Today's featured article
Begging the question is a popular but difficult way of persuading interrogative statements to grant favors. Although many people have attempted to shake down questions for cash, gifts and other benefits, the questions make the following tacit assumption:
- Only someone who does not need my money would ask me for it.
- The fact you are asking me for money is proof of this.
Many people use the phrase "begging the question" interchangeably with "raising (money from) the question," but the two are very different. Panhandling the question assumes you will get a quarter from "Where is the library?" by merely asking the query for change for the bus. But raising money from philanthropists like "What's that smell?" and "Can't you read?" is an elaborate and tricky affair that relies on observing a question over several weeks before raising money from it. (more...)
Yesterday's featured article
This blog was the sole artifact salvaged from the remains of The Milky Way Fighter Jet 001 on December 18, A.D. 2101... Yes, in the future, people actually have to write blogs on paper. Isn't that cool?
Hello, diary. You will be my new best friend. My name is Captain. I am not really a captain, but my father named me as such, because he said it builds character. I think he just like to insult me for not being real captain, which he never got to be either. At least he didn't name me "Prostitute" as he did my sister. She get much attention from the urban hipsters, if you catch my drifting. Today is a very happy occasion. I am about to be graduate from college. It was very hard, but I did. It. I graduate at top of class for English grammer, and will maybe even be writer of the sequal to the Bible. But nobody told me for sure yet. So, the day is very happy. We get big party, and Mother gave me you, the diary, to write in the things of my occuring. But Father telled me that it was very homo-sapian-sexual to write in diary, so I now call you blog in front of him. I do not wish to be mistaken for those that walk with their tails in their thighs, as the saying goes. I am very excite now because about to be leave in the vehicle on way to festivities... I shall see you later. (more...)
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Did you know...
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- ...that, because of the startling success of Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky decided to follow it with a sequel that became known as Law and Order?
- ...that language is believed to have first been discovered around 45,000,000 BC when, moving rocks from one big pile of rocks to another large pile of rocks, an unnamed caveman dropped a rock on his foot and uttered the pivotal first word: “Moog”? Modern scholars have extensively studied this word and, going through all root languages, cite the modern translation of “Moog” to be “Fuck, my toe!”
- ...that this website may contain words, or traces of words?
- ...that the GI Joe-Transformers War took place in 1988, and resulted in the Autobots/Joe Alliance (AJA) gaining control over the Union of Decepticon and Cobra Forces' (UDCF) strongholds in the Bedroom and Backyard theatres?
- ...that the dolphin is the only animal other than man that laughs at its own farts?
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In the news
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- The United States is in a state of panic over the Ladies' Home Journal's shocking caricature of Obama.
- Uh... Dude? You kind of, well... are in my way.
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On this day...
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August 28: International Horniness Day.
- 2,000,000 BC - Homo flaccidus has a hard time getting a date.
- 1,000,000 BC - Homo erectus gets horny and manages to get his own boner without assistance.
- 100,000 BC - Homo erectus finally loses its erection and becomes sapiens.
- 900,000 BC - Adam and Eve become horny.
- 33 - Jesus horny for the last time.
- 489 - Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer, King of Cers the at the Battle of Iseeyourgonzoandraiseyouaspliff.
- 1542 - Sion Corn Discovers horny milk in West Wales,UK. Burned at Stake for Heresy.
- 1845 - The first issue of Unscientific Horny American is published. The centerfold (which features a different Nobel-Prize-winning scientist each month) proves unpopular, and is discontinued almost immediately.
- 1941 - Miso Horny named Japan's National Soup.
- 1942 - Teddy Roosevelt horny in Jacksonville, Florida. He was then arrested.
- 1987 - Me gets so horny for you.
- 1988 - In Soviet Russia, horny gets so you for me.
- 2010 - Giant Horny Cheese invades earth and takes Hailers Hostage.
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Richard M. Nixon
Help us clear the ivy of crap,
and plant the seeds of humour.
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