Strange

Odd. Unusual. Bizarre.

March 09, 2004
Martyrdom 6: Catholic Martyrs, Attis, Pious Frauds, and BDSM

It was not for beauty that the early church fathers banned the damaged from celebrating the Mass; the prelates were more concerned about the barbarous lengths to which some interpreted scripture and pagan rites in which initiates altered themselves.

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March 02, 2004
Keyboard Mystery

This is a picture of the left side of our keyboard. The right side doesn't have the same nuclear meltdown look as the left.

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November 28, 2003
Is this Your Neighbor?

Do you have a clue who this is?

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The Real Michael Jackson

Michael, who told you that you were ugly? What happened to make you feel ashamed of yourself?

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October 24, 2003
Lactation Envy?

What would Freud say about this?

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October 01, 2003
Super Rats!

Will these super rats find a way into adjacent Central Asian Republics? Will they spread into Afghanistan and force Osama Bin Laden to flee, arm-in-arm, with the U.S. High Command?

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September 18, 2003
Conservative Affirmative Action?

I actually think this is a great idea because students instinctively hate professors regardless of the tradition.

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September 15, 2003
Monumental
They should build a statue to this man. He'd make one hell of a fountain!...
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August 27, 2003
Phonography

I am speechless, to tell the truth. Utterly without comment or thought. Willing to let this stand on its own merits.

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August 10, 2003
The Little Egg Township Blob

Truth did not turn out to be stranger than fiction.

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July 29, 2003
Ammonia

I remember my first whiff of household ammonia.

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Got a Secret? Willing to Bet On It?

A deliberate flop that could be tied to Clinton is what I have my money on.

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June 26, 2003
Dana Point 2

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Don't Be Schtupid, Be a Schmartie....

NAZI: Sure. (long pause) Are you going to send me a copy of this, because it's coming out really bizarre.

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June 10, 2003
The Cat Woman

I had an online friend -- lost now in a history that got trashed in a hard disk crash about seven years ago when the net was young and people didn't blog -- who slept with seven cats every night.

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May 19, 2003
From A Nature Guide

This is an actual article from Peterson's Field Guide to Venomous Animals and Poisonous Plants.

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May 17, 2003
Hotel Lobbies

Desk clerks have no gender as far as I am concerned.

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May 13, 2003
Death of The Gingerbread Man

Even after my death I sweetened.

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April 29, 2003
Snowballing

Whispery grunts and then I stammer "Lynn. We don't share those secrets, what we did before we married."

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March 13, 2003
Republican Style Political Correctness

If I see any restaurants changing the name of the product to "Freedom Fries" I will sue them for false advertising.

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Trading Places

I should like to trade places with a woman, body for body, for a month.

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February 06, 2003
St. Rasputin!? Then St. Stalin?

It's not bleeding icons or weeping statues that make a saint. It is the good works and dedication to the ideals and methods of Christ.

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January 26, 2003
Diego's Diet (Macabre)

Woman-flesh especially delighted Rivera, who relished the legs, breasts, and brains.

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January 08, 2003
Um, Thanks Sis

How, um, thoughtful but what's the rush?

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January 02, 2003
To Be Was Not to Be

Some brilliant backer of James Bond got the bright idea of inviting a Russian theater company to come to England and present a performance of Hamlet as they had done in Moscow.

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