Tag: humor

Rodents of Unusual Size?

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(I’m eating lunch at my desk, today.)

Buttercup: We’ll never succeed. We may as well die here.

Westley: No, no. We have already succeeded. I mean, what are the three terrors of the Fire Swamp? One, the flame spurt – no problem. There’s a popping sound preceding each; we can avoid that. Two, the lightning sand, which you were clever enough to discover what that looks like, so in the future we can avoid that too.

Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.’s?

Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist.

That’s what immediately popped into my head when I heard this story:

A giant rodent five times the size of a common rat has been discovered in the mountainous jungles of New Guinea.

The 1.4kg Mallomys giant rat is one of two species of mammal thought to be new to science documented on an expedition to an area described as a “lost world”.

Ah, well. I thought it was amusing. What caliber do you think would be best against R.O.U.S.’s?

UPDATE:  Original JSKit/Echo comment thread courtesy of reader Jim Hardin is available here.

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Quote of the Day.

Much as it boosts the resonance of the bathroom baritone, a shower and tiled room will elevate a pedestrian girlie-scream into an operatic shriek. I’d like to say it was a bellow of surprise and outrage, but bellows do not hit the kind of high notes required to make all the metal in the room ring in sympathy.

LabRat, from this hilarious post.

I feel for you, sister. I fucking hate spiders.

Kill ’em with fire!!!

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Really, Really Late.

This is a gunblog, after all.

I’m out of town (again), so I’m afraid posting must be light – no 7,000-word essays & such. Perusing through the stuff I’ve missed over the past several days, I ran across this post at Say Uncle. Pictures of 10/22’s? Why yes, yes I do:


(Click for full size)

Say Uncle asks, “What, you don’t name yours?” In this case, yes.

When my wife saw it after I’d swapped out the stock and barrel and mounted the way too much scope, she said “THAT’S the cute little rifle I gave you for Father’s Day?? It’s technologically barbaric!”

Meet Conan the Borg.

He’s since received a Volquartsen trigger group that cost more than the original gun. You can see the extended magazine release there in front of the trigger guard.

I told her the day she gave it to me, “Oh, love – you don’t know what you just started!”

I was right.

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Even if They Don’t….

This is too good to pass up posting:

And I’m not even a baseball fan.

UPDATE, 10/22: Sorry, Apu. Maybe next year.

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Cue Islamic Rage Boy!.

(I especially like “I am not Amish!”)

Some 25 newspapers refused to carry last Sunday’s Opus cartoon. According to Eugene Volokh, one reason given was “a sex joke a little stronger than we normally see”. With all due respect: horseshit. As a commenter put it so succinctly:

Let’s not act all innocent here. The Post is not afraid of offending someone, they are afraid of offending someone who might bomb them. Breathed has gleeful drawn caricatures of evangelical Christians for years and the Post has complacently published them, not out bigotry but out of the tacit but wholly accurate calculation that evangelicals, whatever their shortcomings, are not likely to commit terrorist acts.

And remember the South Park Muhammed episode? The one Comedy Central censored? Who haven’t Matt Stone and Trey Parker skewered? No, this is simple cowardice.

Not so, here at TSM. Here’s the offending cartoon in all its glory:

Ah, Steve Dallas is a conflicted man.

Hillary? Obama? Thompson? Iowahawk? Like Hell!

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Reynolds-Lucas ’08, baby! A good idea whose time has finally come. We need bloggers in the White House, but it ain’t Burge. Rachel Lucas is back, and Glenn never left us. It’s time to get this freight train rolling. Elect the Great in 2008! We had this all planned out in 2003! Complete with (now slightly dated) campaign poster, penned by none other than Chris Muir!

It’s time to open a campaign headquarters and start raising some money!

Since I’m so obviously link-whoring, here’s the complete list of my posts on this from 2003:

Glenn Reynolds for President!

Denizens of the Blogosphere! I Present to You the Nominees for the 2008 Administration as Selected by YOU!

ALREADY the Reynolds/Lucas Ticket has Competition!

The Reynolds/Lucas 2008 Ticket Picks Up Steam!

Elect the Great in 2008?

Ah, ancient internet history. Don’tcha love it?

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New Hires.

Received via email (thanks, Jim!)

A simple and effective problem solving technique for new hires…

Determining the right spot for the new employees.

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.

2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.

3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.

4. Then analyze the situation:

a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department.

b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing.

c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering.

d. If they a rearranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning.

e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations.

f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.

g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology.

h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.

i. If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.

j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Management.

k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.

l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.

m. If they are doing nothing, but billing you for their time, put them in Legal.

n. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.

That last one isn’t quite right. We see and hear too damned much from Congress. More correctly, if they’ve surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can’t see or hear YOU is more accurate. Still, I found it amusing.