This one from The UK Times' Peter Brooke today.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Swine Flu: I heart XKCD
The link to cartoon strip people XKCD has been down there on the right for a while. Go today (here's the link) and check out this pearl* in situ.
Click to enlargeUPDATE: More porky sniffly fun here, as sent in by kind reader MM
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DES MOINES, IA - As the cases of Swine Flu continue to multiply around the globe, a parallel outbreak of Swine Flew is plaguing farmers and rural residents throughout the U.S.
Iowa hog farmer David Lyons described the startling phenomena. "I came out of the house about six in the morning, and I saw three of my sows floating up in the air. They'd grown wings overnight and were flying?like really big birds. I was in such a state of shock I couldn't move, but then they just flew off over that cornfield and that's the last I seen of them."
Experiences similar to Lyons' have been reported by dozens of other hog farmers throughout the Midwest.
"Half of my hogs flew off yesterday to God-knows-where," said Ted Zigler, a Kansas hog producer. "If this keeps up, I'm going to go broke. I'll have to switch to growing Tofu."
Like so many others, Lisa Conklin of rural Wisconsin said she never thought she'd see the day when pigs could fly. "I always used to say, 'Yeah, that'll happen when pigs fly. Now they are."
Conklin expressed a concern raised by many Americans since the onset of Swine Flew. "Let's just pray that monkey's don't start flying out of our asses."
Iowa hog farmer David Lyons described the startling phenomena. "I came out of the house about six in the morning, and I saw three of my sows floating up in the air. They'd grown wings overnight and were flying?like really big birds. I was in such a state of shock I couldn't move, but then they just flew off over that cornfield and that's the last I seen of them."
Experiences similar to Lyons' have been reported by dozens of other hog farmers throughout the Midwest.
"Half of my hogs flew off yesterday to God-knows-where," said Ted Zigler, a Kansas hog producer. "If this keeps up, I'm going to go broke. I'll have to switch to growing Tofu."
Like so many others, Lisa Conklin of rural Wisconsin said she never thought she'd see the day when pigs could fly. "I always used to say, 'Yeah, that'll happen when pigs fly. Now they are."
Conklin expressed a concern raised by many Americans since the onset of Swine Flew. "Let's just pray that monkey's don't start flying out of our asses."
UPDATE: I've just found out the origins of the above thanks to the author comment below. The author is John Andreini and he deserves kudos (for the record I was sent the text as stands above in a mail with no link). Here's the clicky linky to clickylink to get to John's blog.
*pearls before swine?
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Ho ho ho
Do what you must do, developed world citizen.
There was this "gifts for him under $25" link on the front page of Yahoo this morning, so I clicked on it to see what you guys will be getting up there. One that caught my eye was a company called "The Art of Shaving" that offers a pre-shave balm at $19.95.
Believe me, as long as brand names such as "The Art of Shaving" exist the USA has no idea about poverty and hasn't experienced what 'recession' means, either. So when you're out shopping between now and the 25th and you walk past that Salvation Army bucket, drop a dollar in, yeah? Don't pat yourself on the back for doing it and don't do it out of shame or pity, either. Just do it. No big deal.
There was this "gifts for him under $25" link on the front page of Yahoo this morning, so I clicked on it to see what you guys will be getting up there. One that caught my eye was a company called "The Art of Shaving" that offers a pre-shave balm at $19.95.Believe me, as long as brand names such as "The Art of Shaving" exist the USA has no idea about poverty and hasn't experienced what 'recession' means, either. So when you're out shopping between now and the 25th and you walk past that Salvation Army bucket, drop a dollar in, yeah? Don't pat yourself on the back for doing it and don't do it out of shame or pity, either. Just do it. No big deal.
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