WARNING: Major comic book geekery ahead.
I’m a fan of Infinite Crisis, a revolutionary comic book event that’s currently going on in the D.C. Universe. I’ve been wondering what will happen to the “Golden Age” Superman, and I found this theory by a guy named “PatrickG” on a message board. It’d make a helluva [...]
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Wikipedia: Chuck Cunningham syndrome
Funny little recounting of most of the instances in pop culture where characters disappear or appear without warning or explanation.
(tags: funny television interesting reading)
Wikipedia: Bush transfer of power
“The Bush transfer of power occurred on the morning of June 29, 2002, when President George W. Bush temporarily transferred the powers of the office [...]
Wikipedia: Timeline skew theories for The West Wing
Where did “The West Wing” skew off from our universe? Interesting reading.
(tags: reading tv cool politics)
Wikipedia: List of retcons
“In the sitcom Cheers, Frasier Crane said that his father was a deceased research scientist. However, the spin-off Frasier featured Frasier’s father Martin as an ex-cop living in Seattle. [...]
Girl, 5, Forced To Apologize For Hugging Classmate
“A family in Maynard is outraged after their 5-year-old daughter was forced to write a letter denouncing hugging after a classmate embraced her.”
(tags: interesting weird)
2000 Personal Account: One Cool Dude
“I woke up the next morning connected to beeping machines. It turns out that, in accordance with popular belief, [...]
CTA tattler: A good day to use CTA Alerts system
“Then this happy one came at 6:59 a.m. from ChicagoPoe: ‘Normal red line routing restored.’ Whoo hoo!” (Glad to be the one to give you the good news!)
(tags: chicago subway cool funny)
Cabel Sasser on Boot Camp
“Wait — what am I saying? It’s Windows, running [...]
Just caught the episode “Dave” from last night’s episode of Lost. I couldn’t stop laughing my ass off when Hurley beats the shit out of Sawyer, finally!
Sawyer finally pisses off Hurley. Big mistake.
Dude, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
Sawyer, comically scrabbling for something tohold onto, finds nothing and gets draggedunder the tarp [...]
An American today stood up, took the mike, and despite the alarmed moos of the audience around him, looked the President right in the eye and told him off.
HARRY TAYLOR: You never stop talking about freedom, and I appreciate that. But while I listen to you talk about freedom, I see you assert your right [...]
SNAKES! On a WIKIPEDIA!
(tags: funny movies)
waiterrant.net » Sexism
“I’d leave a tip but I can’t afford you.”
(tags: dumbass interesting reading nyc)
This man spent months Photoshopping something to make it look entirely … real? I’m not sure I get this.
(tags: chicago subway weird photos)
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The strange case of the man [...]
My mind usually is a real racer. I’m a stream-of-consciousness thinker, and usually, as the stream burbles along in my head, little tasks float to the top of my head, and I think, “Oh, we can’t forget to get that and we can’t forget to do this.” Very often, those items come to [...]
Sim City Katrina New Orleans
Oh, this is so fucking awful! But funny in that fucking-awful-way.
(tags: funny horrible images games)
Boing Boing: A moment in time: 01:02:03 04/05/06.
“This Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.”
(tags: interesting weird)
Pictures I Like For A Variety Of [...]
Jet Lag Advisor
(tags: reference useful)
Wikipedia: The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis
(tags: interesting reading tv funny weird geekery)
The Citizen Scientist: Meeting Doctor Doom
According to this article, Dr. Eric R. Pianka evidently believes that an airborne version of the Ebola virus needs to be released in order to exterminate 90% of the population of Earth in order to [...]
Heh. Since when have you had this much enthusiasm for something?
Either Nintendo is brilliant and released this onto the ‘Net themselves, or they should take credit for doing so.
QDB: Quote #630686
“I feel like my life is a movie. But it’s being shown on TV. So all the sex scenes are cut.”
(tags: funny)
Interesting footage of police dispersing an anarchist protest. I’m actually not sure how I feel on this one.
(tags: video politics interesting)
Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes Of All Time
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