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Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 11th December 2006:
 
Hula Skirt and Singing Skulls!

gotta love that Midnight Ukelele Disco treat

i wonder if the singing gets high-pitched when she gets cold and the back of the skulls' throats gets a little blocked?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th December 2006:
 
Highly nifty Japanese Drum Machine sorta animation thing
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th December 2006:
 
Strangely compelling video of a wedding dance:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7o...
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th December 2006:
 
Actual discoveries by home inspectors:



Posted by WarHead, around 12th December 2006:
 
Britney at her best. N.B. Not the infamous Britney Sex tape supposedly in the possession of K-Fed.
Posted by WarHead, around 16th December 2006:
 
From overheardintheoffice

Nurse: The patient in Room 39* requested a visit from a Mormon priest.

Chaplain: Really? I'll have to call one, give me a moment. [Opens notebook] Ah, here we go. [Dials phone, waits] Hi, this is Chaplain Smith* at the hospital. I'm calling about a patient who would like a visit from a Mormon clergy-person. I haven't visited with the patient, so I don't know if he is a member of your congregation, but he did specifically request a visit from a Mormon. Feel free to call me back at 555-3418* when you get this message. Thanks. [Hangs up] Well, I left a message on their voicemail. I wonder if the Jehovah's Witnesses check their messages often.

Nurse: Jehovah's Witnesses...?

Chaplain: Oh, shit! I called the wrong church!
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 18th December 2006:
 
We implement a prototype surveillance system that can track people wearing Nike+iPod sensors, plotting their location on a GoogleMaps-based website and emailing and text-messaging real-time surveillance data to an attacker.
Posted by WarHead, around 18th December 2006:
 
Thud!

They should be prosecuted if they've allowed their prototype to email data to an attacker. And how did they find the attacker in the first place? I think we should be told.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 19th December 2006:
 
heh

"Microsoft convened a small group of bloggers today at their Redmond headquarters to discuss the upcoming Mix Conference in Las Vegas. Highlights of the day included:
...
* Seeing the look on Gates’ face when he walked into the room and every single one of us had a Mac open on the desk in front of us - Niall Kennedy had also set up a makeshift wifi network using an Airport"
Posted by WarHead, around 20th December 2006:
 
Internet addictions

PARIS (AFP) - The Internet has given birth to a quirky range of modern addictions and maladies, the British weekly New Scientist says in its Christmas issue published this Saturday.

They include these:

- EGO-SURFING: When you frequently check your name and reputation on the Internet.

- BLOG STREAKING: "Revealing secrets or personal information online which for everybody's sake would be best kept private."

- CRACKBERRY: "The curse of the modern executive: not being able to stop checking your BlackBerry, even at your grandmother's funeral." (A BlackBerry is a popular handheld device that can be used for phoning, emailing and web-browsing).

- GOOGLE-STALKING: Defined as "snooping online on old friends, colleagues or first dates."

- CYBERCHONDRIA: "A headache and a particular rash at the same time? Extensive online research tells you it must be cancer."

- PHOTOLURKING: Flicking through a photo album of someone you've never met.

- WIKIPEDIHOLISM: Excess devotion to contributing to the online collaborative encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. (Wikipedia even has a page where you can test whether you're an addict: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Are-You-a-Wikipediholic-Test)).

- CHEESEPODDING: Downloading of a song "so cheesy that you could cover it in plastic wrap and sell it at the deli counter." Cheesepodders are especially vulnerable to soft-rock favourites from the 1970s.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 20th December 2006:
 
I have all of these except Wikipediholism and Cheesepodding. :(
Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 20th December 2006:
 
I don't have time for any of these
I am addicted to caring for my savages, but that's it i think.

