway. But I’m not. For a little light relief I could point to the fake spat between the noticeboards of the [...]

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Keep this website in a safe place!

July 14, 2010
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Oops! Our local medical practice has clearly adapted the text of their website from a printed leaflet. When checking for a phone number today, I noticed this welcome. This website tells you about the practice and what we have to offer, therefore, please read it carefully. We trust that you will find it helpful and [...]

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Is this the best cease and desist letter ever?

June 22, 2010

Sometimes corporate legal stupidity excels itself. ThinkGeek report – and publish – the cease and desist letter they’ve received from lawyers for the US Pork Board pointing out that they have infringed a trademark with the slogan “the other white meat”. What, you may wonder is “this other white meat” that has so challenged the [...]

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Doctor Who cartoon card

June 15, 2010
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I got sent a most excellent thank you card today – thank you cards are always excellent to receive, but this had a great  Steve Best cartoon on it, as sent from one Doctor Who fan to another. Here’s a low-res scan. I guess if you’ll have to buy the card for yourself or a [...]

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NME: not exactly first for Hollywood news

May 29, 2010
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Big oops! (Screenshot taken at 21:50 BST, 29/05/10) The NME may (or may not) be first for music news as it proudly boasts, but it’s got some serious problems – or at least its sub-editor has – when it comes to news from the worlds of screen and stage. That should be Dennis Hopper, guys. [...]

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Atheists behaving badly: the Dawkinsgate fiasco

February 25, 2010

Before commenting on the – well fiasco doesn’t seem to strong a word, but let’s be more neutral away from the headline and say – kerfuffle at Richard Dawkins’ official site, let me point you to some posts dealing with it. The man himself is outraged But so is one of the seemingly dismissed moderators. [...]

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Princess Leia and the pound of Lego flesh

February 16, 2010
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There are a variety of ways in which I am finding this a little unbelievable. It’s not the Lego Star Wars, I have a problem with. It’s not even that anyone would recreate Jabba the Hutt’s barge in Lego. Nor, although my incredulity is growing, is it even that it looks like they’ve painted a [...]

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Danger – woman teaching? Hoist on her own petard.

February 15, 2010

I hadn’t previously had anything to say about the latest outbreak of fundamentalist misogyny in the Church of England: the vicar and curate outraging their congregation by telling women to shut up and submit to their husbands. Subsequently, it seems that the leaflet of “biblical” teaching on women was not the work of the Reform [...]

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Fake giants in archaeology photographs: fun or deceit?

February 11, 2010
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Michael Heiser posts some photos he’s been emailed of archaeologists excavating the skull of a giant. He also notes some reasons why they are fake. (That’s apart from the obvious one that there’s no such thing.) I’d like to add a couple of others. One of the first things I check when I suspect fakery [...]

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Spam and flagellation

February 8, 2010

There are always those spammers who hope that a piece of general flattery about your blog will tempt you into ignoring the generic unresponsiveness of the comment, or the link embedded in it. Even while not being fooled, I shall treasure today’s example, which seems to have been through some kind of computer translation programme: [...]

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