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Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else

Side effects of the credit crunch?

My Name is Ms. Lolly Stevens, the eldest child/daughter Of late Mr. Chico Stevens and I am 31 years old.My father was a big time farmer in South Wales, he uses most of South Wales farm land for farming.

My father was very successful/wealthy Business Farmer. Some years ago, a drastic riot broke out in our community and my father's farm was invaded by the angry prostesters. My father was at his farm that day and trying to rescue his farm, he was brutally beaten up by those people, his farm was set on fire.He was rushed to the hospital by his workers but he did not make it, he had severe internal bleeding.Before his death he transfered most of his fund to a Security company in Holland.

He gave me the contact Information to the Security company which the fund is located. We had to move out of our community immediately because of safety purpose, we lived in my fathers ranch but everything were burnt, vandalised and destroyed.I contacted the Security company yesterday on how I could collect the funds with my lawyer assistance and they told me that I need a foreign beneficiary outside United Kingdom because of Security reasons.

And I don’t have anyone outside the UK that will stand for me as a beneficiary. They said they are holding (TWENTY MILLION USDOLLARS) for my father.The funds have been deposited there for four years now and it has accumulated charges which I must pay before the consignment will be released.All my father properties were destroyed and we fled with nothing.Please assist me and my family in claiming the funds from the security company. My family and I shall/will reinburse you in double of any amount of money you spent in helping us,when you receive the total sum from the security company in Holland.

I didn't realise conditions in South Wales had deteriorated so quickly.

spEak You’re bRanes

From the wonderful spEak You’re bRanes.

Why was this ‘built’ underground? Simple, it does not exist. It’s a big con. It’s the same reason India/Pakistan allegedly conducted nuclear explosions underground simply because they never happened in the first place. Why? Because nuclear bombs don’t exist and they never have existed. FACT! Hollywood and the people behind Hollywood (the rich elite race) came up with the propoganda to fool the ‘Sheople’. They’ll keep taking your money though to fund their lavish lifestyles.

Philip Coalman

Everything “built” underground is a lie, it’s true. The Bakerloo, Central and Northern lines are all ficticious and water is brought to your taps by Enchanted Cats (with buckets). Don’t ever dig a hole deeper than 9 foot, in case you break through into Shangri-La and Madame Blavatsky curses you to only ever spout bollocks. Believe me, I know.

Funny I know, but not a lot worse than the conspiracy cobblers you can find buried in the comments (and often in the posts) at sites like this and this.

Overheard

Drunk girl screaming: No one here cares about any of the issues. None of you are from here. That just makes me sick, none of you are fucking from here.

Bus driver over PA: Sweetie, unless your name is Pocahontas, you're not from here either.

NJ Transit Bus

Unicorns in the Garden

An elegant and viciously polite smack down of an whining, whingeing and ignorant proponent of so-called 'Intelligent Design' (Not much intelligence in its proponents from this exchange...)

An example of the brilliance that is Professor Lenski:

It is my impression that you seem to think we have only paper and electronic records of having seen some unusual E. coli. If we made serious errors or misrepresentations, you would surely like to find them in those records. If we did not, then - as some of your acolytes have suggested - you might assert that our records are themselves untrustworthy because, well, because you said so, I guess. But perhaps because you did not bother even to read our paper, or perhaps because you aren't very bright, you seem not to understand that we have the actual, living bacteria that exhibit the properties reported in our paper, including both the ancestral strain used to start this long-term experiment and its evolved citrate-using descendants. In other words, it's not that we claim to have glimpsed "a unicorn in the garden" - we have a whole population of them living in my lab! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_in_the_Garden] And lest you accuse me further of fraud, I do not literally mean that we have unicorns in the lab. Rather, I am making a literary allusion. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion]

Another, slightly less entertaining, but equally stupid example here, in which the particular lawyer (that explains a lot) failed to understand a particular scientific paper because, apparently, "he thought ‘eponymous’ was the name of a particular class of bones."

[Via Crooked Timber and the comments]

These are not the donuts you are looking for...

From Boing Boing via Samizdata

However, see also this. Such idiocy makes me think of the comment a friend wrote on my leaving card when departing from am particularly odious employer:

"I feel much better now that I've given up hope"

Remixing the London police's anti-photographer terrror posters

fascism, originally uploaded by illegalphotos.

Responding to the London Metropolitan Police's new anti-photographer snitch campaign, wherein posters urge Londoners to turn in people who might be taking pictures of CCTV cameras, many people have taken a crack at redesigning the posters to point out the absurdity of them.

via Brenda and Boingboing

Funny stories

When I make a joke, it doesn't harm anyone; you can take it or leave it. But when Congress makes a joke, it's a law.

Will Rogers (attrib)

...and in the same vein:-

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

[Idiotic] Quote of the Day Decade

[‘Renewable resources’] are not renewable… Taking energy from winds and tides irreversibly enervates the weather system and slows the rotation of the Earth

Steve Reed (Chairman, UKIP Wells and Weston-super-Mare branch) in Yorkshire Post, 5 August 2004 (via Richard Corbett MEP)

Would you believe human tetris?

human tetris