I am generally very chuffed that our internet was all good on sunday after we moved house on saturday. It took a few phonecalls but yay tiscali
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 20th December 2006:
 
my dealings with Tiscali:

T: hey, have lots of speed and unlimited download
Me: thanks!
T: Oh no, that's too much downloading!
Me: WTF? Ok so I'll cut down
T: No really, stop it or we will limit your "unlimited" service
Me: OK
T: Your service is now limited, good luck getting connected between 6pm and 11 every evening.
Me: :(
T: :D
Posted by frankie_DUPE1, around 20th December 2006:
 
oh no, tiscali just bought homechoice, oh well, we'll see if there's a change in the quality of service.. the tv has started glitching when we're downloading lots of stuff (obviously paid for things like music from itunes and the like, of course), but usually they're very good.
Posted by WarHead, around 29th December 2006:
 
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!

Three scallywags tried to break into my neighbour's house at 3:10am yesterday by attacking his front door with a brick. The fuzz think they were after his car keys, as he has a souped-up Audi on his drive. Luckily they (the scallywags, not the fuzz) were unable to get through the door and after he remonstrated with them, and threw a blunt/heavy object at them, they fled in their silver Vauxhall.

Mrs WH and I didn't hear a thing until the emergency glazier arrived at about 5:30 to board up the damaged door.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 29th December 2006:
 
Oh shit warhead. He ought to build a garage for his car so they can't see it from the street. Sometimes I feel safer that I have a beat up old SKEDONK.
Posted by WarHead, around 29th December 2006:
 
He's got a very nice garage, but his drive is quite narrow and it would be difficult to get to it, plus, it's full of 'stuff' that there's no room for in the house.

What he needs to do is get a car that no one in their right mind wants to steal, like mine.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 31st December 2006:
 
Yeah. My anti-hijacking technique is to leave the dings in my car.
Posted by WarHead, 2nd January 2007:
 
Is that Mr and Mrs Ding?
Posted by syl_DUPE1, 2nd January 2007:
 
hahaha! Doze chinee ladee velly scelly!
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 9th January 2007:
 
Ped Xing -- another famous non-driving chinaman
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, 9th January 2007:
 
A South Aeyfrican taking the piss out of someone's accent? :)
Posted by WarHead, 12th January 2007:
 
From overheardinnewyork.com

Guy #1: Dude, are you okay? You look exhausted.
Guy #2: I am. My life is so weird right now.
Guy #1: Still working on the divorce?
Guy #2: That's pretty much finalized, actually. It's this girl I started seeing last week.
Guy #1: Wait, you're dating that hot Russian chick?
Guy #2: Yeah, Svetlana. She's a total nympho -- I haven't slept in days. She won't leave my crotch alone. Plus, whenever we're going at it she keeps calling me 'Master.' It's fucked up.
Guy #1: You just lost any chance at sympathy, asshole.
Posted by scrybl, 12th January 2007:
 
HEY CAL!
amelie-guy
Posted by scrybl, 12th January 2007:
 
Apparently we say "Seth Efrika"
Posted by Grim..., 12th January 2007:
 
You do. So?
Posted by scrybl, 12th January 2007:
 
Is our accent really that bad?
Posted by Grim..., 12th January 2007:
 
Yes.
Posted by Sul_DUPE1, 12th January 2007:
 
Yes.
Posted by mmnicholl, 12th January 2007:
 
Scary boxes.

Amazing camoflage. [WARNING: Contents contains cephalapod.]

Good (RD) versus Evil (TH).

Great great great bigfoot prank.
Posted by scrybl, 12th January 2007:
 
Oh dear.
*fakes an American/British/French one*
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 15th January 2007:
 
anyone else notice the key giveaway on that last one? ie, that everyone on it is acting and that it's not part of the "prankster"style show? or that if it is, the whole thing is scripted/a setup done in a studio?

hint: brock should see it
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 15th January 2007:
 
oh, and if you want a HUGE laugh, you really have to watch that 3rd link's clip to Richard Dawkins struggling to not expunge someone from the world's gene pool. and the hilarity of the simplemindedness/obviousness of the "american evangelical"'s body language and verbal language's constructs.

that link again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5y...

it's only quick. and it's hilarious.