Phun Stuff and Everything You Dislike: Oktober 2012

Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012

VOL 1160 - Oct 31, 2012 - Your Strange Halloween HorrorScope

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HALLOWEEN 2012 SPECIAL

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Strange Halloween Dictionary

Bobbing Apples: What happens when you leave your bra off while running.

Boogieman: Guy who passes time at a stoplight picking his nose.

Coffin: What you do when you get a piece of popcorn stuck in your throat.

Frankenstein: Hot dog and a mug of beer.

Full moon: What your repairman reveals when he bends over to fix your fridge.

Goblin: How you eat the Snickers bars you got for Halloween.

Invisible Man: What a guy becomes when there's housework to be done. Also, see "Mr. Hyde."

Jack O' Lantern: An Irish Pumpkin.

Jack the Ripper: What Jack does to his lottery tickets after losing each week.

Mummy: Who kisses the boo-boo after you scrape your knee.

Pumpkin Patch: What a pumpkin wears when trying to quit smoking.

Skeleton: Any supermodel.

Vampire Bat: What Dracula hits a baseball with.

Witch: See "Mother-in-Law."

Zombie: What you look like before that first cup of morning coffee.
Strange Halloween Quotes:

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween… -- Unknown

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
William Shakespeare, Witches in Macbeth

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - - Your Halloween HorrorScope

HORRORSCOPES

Ascaryus (Jan 20-Feb 18): This Halloween looks to be a scary one for you. But before you go around crying, "Ooooh, I want my mummy! I want my mummy!" think about this: You want more lovin', right? Well, if you run around like a scaredycat, you will, to quoth the raven, "Neverscore."

Pieces (Feb 19-Mar 20): Vampires are evil, hypnotic people who will emerge in the night and drain you. Sounds like someone I used to date. You need to be careful because you may have closed the metaphoric coffin lid on a relationship, only to find that this person will rise from the graveyard of your heart to worm their way back into your life. One word of advice from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer": A vampire can only come in if you invite them.

Scaries (Mar 21-Apr 19): You've got to pick up every stitch this Halloween because, unless I miss my guess, it must be the Season of the Witch. If only every holiday could be commemorated with a bad Donovan song. Wouldn't it be great, on Thanksgiving, to sit around the table, giving thanks for the bounty we are to receive by singing a rousing round of "Mellow Yellow"? That is truly the most horrifying thought you can be faced with this Halloween.

Tarot (Apr 20-May 20): Sure, you ladies have been looking for some lovin'. But you don't want to go for just any Tom Dick and Harry. And heaven forfend you go for any Jack you find, especially when that Jack is some hollow-headed grinning gap-toothed idiot. But then again, despite his weird exterior, if you look inside, you'll see a flame burning bright. This might be the season of the witch, but if you try not to act so witchy and look past the odd exterior, you'll find hidden depths in the ugliest places.

OnlyOneEye (May 21- Jun 20): Horror is in the eye of the beholder, whether that eye be bloodshot and yellow, peering at you from the shadows of the night, or whether the eye is a horrible dismembered giant radioactive eye. What is truly scary? A werewolf? A werewolf is not so much a horrible half-man half-beast as a chronic undershaver. A headless horseman is just the victim of a particularly bad hair day. In much the same way, you can find the brighter side of anything that comes your way, no matter how horrific or annoying.

Dancer (Jun 21-Jul 22): Scary is relative, and we don't just mean your crazy relatives who threaten to come visit for six weeks, but rather the idea that whereas a movie with monsters made out of cardboard boxes and paper mache may have been the scariest thing you'd ever seen when you were eight, it now looks like crap. You must get over your initial fears of a new project or relationship; although it seems insurmountable now, if you stick with it, you will eventually be able to overcome it.

Tao (Jul 23-Aug 22): Frankenstein's monster was, of course, made out of the parts of a couple dozen other people, which must have been hell when it came to custody hearings. Nothing's more awkward at a family reunion than having one-tenth of Cousin Harry show up at the buffet. You, too, feel like you're being pulled in twenty different directions, but you'll soon receive the jolt you'll need to get on your feet again.

Vertigo (Aug 23-Sep 22): Pity the poor skeleton who wanders around on Halloween, looking so unfashionable in all-white a full two months after Memorial Day. Of course, he can't help it, and he is actually successful in the love department; after all, he is "ribbed" for her pleasure. This week you'll find that you attract more flies with honey than even dead zombie flesh, and being inherently nice to the opposite sex will make them flock to you like vultures to a skeleton.

Webra (Sep 23-Oct 22): Zombies are pretty well-known for trying to suck the brains out of people's heads. As was every high school algebra teacher I ever had. Coincidence? Considering that those people were always pale on the point of being green, had trouble communicating more than moans and incoherent screams, and had awkward, stumbling walks down the hallway, I think it's lucky I escaped without some horrible "Night of the Living Dead scenario." You escape a horrific fate worse than death , if you can steer clear of boring people at parties.

Scareio (Oct 23-Nov 21): You think you're being slick, but the truth is that you're like a ghost; people can see through you, and all the noise you're making is more effective scaring small children and dogs than actually doing anything. It's time to leave your old haunts and take care of that grave matter that's all your vault.

Sekeltarious (Nov 22-Dec 21): Boo! Scared ya!

Capricandycorn (Dec 22-Jan 19): You're in the zone this week! The Twilight Zone, that is, and it's going to be a creepy thrill ride with an incredibly ironic twist at the end that serves as a commentary on our mixed-up Cold War nuclear society. Don't let the creepy situations you get yourself into this week get you skittish. Let them get you Skittles; why not go Trick-or-Treating? It's fun to dress up, get given stuff, and not have to give ten percent to a big guy named Huggy Bear. And Halloween candy doesn't count as calories!

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Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012

VOL 1159 - Oct 28, 2012 - Children's Strange Thoughts on the Sea

Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012

VOL 1158 - Oct 24, 2012 - Top 10 Strange Divorces

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Strange Quotes About Life's Little Mysteries:

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
--Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, December 2, 1976.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. - Carole Burnett

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery. - Mickey Dolenz, 1996

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on. - Ru Paul

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen. - Dolly Parton

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? - -Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - Top 10 Strange Divorces!

10 Divorce Stories you won't believe

The Man who divorced his wife for being 'too shy' to consummate their marriage... after a year!

A Tainan court granted a man's request for divorce because his wife was "too shy" to consummate their marriage, after a year! The man surnamed Chen, a 38-year-old teacher from Tainan County was introduced to a woman surnamed Lin, 29, also a teacher, by a matchmaker.

After the couple dated for three months, they got married, but Lin refused to consummate the marriage. On the wedding night, Lin slept fully dressed and wrapped with a quilt. When Chen tried to sleep with her she pushed him away shouting: "You are ridiculous!", and returned to her mother's home the day next.

Through the matchmaker's mediation, Lin signed a contract agreeing to consummate the marriage but only for the purpose of procreation, and demanded to sleep separately. However, she did not live up to the pledge, cause Chen filed for divorce. Lin contested the divorce, claiming that she refused to consummate the marriage on the wedding night because she was too tired and was ill. But the judge said it was strange for Lin to refuse to consummate the marriage for one year, so he granted the divorce and ruled that Lin must compensate Chen NT$300,000 for buying an apartment, giving Lin's family a dowry and losing face because she did not consummate the marriage.

The Woman who requested divorce because her husband tried to sneak one look at her face after 30 years of marriage.

A Saudi woman asked for divorce in 2008 because her husband tried to sneak one look at her face after 30 years of marriage. A Saudi Arabian man lived with his wife for 30 years without setting eyes on her face. His 50-year-old wife followed the tradition of her native village near the south-western city of Khamis Mushayt and kept her features veiled at all times.

One night the husband was overcome by curiosity and tried to lift his wife's veil as she slept to take a look at her face. It was an error he is unlikely to be given a chance to repeat for his outraged wife woke up during his sneak peek and decided to demand a divorce.

The betrayed wife said her husband apologized and promised never to do it again, but she insisted she wanted a divorce. It may seem odd, but cases of Saudi husbands with wives forever shrouded in mystery are not uncommon.

The Woman who got divorced after her parrot started repeating "Divorce" and "Be Patient."

In 2001, a Chinese woman launched divorce proceedings against her husband after the family's pet mynah bird reportedly spilled the beans on his marital indiscretions. According to the Xinmin Evening News, the woman first suspected something was amiss when the bird began repeating words apparently picked up from her husband's secret telephone calls to his lover after she returned from a month-long visit to her parents. She said words such as "divorce", "I love you", and "be patient" had become an increasingly frequent feature of the feathered telltale's idle twitterings.

She took her case -- along with the bird -- to a local law office for consultation, hoping it would testify in court against her husband; lawyers however told her they were not optimistic that the bird's testimony would sway the court. The wife filed for divorce but, for some bizarre reason, evidence from a bird was apparently not admissible in Chinese courts.

The 81-year-old husband who got caught with his mistress after 60 years

An 83-year-old German woman, divorced her 81-year-old husband after 60 years of marriage because he was caught having sex with his mistress at work. Georg Meister met his lover, 30 years younger, at work. The affair was exposed when they forgot to pull the curtains while having a 'quickie' in one of the center's offices. His wife Ruth who was told about her husband's antics threw him out of their home and he moved in with his younger lover who lives just two doors down the road. The divorce court heard the couple had met over 60 years ago as Allied bombs fell on Bonn and have since raised three children together.

The Wife who divorced her man for cleaning too much

In April 2009, a German woman divorced her husband because she was "fed up" with him cleaning everything all the time. The wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man's penchant for doing household chores, tidying up and rearranging the furniture, but she ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty.

The Husband who dumped his lady over lie about her age.

A woman surnamed Luo, who lied about her age, was dumped by her husband after 10 years of marriage in Shanglin County, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Luo, who was 30 when husband-to-be Cen asked her to marry him, told him she was just 24. In 2007, Cen filed for divorce after realizing he had been duped and the court granted his wish.

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Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2012

VOL 1157 - Oct 21, 2012 - 10 Strange Common Sayings - How They Originated

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Strange "Silly" Quotes:

Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.

Half the people you know are below average.

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - 10 Strange Common Sayings - How They Originated

Strange Common Saying - how they originated

1. Scot Free

Many people think that this saying refers to Scottish people being tight with money - hence something being free, but in fact the word "scot" is an old Norse word which means "payment" - specifically a payment made to a landlord or sheriff. So this phrase - while meaning what most people think it means, has no connection to the Scottish people - it just means to get off without having to pay.

2 Fit as a Fiddle

This is another phrase where a single word has confused people - "fit" in the context of this saying does not mean "healthy" which is a 19th century definition. Its original meaning was "suitable" - and it is still used in that context in the sentence "fit for a king". As fit as a fiddle means "as appropriate as can be" - not "in excellent health". The first use of the phrase, incidentally, was in the 16th century and it was originally "as right as a fiddle".

3 Another Thing Coming

Common Saying: If you think that, you have another thing coming

This is a complete aberration of the original phrase because of the sound of English. The correct phrase is "if you think that, you have another think coming" - in other words, "what you think is wrong so think again". Because the "k" in "think" often ends up silent when saying "think coming" people have changed the phrase over time. Of course, "another thing coming" makes no sense at all. To illustrate how global this error is, when you google "another thing coming" it returns 139,000 results; when you google "another think coming" it returns a mere 39,000 results.

4 Eat Humble Pie

This phrase means "to be humble in apologizing for something." I was slightly reluctant to put it on the list because it actually does mean what people think it means, but there is still a misconception here; people think that this phrase means to eat a pie made of humbleness but it actually means to eat a pie made with umble (pictured above). Umble is an old English word for offal - the bits of the animal seldom eaten today (sadly). It was a pie that was normally eaten by the poor as the finer cuts of meat were left for the rich only. "To eat a humble pie" is an example of metanalysis (words being broken down into parts or meanings that differ from the original) as it sounds just like "to eat an umble pie". Other examples of this in English are "an apron" which used to be "a napron".

5 Rule of Thumb

People commonly think that this saying is a reference to a law allowing a man to beat his wife as long as he uses a rod no thicker than his thumb. It is, of course, completely untrue. There is no record of any judge in Britain ever making a ruling like this - or any lawmaker passing a law. The phrase actually refers to doing something by estimates - rather than using an exact measure.

6 On Tender Hooks

This phrase is very commonly misspelt. First off, what exactly is a tender hook? It doesn't seem logical does it? Well - that is because it isn't. The phrase is actually "on tenterhooks". A tenter was a medieval tool used for making cloth - the tenterhooks (pictured above) were small hooks to which the fabric would be stretched in the manufacturing process. To be on tenterhooks means to be left hanging - or to be in a state of suspense.

7 Take a Raincheck

This phrase is usually meant to mean "I won't do it now but I will later". This is the commonly accepted meaning (and has been for a long time) so it is now considered to be correct. It is included here merely out of interest because its original meaning was slightly different. Initially, a raincheck was offered to people who had tickets to a baseball game that was rained out - they would offered a "raincheck" which was a ticket for a game at a later date to make up for the missed game. This eventually found its way into shopping jargon in general where a raincheck was an offer to sell an out-of-stock good when it arrived back in stock. The meaning has eventually broadened to a point that it is not an offer any longer but a response.

8 Free Reign

This is a spelling error that leads to a misunderstanding - though the meanings remain the same fundamentally. Many people presume this phrase to mean that a person given free reign, has the "royal" power to do anything they want. In fact, the correct phrase is "free rein" and it comes from the days before cars when horses were used as our main mode of transport. When navigating a steep or winding path, one would relax the reins so that the horse could pick the safest path as he was more likely to do a better job than the rider.

9 Wreck Havoc

Havoc means chaos - and to wreck something is to put it into a state of chaos. So why would you make chaos out of chaos? You wouldn't. What you might do is wreak havoc though - because "to wreak" means "to cause to happen". The two words are pronounced differently - wreck sounds like "rek" while "wreak" sounds like "reek". It is a small - but common, error.

10. Beg the Question

Let's face it - 99% of people reading this list will not know the correct meaning of "beg the question", but that implies that the mistaken meaning should really be considered correct through common usage - so let us not fight about right or wrong - I will just state the facts: "to beg the question" does not mean "to raise the question". Originally the phrase was "to begge the question" and it appeared in English around the 1580s. It is a reference to a question (or phrase) which implies the truth of the thing it is trying to prove. Confusing? Okay - here is an example: "why does England have fewer trees per acre than any other country in Europe?" This is a "begged question" - the person asking is implying that England has fewer trees - when in fact, it may not. Another example is "he must be telling the truth because he never lies". Decartes was begging the question when he said "I think, therefore I am". Oh - and for those of you who are used to using the term in the wrong
way, consider using "prompt the question" as a correct alternative.

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* AMAZON - Dean Gaffney face-clock
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Other than making sweet, sweet semen

>> Guardian Truncation Team <<
"Wotcha," greets commuter Nick. "I made a thing,
collecting 'funny' shortenings of headlines on
the Guardian iPhone app. It stops me screaming
point-blank into businessmen's faces at the
horror of it all."
http://guardiantruncationteam.tumblr.com

>> Bird Song <<
"The video for a song we made live on YouTube
one time," explains Weebl, cryptically. As well
he might, since he's currently toiling at the
bottom of a lol-mine, creating hours and hours
of top-notch animation for a secret future
project.
http://b3ta.com/links/Bird_Song

>> Surprise <<
"I did some more drawn animation," is all we
have from Faceburger. But we like surprises:
http://b3ta.com/links/Surprise:7

>> Ed and Dave uncut <<
"Some bits of the conference speeches you may
have missed," claims merkinhead. Amazing how
unrealistic David Cameron looks; even when he's
not computer-generated, to be honest.
http://b3ta.com/links/Ed_and_Dave_uncut

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: AMAZON TAT
Crap products & stupid reviews la la la

>> Dean Gaffney face-clock <<
It's hard to decide which is better; this,
frankly amazing, item itself or the stunningly
creative reviews that it's spawned by its very
existence.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003BRGUR6/b3ta-21

>> 'Touched' by a paedophile <<
Wildly appropriate autobiography of American
football coach Jerry Sandusky, who later turned
out to be the US equivalent of all this Jimmy
Savile stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1582613575/b3ta-20

>> Laxative choc <<
Cautionary tale from the Amazon vaults. Just out
of interest, why is so much laxative stuff
chocolate? Surely that's the last thing you'd
want to put in your mouth while thinking about
faeces.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R1HWKTZCIT43DS/b3ta-21

>> 'Party suicide' <<
Recreate the Deer Hunter at your celebratory
event, with this 'fun' twist on Russian
Roulette. For added lols, put the gun in your
mouth when you pull the trigger.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003ARQFZY/b3ta-20

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: QUESTION OF THE WEEK
The Best Thing You Made

Last week we asked for the best thing you'd
ever made. There's some great photos of things
(sheds even) to look at here:
http://b3ta.com/questions/bestthingivebuilt

* SPEAKERS - "My first car was an XR2. Excited,
I decided to improve the sound. Fortunately it
already had a radio cassette player, but only
two speakers in the rear parcel shelf. I bought
2 very large speakers, marked and cut the holes
in the door cards, and put them in. They were
around knee level, and improved the sound
immensely. The I tried to open the window,
which went down about an inch and a half before
hitting the speaker." (username failed moderation)

* COKE - "At the age of 12, my brother suddenly
became very secretive, often locking himself in
his bedroom for hours at a time. Were I older,
I'd probably have assumed he'd discovered wanking.
Curiously, his desire for cans of coke increased
greatly. Then, my best red nail varnish disappeared.
It was all very strange. After 6 months, all was
revealed when my brother unveiled the model of a
Lamborghini Diabolo he'd built from metal snipped
from coke cans and painted pillar-box red with my
nail polish. It was beautiful, a true work of art,
lovingly crafted by a young boy who should be
rightly proud of his work. The twat binned it
two days later because he was bored with it."
(Smash Monkey)

* PEAMATIC - "A school craze for pea-shooters
(well, spit-ball shooters really) was in full
swing. But point, shoot, repeat seemed a little
pedestrian to me; clearly I needed More Power.
So I built a machine-pea-shooter: a ten-shot
repeater, something like a mini-gun, with ten
barrels and a sliding mouthpiece. I could shoot
one at a time, or unleash a deadly hail of
spit-balls at my cowering victims. My playground
triumph was short lived, as a) it took about
five minutes to re-load, and b) I got beaten
up for being a smart-arse." (moon monkey)

>> This Week - TROUBLE <<
Ever dropped somebody in the shit? Ever been the
one in the shit? Whether by accident for through
being a terrible snitchy grass, tell us all here:
http://b3ta.com/questions/Gettingothersintotrouble/

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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates

>> Life hacks to make your life easier <<
99 suggestions which fall somewhere been genius
and OCD compulsively-hoarding hobo. Also please
ignore the one that says filter your emails on
the word "unsubscribe" as it'll break the B3ta
newsletter and any other email lists you use.
Hee hee. Email lists. We're so 90s.
http://bit.ly/PeX5l4

>> Jesus. Seriously. Fuck off. <<
Apparently Jesus is an annoying asshole who
fucks people up. Can somebody make this into a
movie please? Like Bad Santa? Bad Christ?
http://imgur.com/a/TnkRq?1

>> You don't 'fucking love' science <<
The best thing Maddox has posted in a good while
- complaining about the people who profess to be
nerds, just because they bought some glasses and
clicked "I like science" on Friendsreunited.
http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=youre_not_a_nerd

>> Security reactions Tumblr <<
Do you have to worry about computer security as
part of your work? Do you like animated gifs?
http://securityreactions.tumblr.com/

>> Full-screen phishing attack <<
A white-hatted proof-of-concept attack. Frankly,
we're reaching a point where fuck knows what is
real - but that might be to do with the large
amounts of LSD we took before starting this
sentence. Oooh look, our fingers are spongey and
wow this keyboard lights up when you press the
buttons... We feel like a tiny Michael Jackson
in Billie Jean.
http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/

>> Clothes on film (got your picture) <<
Curious about the clothes actors wear in movies?
Matt Round writes, "Found this site interesting
even though I have no interest in fashion."
http://bit.ly/PeX6p9

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Filmed on your Windows Phone for megalolz

>> Gabba Pingu Remix <<
It is what it is. Thought-provoking that,
thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we
can now all be The Prodigy circa 1991. Catchy
though. Very catchy.
http://www.pown.it/3496

>> Periods: the truth <<
Some guy wrote on a tampon company's Facebook
page that their adverts lie and that his
girlfriend's menstrual cycle is not one big
rollerskate and skydiving party. The company
responds:
http://b3ta.com/links/Wooooooaaaahhhh_Bodyform

>> Train simulator, bitch! <<
Model railway swag overload. NSFW but #YOLO.
http://b3ta.com/links/Train_simulator_bitch

>> Dog gets ready <<
Sleepy dog sets up for a busy day of dogginess.
http://b3ta.com/links/Just_a_dog_getting_ready_for_his_day

>> Schrodinger's Cat does not like boxes <<
Cute animation takes a disturbingly abrupt
left-turn into Akira-ville.
http://bit.ly/PeXcx5

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: FUNNY NAME CORNER
Please change the law and make assisted suicide
legal as we can't take the pain any longer

* CAT-SHIT OR COCK-SHIT? Pielands writes, "My
cat took a dump on the floor (as opposed to in
the box, as we had agreed). It had not been
manipulated in any way. Is he trying to tell me
something?" Yes, he's telling you he wants anal
penetration from your cock. It's what all cats
want.
http://imgur.com/3Oc8F

* THE NAME 'GAYLORD' - STILL FUNNY? The preserve
of playground humour since 1973, the name
Gaylord is startling, as it suggests a heraldic,
honours society based upon bot-bot fun.
http://www.dioceseofgaylord.org

* YOUR NEW FAVOURITE CHEMICAL COMPOUND IS -
'(Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2' - Google it, then sing the
Chicken Tonight jingle in your head.

* BLOKE SHOULD GET A NEW JOB - he'd be much
better as a professional pubic hair trimmer.
There's probably a job title for that but we're
busy people with no time for such frippery.
http://bit.ly/S1cYYL

* OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO COULD SHORTEN THEIR NAME
TO DICK - Richard Fiddler shouldn't have.
http://bit.ly/PeXfsB

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: FRIDAY GAMES
13k HTML5 games

Challenge web designers to make canvas-based
games in less than 13k of code (that's about
enough space to store 2,500 words of the play
Hamlet) and what do you get? Stuff that makes us
think the world is full of very clever people.
http://js13kgames.com/

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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from the Torture Challenge

Last week we wanted you devise fiendish
torture devices

Your favourites included:

* CHALK: Screeeeaaagh! The world's most
unpleasant noise, again and again and again and
again and again and again and again and...
(HappyToast)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10861191

* KYLE: Leia Organa of Alderaan gets subjected
to something far, far worse than water-boarding
(The Twisted Omentum)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10861898

* TUB: spectacular fountain of effluence horror
cartoon (HappyToast)
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10861502

All these images, and the highest as voted by
you can be found here:
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/torture/

>> New challenge: Trees <<
One word challenge: Trees — they're just sitting
there, all made out of wood and looking
sinister. Biding their time. Show us what
they're planning.
http://www.b3ta.com/challenge/trees/

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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.

* THE MANY LAYERS OF CYRIAK - "I was curious to
see how many After Effects layers I used in a
single scene of one of my videos," begins
Cyriak. Good God. Here's an insight into just
how involved those animations are:
http://cyriak.co.uk/blog/?page_id=333

* HEARING-IMPAIRED MEMBER GETS ROBOT EARS -
helmsdeep writes, "A while back you pimped my
blog about seeing my baby son for the first
time. Now, 9 months later I'm going back into
hospital for a very different procedure - having
a cochlear implant. It's still a relatively rare
procedure but might be of interest, as
technically it makes me a cyborg, and cyborgs
are cool."
http://wlmager.com/what-does-a-cochlear-implant-sound-like/

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: STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE

Make something cool and tell us about it. If
you are in it then people will see your stuff.

Things we'd really like to see include

* CAMPAIGN FOR STANDARDISED KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS -
sites like twitter and gmail allow "power users"
to navigate via keyboard - press ? to see list
of commands - we need a campaign for univ
keyb shortcuts across webs - hard to learn
when they are all diff.

* CAMERON SHOE-BOT - a twitter bot that, every
time Cameron posts, asks him for a photo with a
shoe on his head. Makes a change from all the
abuse asking him to die anyway.

* EBOOK READERS WITH E-INK COVERS - so that you
could advertise what book you're reading. Might
sound silly but book covers are (were?) a
conversation starter. Might stop complaints
that, "your nose is always in tech" - people
might realise you're reading clever books rather
than flicking distractedly at social media.

Send contributions via the mail form.
http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/

BTW: If you've sent something in that hasn't
been featured then don't be put off - we look
at everything you send us.

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This issue was written by *hiding* with David
Stevenson. Stuff sent in by maf, gkaye, Paul
Curry, Matt "WE LOVE YOU" Round, Isaac Mangang,
robneymcplum, i.caple, c_kick, gronkpan, thebao,
R. Jimlad, Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver,
slartifartfast, ethylmethanoate, kptkiwi. Image
challenge by Fraser Lewry. Mike Trinder is QOTW
bloke. Subjlols via Gruffi Savalas.

If music be the food of love do individual tunes
correlate to specific sexy meals? Say Duran
Duran's Rio is feeding your lover sauerkraut?

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TOP TIP:
If you find new music a bit annoying as it's
made by people 20 years younger than you,
explore the music that you avoided as being a
bit naff when you were young and cool. Er... we
now sort of like Sade now. Oh, and George
Michael. Sorry.

TOP TIP 2:
When your toilet is blocked don't call a plumber
- try a £2.50 plunger and a wire coat hanger.
Obvious really, but saved us over £40 this
morning - and we scored "brownie points" (ho ho)
with our lovely partner.

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VOL 1156 - Oct 17, 2012 - The True Meaning of the Word 'Service!'

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VOL 1155 - Oct 14, 2012 - Strange 'Bad' Analogies Contest

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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." - Janis Joplin

"Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity." - Nick Diamos

"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers." - Tom Stoppard

"Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon." - Jilly Cooper

"Never purchase beauty products in a hardware store." - Miss Piggy

"Own a shirt that has been "bedazzled"

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Bad Analogies

From the Washington Post, July 23, 1995

People were asked to come up with bad analogies. The results were great, though we feel compelled to point out that there is a fine line between an analogy that is so bad it is good and an analogy that is so good it is bad. See what we mean.

4th Runner-Up:

Oooo, he smells bad, she thought, as bad as Calvin Klein's Obsession would smell if it were called Enema and was made from spoiled Spamburgers instead of natural floral fragrances. (Jennifer Frank, Washington, and Jimmy Pontzer, Sterling)

3rd Runner-Up:

The baseball player stepped out of the box and spit like a fountain statue of a Greek god that scratches itself a lot and spits brown, rusty tobacco water and refuses to sign autographs for all the little Greek kids unless they pay him lots of drachmas. (Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills)

2nd Runner-Up:

I felt a nameless dread. Well, there probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or something, but I don't speak German. Anyway, it's a dread that nobody knows the name for, like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don't know the name for those either. (Jack Bross, Chevy Chase)

1st Runner-Up:

She was as unhappy as when someone puts your cake out in the rain, and all the sweet green icing flows down and then you lose the recipe, and on top of that you can't sing worth a damn. (Joseph Romm, Washington)

And the winner of the framed Scarlet Fever sign:

His fountain pen was so expensive it looked as if someone had grabbed the pope, turned him upside down and started writing with the tip of his big pointy hat. (Jeffrey Carl, Richmond)

Honorable Mentions:

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. (Jack Bross, Chevy Chase)

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. (Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring)

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can. (Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.)

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. (Joseph Romm, Washington)

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again. (Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station)

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. (Russell Beland, Springfield)

McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup. (Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring)

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30. (Roy Ashley, Washington)

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. (Russell Beland, Springfield)

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