Thanks to Katie Carr on Threads, I just learned: in 1996, the cast of the newly-launched “Star Trek: Voyager” got together to do a feature for Parade magazine about the power of late-’90s technology.
Behold its fabulously unhinged glory.
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Genie: *has been asleep for 6,000 years*
*is learning English on the fly*
*has never seen a computer*
I will grant your wish for one million Bitcoins, oh Master!
Genie: *starts putting teeth marks into pennies*
Seems like the kind of shit I always get in trouble for, though.
Story idea: A man is stranded on backroads in a blizzard, and is able to survive for days on end by living in his SUV, subsisting on the spilled cheerios and Goldfish he finds in the cushions of his toddler's car seat.
Tolkien: well well well
Tolkien: now look who's laughing!
Tolkien: hmm hey clive
CS Lewis: what
Tolkien: remind me, has the archbishop of whatever ever quoted aslan?
Lewis:
Tolkien: i'm sorry i can't hear you
Tolkien: what was that again?
Lewis: no
Tolkien: ha ha that's what i thought!
Costco was very busy today. Yet it was readily apparent that, by extraordinary coincidence, I was the only person in the entire store who had ever before been out in public.
East Liberty. 5700 Penn Ave - Whole Foods. Caller says that they are alarmed by a guy walking around with a sword. PD said they know about the guy and that is just what he does
samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta
"Nathan is the owner and future wearer of a pair of pants that seems to have already killed once..."
--Thomas Ligotti, Notes on the Writing if Horror: A Story
Take control of your mind. Start thinking for free!
See and read the full comic on penny-arcade.com !
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And you may saye to yourselfe
These are not my lone and level sandes
And you may saye to yourselfe
These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone
Protaginist: How long before you can synthesize an anti-venom?
Scientist: I'm a fucking meteorologist.
Protagonist: ...
Scientist: ...
Protagonist: ...
Scientist: ...
Protagonist: ...
Scientist: 24 hours.
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Hey sorry, I can't come in for my shift today, there were some omens. Yeah, like signs and portents. What? Of course they were fell, I wouldn't be calling out otherwise.
You could rewrite the fairy tale so that every time the guy asks, the lady says, "Actually, if I untie the ribbon, my whole-ass head falls off and rolls away, and I die," and the rest of it would play out exactly the same.
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot